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Robots:
Generally, 'm nota fan of robot movies, but I'm sure that technology is and will be
increasingly essencial in our lives.
In the few movies | have seen (only transformes's movies) robots present a good
side towards humanty, and in some point they defend humans from bad things or
extraterrestrial.
| think these films are very popular because they present us maybe a near future,
and it's interesting to imagine what our life would be with help of robots.
And although | don't believe that robots will one day dominate the earth, but |
think scientist should be more careful with artificial Intelligence, because maybe it
would affect us in the sense of losing "humanity”.