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Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With the Passage of Time

Tools once helped early man increase his survivability, and they became more and
more useful as means to achieve our goals. Today, innovations in technology have
allowed us to fabricate tools of increasing complexity. As we recognize that the
most effective tools have human characteristics, such as a computer capable of
learning, we will give our tools these characteristics. If technological
innovations continue, we could actually create tools that are human, or at least
beings that challenge how we define being ‘human.' Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
and James Cameron's Terminator 2 offer two particular scenarios of futures in
which the state of technology gives us the ability to do “questionable things.”
As we give our machines selected human characteristics to make them more
efficient, they will tend to discover humanity in their own unique way, rising
above their ‘specifications' to actually become human.

By definition, tools are designed specifically for certain...

Posted by: Jennifer Valles

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