After reading about how Pixar is training the children to accept and work with non-humans, see http://bit.ly/l3CSrq
I figured I'd comment on it..
Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and I've seen this trend ever since I read Karel Capek's R.U.R and every Isaac Asimov robot book I could get my little grubby 12 year old hands upon.
These and many other authors and now PIXAR and the game makers are giving us all examples of other creatures as not just helpers, but as co-equals or superior entities that will help us solve our problems. Be it IBM winning Jeopardy, and then moving into the medical diagnosis field, or autonomous drones in sea, air, and land, helping our military, or the numerous spacecraft [robots?] heading off to explore our possible future worlds. How many times has your car reminded you that you left the lights on between 2000 and 2015? And how many times have you totally forgotten to turn them off on the newer models, only to realize that it can take care of itself, and they will go off in 10 minutes or less.
From Special Forces Dogs, to future designer bugs, soon we'll have creatures that we can communicate to / from at a much higher level that was ever dreamed of a century ago. And, what will our children's reaction be to 'Monsters' who arrive at our planet to say "Hi !" Will they shoot them, like we did to Michael Rennie aka Klatu ? Just remember, Gort was the one in ultimate command. Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
Good Luck, Kids... I leave you a screwed up planet to fix.
- Gramps
I figured I'd comment on it..
Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and I've seen this trend ever since I read Karel Capek's R.U.R and every Isaac Asimov robot book I could get my little grubby 12 year old hands upon.
These and many other authors and now PIXAR and the game makers are giving us all examples of other creatures as not just helpers, but as co-equals or superior entities that will help us solve our problems. Be it IBM winning Jeopardy, and then moving into the medical diagnosis field, or autonomous drones in sea, air, and land, helping our military, or the numerous spacecraft [robots?] heading off to explore our possible future worlds. How many times has your car reminded you that you left the lights on between 2000 and 2015? And how many times have you totally forgotten to turn them off on the newer models, only to realize that it can take care of itself, and they will go off in 10 minutes or less.
From Special Forces Dogs, to future designer bugs, soon we'll have creatures that we can communicate to / from at a much higher level that was ever dreamed of a century ago. And, what will our children's reaction be to 'Monsters' who arrive at our planet to say "Hi !" Will they shoot them, like we did to Michael Rennie aka Klatu ? Just remember, Gort was the one in ultimate command. Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
Good Luck, Kids... I leave you a screwed up planet to fix.
- Gramps
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