What is ironic about the perceived future of Science

and Technology?

Done by : Joe ChuaAolunDarylCaijieWen cong

Agenda

• W - what do you mean• R – Reasons• A – Assumptions• I – Inferences • T – Truth• E – Examples, evidence• C – Counter examples

What is the perceived future ?

• World is dominated by technology and gadgets

Robots

• Technology brings more benefits than harm

• Humans will become over-reliant and over dependent on Science and Technology

What?

• Science and Technology is supposed to bring comfort for people’s lives

Instead fear and suspicion is added

• Humans constantly seek to improve their derived technology • however the more they improve the more destruction they bring• to themselves

• Supposedly convenience should be brought to our lives through• Science and Technology however many problems and troubles• are caused

Irony?

Why? • Control

• Man constantly seek to improve S&T, however as S&T progresses, humans are afraid of S&T overtaking their own intelligence and be better than humans.

• The desire to control is then amplified with the fear of their own

• creations becoming better than themselves

Assumptions• 1) Human’s inventions overtake humans in its abilities

• 2) Various inventions that are not possible now such as flying cars,

• perfect voice control etc. will surface in the future

• 3) Air pollution will worsen seen from the dark atmosphere in the

• movie

• 4) Humans will lose control over its own inventions

Inferences• 1) In the search for control, humans caused its own demise

• 2) Inventions brought about convenience but ironically causes extreme inconvenience when it fails

• 3) While we invent more things that bring good to ourselves, we are ultimately destroying ourselves due to air pollution, global warming etc.

• 4) Ironically, we humans who are not perfect can come out with inventions that are deemed perfect.

Truth

• Is what being said true?

• How do we know?

• How can we find out?

Truth

• S&T on one side has indeed improved of the quality of life of human being. The example of the analytical machine invented in the 18th century would be one of the technologies that helps human greatly.

• It is, too, a fact that S&T has its bipolar nature. While improving the quality of life, S&T also causes addiction. Human are becoming more and more addicted and dependent to S&T that to a certain extent, human could not survive without S&T.

Truth

• However, technology in reality did not reach a stage where it acquired its own intelligence, as opposed to the theory mentioned in the movie “blade-runner”. Human is still serving as the “master” between man and machine, although dependent has already grown.

• We could differentiate between the reality and the perceived future in the table below

TruthReality Perceived Future

Machines serve as servants Machines rebel, attempts to overtake Man

Machines do not have a mind of their own

Has its own state of mind

Relatively less advanced More advanced

Stage of independence Stage of elimination

Humans treat machines as mere tools of labour

Humans treat machines as servants

Examples; Evidences• Loss of Control• •In the scene when Roy entered the Tyrell

building and crushed the face of the creator of him

• •From this evidence, it can be seen that though humans are the ones who come up with the creation of these "products "of S&T as the humans have the desire to control, but unfortunately, they are not able to control them. in fact, the creation wanted dominance over human

Examples; Evidences• Causes more problems to arise

• •In the movie, the replicants are designed and made to help the humans with their work, probably bring about more convenience to the daily lives of humans

• •However, the replicants in this case turned to revolution and wanted to go against the humans, attempting to take over the power of the humans.

Examples; Evidences• Over-dependence on S&T

• •This can be seen in the flying mobile vehicles, auto-operated machines (using the voice to give instructions) and robots

• •Therefore, this supports the fact that humans are too reliant on S&T as illustrated in the percieved future in the movie. Hence, this causes S&T to increase its importance in our daily life, eventually gaining control over the human

Counter-Examples• Humanity in Replicant

• Was humanity really non-existent in replicants?

The scene when Roy kissed the replicant he loved when she was killed by Deckard showed the human in him

Last scene when Roy spared Deckard his life and pulled him up from plunging to death knowing that he himself had no longer to live and should not be selfish

Counter-Examples

• Conclusion?