Exercise 2 : reflection

The Future Doesn’t Need All of Us The movie, A.1: Artificial Intelligence (2001) is new to me
despite of the year it was filmed. A.I. The film is shot with a robot, a childlike android specially
equipped with the ability to love.
A robot boy designed to feel human emotions is currently working on a journey of discovery.
As I watch the film, I’ve had questions running around in my head. Such as, the humans were
able to accept advance technologies like the advance style or designs on cars, but why not on
robots? If they can normalize different advance technologies in the future, why don’t they
normalize the robots? The question “Why does the future need us?” shouldn’t be all about
humans. The future needs humans who will be willing to accept technological advances in the
future. There is a scene in the film that some people were so happy to destroy the robots. Just
because those robots don’t feel emotions, they got to be destroyed for the show. But since
David plead to not to be destroyed, he was released. The other people who were at the show
threw the packs to the head of the show and gave him hate from all of its viewers instead of
throwing the packs to the robots (David and Joe). The future needs people like them, the
viewers of the Flesh Fair. Another example of human’s brutality to the robots was when the
group of kids were not able to accept the differences of David. Those kids provoke David
leading to David and Martin fell to the pool and Martin being drowned under the water. This
scene led to Monica and Henry to give David back to the company he was made, cybertronics.
But Monica cannot bring herself to return David to Cybertronics. She pauses on the way and
releases him into a forest, where he can join other free-range mechas. Does the future need
humans? Yes, because when time comes that the world will be invaded by aliens, they will still
need humans to know what happened in the past. In the movie, for 2,000 years, as above them
an ice age descends and humans become extinct. David was rescued by a group of impossibly
slender beings that might be aliens, but are apparently very advanced androids. For them,
David is an incalculable treasure: "He is the last who knew humans.” With the memories of
David, he had in the past, the aliens were able to download all of the memories David has.

In conclusion, the future needs us because of our past, but apart from that there is no need
for humans in the future. However, the Earth doesn’t need us. Earth lived for a very long time
even without humans. So, the earth would still survive without the presence of humans. We are
the ones that need Earth or a world like Earth, so that we can live and continue to exist.