Obviously Raven sees the future, but this particular gif makes me think of Precrime's attitude toward the criminals because of the visions of the precogs. It doesn't matter if they did what they might have been about to do - they just have to deal with it.
When I came across the passage about dogs on page 40, reading how Lauren describes them in their different roles in society really got me thinking. Specifically when she said "Rich people still keep dogs, either because they like them or because they use them to guard estates..." (Butler 40). In my head I was picturing the classic "Beware Of Dog" signs that people put on their gates and doors, but then y mind jumped to a certain movie. I am sure we all know this movie and will know what I am talking about once I say the same, The Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games there are wild vicious dogs that are sent after Katniss and Peta. In Hunger Games the districts do not own dogs as pets, but the Capitol (where the rich people are) does have dogs that are domesticated (if I am remembering correctly). I thought this might be a stretch of a connection, but it seemed worth sharing anyway.
We had a lot of class disscussion about caves of steel about what may or may not make a robot be human like.
It kinda got me thinking, do robots even want to like human, or is that just a desire we superimpose upon them? Maybe they disire something else entirely.
Side note: I am going to use Dr. M-B’s iPad to show a Short video from a Netflix series I binged over the weekend. By coincide Tim’s post is an episode from the same series, it’s very good and I encourage everyone to check it out. I would even go so far as to say Dr. M-B, you might even consider putting an episode on your syllabus in future renditions of this course.
In the five-minute video we watched Yogurt take over as an all-knowing entity and claim Martial Law before setting the humans up in a paradise. I have some discussion questions to get us on track into thinking about how this Utopia can be plot, and some other things to ask yourself.
·Though the Yogurt promised to keep the Constitutional Rights of everyone that stayed in Ohio, would the Yogurt declaring Martial Law be seen as an autonomous or constitutional?
·Based on what we saw before the Yogurt departed Earth, would you say that the utopia relied on communal or individual power?
·In our own government in present day, would a breakdown like the one shown in the video be necessary before we could create our own utopia or do something incredible like eradicate the national debt?
·Do you believe the humans in the video have enjoyed living in utopia so much that they will continue to follow the guidelines the Yogurt has created? What is their solution? Was the Yogurt's society a utopia or a dystopia?
(Love Death and Robots Ep. 6 "When the Yogurt Took Over")
"Not as long as we don't understand what makes our own brains tick. Not as long as things exist that science can't measure. What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.
"A robot's brain must be finite or it can't be built. It must be calculated to the final decimal place so that it has an end" (Asimov, 221).
I was immediately reminded of the remix "Seize the Day." Robin Williams' lovely speech in Dead Poets Society perfectly encapsulates this passage, and the song's overall message is one of tenacity, change, and strength in one's identity and beliefs. Daneel expressly tells Baley that he's exceeded and defied the Spacers' experiment due to his stubbornness, although his willingness to learn and listen enables him a growth in character to promote change and pioneering. Truly, I just think that this song, when applied in a context like this, helps answer and assuage the common debate on what keeps us separate from robots/androids and makes humanity its own unique state of being that cannot be usurped or dismissed.
After starting this novel I wanted to see if someone had created a Caves of Steel comic because in my head I picture a dramatic, cheesy, black and white detective comic strip but instead I found this. Though this is pretty different than what I was expecting, I thought it was fun and wanted to share it.
Inspired by the book, I think the lyrics do a good job of summarizing John's experience in the brave new world. It gives the sense of how different the world is in comparison to his expectations. Echoing the first lines at the end also brings the story full circle: some prior society had to die in order for the brave new world to arise, then that world ends up causing John's demise.
Since the beginning of this book explored the physical aspects of "Herland" and the women that reside there I wanted to see if I could find a drawing or map that outlined the country. In my search, I couldn't find what I was looking for but instead, I found this image from an alternate book cover that I thought was really interesting. I really like how this cover depicts the women as integrated into or almost part of the land itself.
Since Book 2 opens with an explanation of the geography of Utopia, I thought it would be interesting to find an artist's interpretation of what the island might look like. There have been a handful of designs over the years, but I think this one by Andrew Simoson, who applied calculus to the descriptions, might be a more accurate interpretation.
