Cyborg

noticeably be three forms of science fiction; ‘stories of travel through space (to other worlds, planets, stars), stories of travel through time (into the past or into the future) and stories of imaginary technologies (machinery, robots, computers, cyborgs and cyber culture)’ (VIII, Roberts, Adam. 2006) it is through these three categories that science fiction can be critically looked into specifically, via its mise-en-scene, and narrative, to associate itself to one of the three categories. For…

60-Minutes ran a feature segment on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). My knowledge of computer technology is below average, consisting mainly of checking email and surfing the internet. As most people, I knew computers were taking over many jobs once done by humans, and had seen footage of auto industry robots assembling automobiles. I remember seeing video of a warehouse with floor computers delivering boxes from one location to the next. A.I. is different. While watching this segment with…

After taking the dogs home, Tulla and Rex walked to the Blue District and rode an ascending elevator car to Level 26: Waterworks & Mech 2. This was the same stop Rex had taken when he tried to get to the Tesla Lab the first time. After a short distance, the hallway branched in two directions, like a turkey wishbone. Approaching the divergence, Rex saw a knife and spoon attached to the wall's corner and a fork embedded in the floor … _a fork in the road_ … a literal pun he'd missed while…

Blade Runner: Cops and Monsters After thoughtful consideration and research, I can call Blade Runner a [year] masterpiece. The movie definitely sets itself apart from other films of the time not only because of its particular story and eccentric characters, but also because it aligns in its composition two distinctive types of genre, Science Fiction and Film Noir. After watching the movie and discussing it in class, what caught my attention about the film was the fact that its composition and…

Introduction The objective of this paper is for me to demonstrate an understanding of my past life experiences through the information that I have learned in this course. I have chosen to focus on multiple meaningful experiences in my life. Some experiences from my past may not appear to be bright and sunny; however my ophthalmologist assured me that all of my rods and cones were in good working order. “Ha-ha” Everything that I have gone through has made me the consciously aware woman that I…

Have you ever been scolded for playing games like “Grand Theft Auto” or “Call of Duty”or had to deal with someone saying playing those games are bad for you. Maybe you 've had someone restrict you from playing a certain game. However no one pays attention to the positives that they can bring. Generally people focus on the negative because games are easy to obtain for the younger generation, also based on the type of genre people are most interested in, like shooters, which is considered…

Presumably your self-awareness begins at conception, and thus there is self-awareness even at the cellular level. Now if you, and here 'you' could be a plant or a microbe, respond to stimuli (external or internal), then you are self-aware, albeit awareness of self comes in degrees - a mammal is more self-aware than a cactus even though both can respond to stimuli. If you respond to stimuli in a way that's not predictable by the laws of physics then you are self-aware. A rock cannot be a 'you'…