Blog#5

[chiholi]

During this week’s lectures, we spent most of the class time watching “2001”, a science fiction movie that was based on this “Monolith” that was this symboling of technology that humans saw since the dawn of man. They had a few sequences with several different times. It began with early civilization as they portrayed it and then it went onto the

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[tanvirlatif]

I agree with you in that we should stay in control of the things that we create. I think that is the point of most of these sci-fi movies and books. It seems to warn that making something more powerful than us and giving it power over us makes us vulnerable. All the great sci-fi books and movies show a powerful machine go bad and that is probably why. Machines and computers are great resources when they are used properly and cautiously. But they should not be in control of our lives because our lives should be in our own hands.