This episode of the Twilight Zone which was written by Ray Bradbury for importance. This episode dealt with a family who is need of another parent. The father, only single now is trying his best to fulfill the role of raising his three children. When the aunt expresses concern that his way of raising the children is wrong. He expresses concern until the son mentions about a company called, I sing the Body Electric. It was of course in a fiction magazine that he had laying in his room. So the father seeing potential of having a robot raising his kids while he is away. For he does want whats best for them enters the store. To only discover a salesmen telling them that they can create an individual with preference that they want. The choices are in order of presentation: eyes, ears, arms, and then hair. Three of the four sounds interested and so they create the perfect appearance of the grandma. It turns out that daughter does not like the grandmother for a really weird reason. She equated her father passing away as running away. So that feeling then equated to the grandma and that caused problems. She of course ran away and so the grandmother went after with the father after her and the son and daughter after him. When the girl was about to cross a street without looking. A van came and so the grandmother pushed her and sacrificed herself. Per say, in the most horrible presentation of someone getting hit by a car. She made it through and convinced the daughter that she would not die. So through the years of their life they were raised by her. Through the topics of education, languages, mathematics, etc. Towards the end of the film where the children are being sent to college. The grandmother expresses sadness that she must leave and tells them that she will be recycled. Odd idea to work with but nonetheless an interesting episode to watch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXHczjOg06wBoaz ( Almog "Levitates" a superconductor ) To Begin, this subject states that levitation does not exist but Quantum Levitation does. For you see in a nutshell of Quantum Levitation. A superconductor has exactly zero resistance to electricity and expulsion to electric fields. For of course, when it is cooled down of course. You see, one of the properties indicated through researching this strange phenomenon. It will hold itself or lock itself from what the video was stating within the magnetic field. Simply, It is levitating itself in air and does not like to move. For the individual was saying it would be losing energy because of its movement. Yeah it will lock itself and move around wherever the magnets are located at but the energy of it moving itself is shorter than it staying in one place. Now the things the individual was pointing out was of course what it can carry. Towards the very end of the ten minute video does he talk about what humans can do with this Quantum Levitation. Just a 3 millimeter thick 3" diameter of a disc can hold upto 1000 kilograms of weight. Essentially it can hold a car if interested in something to relate to. But the possibilities we can do with such a thing is amazing and if only we could invest more into this Quantum Levitation. Now something worth mentioning about this though is besides scientist and engineers are all hyped over the possibilities. We the common people are excited at what it is because levitation has been proven true. Just find it interesting to mention and nothing more. The people of society at what it can do and we the common people see it as a really cool trick. This video is even more interesting to link because of trying to wrap your mind around a 540 degree shape race track using Quantum Levitation. Will admit the sound could be muted but what it is showing is amazing in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxror-fnOL4 ,We are coming in the day and age of Artificial Intelligence being able to understand things such as we do. But one of the most favorite games that we all like to play is Robot or Human. Pretty simple concept, but the premise is intriguing. Something is read aloud to you and through that, you have to guess is it either made by a robot or human. The difficulty of telling if it is Robot or human just keeps increasing the difficulty of itself. The problem with it though is the fact that robots do not have experience. They are very analytical and because of that. These Robots are being fed millions of poetry to only connect the dots of the ideas. Using similar words or rhymes that are being repeated over and over again. Many of the poems created by a Robot emphasises rhyming and nothing more.But the problem we are facing as of this moment is what is poetry? Is it built on experience or allowing the reader express feelings for it? I do not know and others as well do not know but it scares me. It scares me that we are becoming that much closer to this and we are not ready for this. We say we are but truly we are not. Poetry is something that humans have a gift because of using words to express art. Robots only see it as an analytical idea using other works to create something similiar. That is what I learned about in the difference between robot poetry and human poetry.
Imagine a world where once humans were not meant to decrease the metabolism rate through natural occurrences. Can now do such a thing through a lethal compound. Hydrogen Sulfide, the same chemical that was meant to kill soldiers on No Man's Land. I cannot imagine what this new discovery could reveal in future references. In fact, something trivial was that Einstein's best friend was the one who imagined a war of Chemicals. He insisted that he could weaponize Hydrogen Sulfide into such a thing. And he did indeed create such a thing that men feared of during the war. But onto the more concerning matter of how this video has has help me understand Science Fiction. I learned that everything is a double edged sword and we cannot deny the usage of this. Maybe that is what Science Fiction does, acts like a double edged sword. It may appear good on one side while another it isn't lovely. For these are the things I've learned through this video.
The Next Human Species is a race that can choose its order of appearance of abilities. They will be able to use cybernetics to enhance themselves with seeing, hearing, tasting, and feeling. But soon after, they will start to use Biology to enhance themselves into something more. Maybe the whole technology sticking out of them will be viewed as the old ways. But the idea of changing the human course by the DNA. That is something that you and I are afraid of. The Next Human Species will have the technology and understanding of how to change themselves into something more than what the average human is today. But the promises that you and I is truly something to consider. The Blind being able to see, the Deaf being to hear. Those that have neuro problems being able to feel objects. Those that cannot taste being able to have the ability to taste. This is such a promising thing to where we all forget something. THis frightens me because then everyone will able to only view the world in a certain way. No one will be able to tell what it means to be blind. They will be able to see the world in only one way and nothing more. I just worry that in process of instead of improving technology on everything around us. They will instead focus on themselves and become something more than human. That when the writers or those that dream of us. They will not understand the connections of us. These are my comments and concerns of this idea
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