Paul Christian Tagalog 01/31/2023

BS Arch 2

Film Watching

The Need for Us

With the advancement of technology, mankind has achieved tremendous

achievements as humanity strives to improve the environment that we live in. It has
improved communication, transportation, health-care, and many other aspects that
improve the quality of human life. But with this advancement comes great
responsibility as nowadays, it is tough to imagine a life without technology. Both people
and technology are co-independent and co-exist with each other. Without technology,
people’s lives would be very difficult to imagine and without people, there would be no
one to maintain the conditions of technology. Now the question is “Are we needed in
such a world, where technology is now acting in place of us?. What is left for us to do?.”
In the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, mankind has surpassed the limits of technology
and has begun manufacturing machines that are programmable and capable of
substituting in human activities known as mechanical robots. Their biggest achievement
is a mechanical robot that is capable of emotion, programmed to feel love towards their
handlers until the day that they stop functioning. A scene in the movie that somehow
represents the boundaries between us and these mechanical robots, is the circus scene,
where Johnson, the circus master, is booed from the crowd. He was about to destroy
David, a mechanical robot boy that is programmed capable of feeling emotion just like a
little boy. Even though the audience of the circus despised robots, they listened to the
cries of David, feeling scared and asking for help. This answers the question of the need
of humans in the future. We are the only beings capable of doubt and are capable of
judging. Machines judge and act based on logic, on the programming that is embedded
unto them. We humans feel emotion towards any being, whether it be another human
being or a robot, and this feeling is limitless. If machines were the only being left in the
world acting on their own, there wouldn’t be any life. The world will become black and
white, no emotions, just the smell of oil and rust.