I do apologize,
I realize that it is now Tuesday morning, but I just recently (within the past hour) realized what all blogging assignments encompassed. I didn't quite understand what all we were suppose to have in and by which dates (but I now have them all in my google calendar, so maybe I can keep track...).
My major pop-culture run-in of the week (ok, last week) occurred while watching Wall-E with my guy. It struck me that we are living in an age wherein it is plausible that two computers could manage a love match! In fact, developers were not only able to convince audience members to empathize with the robots' simulated emotions, but also completely ignore the fear of what might happen if robots were able to think and feel, and essentially outsmart the human race (now this is not to say that can speak for all audience members, but one has to assume that, since there has been a large and positive response to the animation--).
When I was a youngster, it was innovative to create a (Disney) world in which cats could sing and have adventures across Paris, even learning to play musical instruments and communicate with one another to plot revenge against (in my opinion) deserving humans.
Does this mean our age is extending the grasp of our imaginations, or are we simply reapplying old techniques and thought processes to modern day relevancies?
In short, is asking children to believe robots can feel more, less, or equally as far fetched as asking them to believe toys or singing cats can do the same?
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