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Week 3 Blog
Printing Press
           Throughout time, society has always welcomed industrialization has an ever-changing positive development to enhance people’s lives. Ever since the creation of the printing press by the Chinese and the introduction of it 400 years later by Johannes Gutenberg, there has been constant development. One major development was in the area of robotics, specifically the introduction of assembly lines, most famously started by Harrison Ford to make automobiles more accessible to the average person. Professor Vesna explained that industrialization came to the point of robotics which is found in almost everything we do related to manufacturing. This is a rapidly growing field because robots are becoming more and more intelligent.





Assembly Line
       
           In the movie, Blade Runner, we can see just how powerful advanced robotic evolution can be. This movie is a direct contrast about our beliefs that the growing intelligence of robotics is positive but this fictional movie shows another side. The replicants in the movie are sophisticated androids that are equal in strength and emotion to their human creators. This shows the dangers that could occur in the future if robots become too intelligent and some people even fear that in real life, robots could end up becoming more powerful than the human race.

Blade Runner



References:

Relating the Rapidly Changing Present to the Distant Past as Far as Book History is Concerned. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. 
 
"Blade Runner (1982) - Synopsis." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. 
 
Gutenberg Printing Press Letters. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. 

Vesna,Victoria. “Lecture Part 1,2, 3.” Robotics + Art. 21 April 2017. Lecture.
 
PBS. Public Broadcasting Service, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. 

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