purpose is to establish a Utopia which human is no longer needed for work. For example, Kelly produces a chart to maintain his assertion, which he emphasizes machine can not only performs better than human, it operates task that human can never accomplish. In order to create an effective argument, Kelly provides many examples; for instance, how machine produces more efficient, more reliable, and more unimaginable methods to solve a problem, to exemplify the greatness of robots. All of Kelly’s…
baseball games” (Kelly 306, 307) are jobs which humans will never be able to do due to high levels of precision needed and other characteristics that human bodies do not have. In addition, artificial intelligence has been already incorporated in machines; therefore, robots will have more abilities to perform any job or activity. Baxter is a great example of this intelligence; this smart robot can perceive humans, look around, learn processes by looking and perform them perfectly. Many other…
birthday cake and Mom prepared homemade pizzas, but it was always Dad’s present that I anticipate the most. By the time I tore open the gift, I did not even know that it was a beginning of everything especially for my passion towards machine. It was a model of complex machine racecar set. I shoot an “excited” look to my father and smile, oblivious to the fact that this gift would change my life forever. That night, I decided to give the set a try. I flipped open the manual and just stared at the…
the self-service checkout line at the grocery store is an example of self-service, as well as pumping your own gas at the gas station. Shadow work is becoming more and more popular as the innovation of technology becomes more advanced. “Robots”, or machines have started taking over our daily lives and we don’t even realize the negativity it is forcing upon us. Americans have become more reliant on technology and themselves, instead of other human beings. People are…
Henry David Thoreau once said, “ Men have become tools of their tools.” This meaning that we have become part of the technology we have created and must create a relationship with the machines. This relationship will help us move forward and be more innovative. We have read Why Robots Will and Must Take Our Jobs by Kevin Kelly and Blue Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose, these two readings have made realize how much technology and humans can accomplish together. Author Kevin Kelly’s argument about…
freedom from any attacks whether they be foreign or domestic. However, there are still individuals such as Katie McGinty, publisher of “Gun Violence”, who is pro gun control and believes that there should be more regulations on guns and less access to them. The first point brought about by Katie McGinty states that in the last year alone 14,000 people were killed by guns in the United States, which roughly estimates to about 38 deaths committed by firearms daily. One can argue that this death…
Headline: Soldier Single-Handedly Takes Out Two Enemy Machine Gun Squads Like most days, C.R.S. spent his day patrolling on foot through the hilly regions near Kandahar. C.R.S. had joined the military as a sniper, and he spent most of his time abroad. During his overwatch, his group was responsible for tracking suspicious activity. According to the latest intelligence reports, there were enemy combatants somewhere in the area. As C.R.S. was continuing his routine patrol, the sound of…
Gun Control in the United States The United States has the most guns per capita in the world at 88.8 guns per 100 people, or 270,000,000 total guns (“Gun” par. 1). Today in the United States, gun control is becoming more and more of a controversial topic. The fact that we have so many guns in our country is quite alarming, especially when you consider the amount of accidents and mass shootings that have happened in the past years. Between 1982 and 2012 there were 62 mass shootings in the United…
relationships with all crew members which results in jobs to be completed ahead of schedule and with detailed precision Maintaining an excellent safety record through the philosophy that no job will be done if it cannot be done safely Lathe, milling machines, radial drill presses, surface grinders C.E.D. Compressed Air Inc. May 2013 – August…
In 1909 E.M. Forster wrote the ground-breaking short story “The Machine Stops”, it foretold of a dystopian society where mankind entrusted itself to a machine which took care of al their wants and needs, and ultimately lead to their demise.…