Module 10

This story is about a robot named Joe. It is amazing that in 1946 they were able to predict some things that robots/computers can actually do for us today. I love the part where they are asking Joe for answers to questions about killing your wife, or getting away with drinking and he is able to give them a response. Is that not what we use the internet for today? Anytime that you have a question and need and answer you can pull up the internet on your computer or even the robot in your pocket called a “cell phone” and search for a result. You will be given a wide variety of answers and solutions to your questions and problems. Joe is even able to store personal information about accounts and so forth, much like computers and used today. That is how society functions, relying on technology to store information for us so that there is less and less that we actual have to remember. Technology can even track our mistakes to help us from creating errors or leaving steps undone. I think that the difference is that our computers don’t have a mind of their own and they can’t control things without us asking them too. We are still able to keep limits on them, so that our lives can stay secure. I believe that because of technology we rely a lot on it. Without it a lot of people couldn’t get through their daily lives since that are entwined in our jobs, schools and personal lives. They are quite helpful in helping us figure out key points in our lives, and making sure that we have immediate answers. If you aren’t able to do something or have never done a certain thing on your own before you can ask your computer, much like Joe and find out the best and easiest way to do it. Without technology we wouldn’t be able to share the things that we learn so easily. I think that technology is both hurting and improving our way of doing things. It hurts us because instead of people trying to think outside the box and come up with a solution on their own, they rely on others having already found a solution and simply copying it. I believe though that people who lack creativity are still able to learn a lot more than they would be able to otherwise because now they can read or watch how it is done and figure it out on their own. I believe that Joe is a pretty good example of just a few things that computers have done for us, although he has his flaws, he had some key points in prediction about technology.