Man Vs. Machine

In today’s multicultural society, technology has become a necessity among human beings. Technology has evolved over the course of many years and as a result, it has started to become one with life itself. Humans have started to show signs of becoming more like machines. People are becoming more reliant and dependent on their technology and its starting to control how they live their lives. At the same time, technology has grown to the point that it has started to show characteristics of real life human beings. With the result of humans becoming more like machines and vise versa, humans are becoming more threaded with their technology that it becomes an extension of their bodies, inventions such as Siri (interactive app for the iPhone) have assimilated themselves as human beings, scientists are trying to implement genuine human emotions into robots, and artificial intelligence is being questioned to be smarter than humans.

Man is now a machine: 

Dependency that humans have for machinery has increased tremendously of the last 50 years and we have transformed into the digital generation. Humans are so threaded with technology that it has become an extension of their bodies. Advances in technology have changed the way individuals learn, communicate, and survive. It is understandable to use technology for an advantage because it is no longer necessary to know how to spell or go to the library to research a topic. Unfortunately with new found technology individuals are always staying connected to a machine which causes robotic characteristics to be absorbed in ones personalities. The youth that has been born and raised in this digital time is most effected and feels the most dependency to the new found technology. In the short story The Veldt there is insight to this theory when the mechanical play room becomes the most important aspect of the young children's lives. "They live for the nursery"(9). There is a lot of attachment individuals feel for their phones, computers, and iPods. These devices are closely tethered to our emotions and make us have one-dimensional personalities similar to robots. 

Machine Transforming into Man:
  

A factor that leads into the transition making machine become man are inventions from the iWorld, including iPhones and iPods. More specifically, the creation of apps that make humans more dependent on technology, more specifically the birth of the popular interactive Siri. Siri is a so called robot who fulfills commands at a voice command, causing humans to rely on it instead of human instinct. For example, in Andrew Sullivan's "Society is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld," Sullivan analyzes the atmosphere in New York City and compares it to its past. His observations have lead him to believe that the so called iWorld and its Apple products have taken over the real world; people were so preoccupied with "the little white buds" (iPods) that he did not believe that the atmosphere of New York City was not as restless, chaotic, and hectic as it usually is. With the evolution of these and many other inventions, not only have humans become more lazy and dependent on the use of technology, but robots have assimilated themselves as humans with its dependency.

One goal that scientists have in robot technology is to incorporate genuine human emotions into robots. Although the technological advances of robots have become human like and efficient, they cannot truly be equipped with the emotions of a human being and scientists are portraying the idea that the human mind can just be created into a robot, but in reality it is not possible. Emotions and reactions are programmed into the robots themselves. They do not act on their own. They designed to show an “emotion” when confronted with a specific interaction. Even though that may be, the emotions that robots seem to mimic are not genuine; they are programmed in their circuitry.

Artificial intelligence outsmarting humans is a possibility that
should not be ignored in any serious thinking about the future. This
essay talks about the case for thinking that human-level machine
intelligence might appear in the future. People around the world have fears of this topic, but it's out of the question that such thing will never occur. Humans are the master mind behind of it all,without our complex thoughts these would have never been made. It's not a secret that people will intend to make a machine with human features, but it will never happen. A living organism is not something man made, therefore, technology will never prevail in society.

All things considered, technology has become a fundamental and vital part of human existence. It has come to a point where humans have become non-existent to the world if they aren’t in the presence of technology. In a similar way, machines have become more developed over the years and in result, they have started to become more lifelike. In conclusion, With the result of  humans becoming more like machines and vise versa, humans are becoming more threaded with their technology that it becomes an extension of their bodies, inventions such as Siri (interactive app for the iPhone) have assimilated themselves as human beings, scientists are trying to implement genuine human emotions into robots, and artificial intelligence is being questioned to be smarter than humans.

What am I Going To Do Without My Cell Phone?

Comedy Time - Business Humorist: Attached to Technology

In this short comical video a man explains how humans relate losing their phones to losing a loved one. This is very similar to the concept of The Veldt when the children did not want their parents to kill the nursery. http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm. The technology around us has become an extension of minds and is just as alive as our parents. 

Human Brain Function With and Without Technology

"Kord Campbell sits at his desk as he views 3 monitors, a laptop, iPad and an iPhone. Scientists say heavy multitasking can change how people think and behave."

"SAN FRANCISCO – When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it.

Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: A big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up.

The message had slipped by him amid an electronic flood: two computer screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web browser and the computer code he was writing.

While he managed to salvage the $1.3 million deal after apologizing to his suitor, Campbell continues to struggle with the effects of the deluge of data. Even after he unplugs, he craves the stimulation he gets from his electronic gadgets. He forgets things like dinner plans, and he has trouble focusing on his family" (The Observer).
       
        In an article published in The Observer  it tells the story of a man who is overly attached to his technology and who is constantly multitasking between his various devices. Scientist believe that because his mind is constantly multitasking he his unable to filter what is important information. Even without the technology his brain is unable to keep constant concentration. His wife, Brenda, complains, “It seems like he can no longer be fully in the moment.” Humans have become too overly attached to devices and feel ultimately lost without them. Because humans are constantly plugged into machine are race is becoming more robotic.

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Apps: A Substitute for Human Labor

Have apps really become a substitute for human labor? The answer, yes. Apps nowadays by the popular iPhone have been mostly created due to humans becoming too lazy to do their own work in which they can just download an app and have it do the work for them. For example, one of the most useful apps this man talks about it the "Mobile Mouse," which has the ability to act as a mouse on any nearby computer screen. Is it really that much harder to just go up to your computer and use the mouse? Has society really gotten so dependent on the iWorld that they can just expect gadgets like these to make life easier for them, how apps actually act as slaves at the owner's control? A thousand times, yes.

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"

David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans. Even though they are mimicking human movements, It's still not genuinely coming from the robot itself. All of it is still programmed into their circuitry.

No Limits with Siri

Again, we take a look at the ever popular Siri. A youtuber with the username UtterlyApple plays around with Siri and asks it a myriad of questions. When he came up with his observations, he noticed that Siri would respond to any question he threw at it with a voice that substituted as a human voice. By doing so, he got clear, vivid, and complete sentences from Siri, proving that Machines are becoming more like a Man (or in Siri's case, a woman.)

Part 2 Humans & Machines - BBC Explorations | Storyteller Media

Explorations this time examines the marvels and mysteries of the human mind and body. From brain implants to artificial intelligence, this video explores the complexity and achievements of the human mind. Making intelligent computers appears to be within our grasp, but if they are to realize their full potential, then they will have to become more than inanimate boxes.