Saturday, March 10, 2012

Module 10

I was intrigued by the similarities that Joe had with today’s Siri.
Today if you are an owner of a Iphone4s you can simply ask your phone,
Siri lets you use your voice to send messages, Schedule meetings, Place phone calls and face to face calls. Siri with understand what you say and knows what your mean, and even talks back.
Although Joe was much more willing to give us dumb humans the  answers to every question that we could think up to ask.
Siri will also answer any question that we could think up to ask. However, in the real world, us dumb humans know that just because we have the directions on how to do a illegal activity, dos not allow us to follow them.
We now have the face to face, and skyp. All you have to do is have a camera or apple product and you can push a couple of keys and speak face to face with anyone else who also has one.
It would be nice if there was someone to hold responsible for the information that is out on the World Wide Web. In the story, all they had to do was call the logic services to shut it down. I believe that even today there have been husbands that have drove around fretting about the thought of their wife going online and finding out about their dirty little secrets. We are all very aware that once the information is out, it can not be removed.
In the story the wife, wanted to get as much dirt on the neighbors before the flow of information was shut down. Today, we have more access to everyone’s dirt that it is almost a morbid fixation. We waste a mind boggling amount of time and energy in this current time, fixated on judging the actions of other people. In both realities it serves no purpose.

1 comment:

  1. That is an interesting take, and one that I did not think of as in relation to Siri. The story of the robot and the similarities to siri make sense, I think it is a very good analogue.

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