Friday, March 4, 2011

Surrogates

In this movie the robots are just controlled using minds and the person who controlled it are just sitting at home. They use the robot to go to work, date, party, etc. Over time most people become fully dependent on them and it becomes the societal norm that everyone they see is a surrogate. They act as a buffer for physical things that could hurt a person. But won't hurt the operator because they are not physically there to get hurt. As a result crime and especially murder doesn't happen any more, because the operator can't get hurt. The movie warns us against letting technology get too far ahead of us and also tells that mankind relying too heavily on machines. It also carries a warning against mankind being too reliable on technology as a means of communicating and us losing the personal touch and not truly or physically living.

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