Did anyone else see Surrogates this week? I saw it on Friday. I thought it was really good, and left me thinking about how something like that would affect the world. For those who haven't seen it, the surrogates are robots that you can control with your thoughts. The owner sits at home hooked up to a machine and thinks about what he wants to do, and the robot does it.
I can see how useful that technology would be. If you sent them into war instead of real people, no soldier would ever die. People with disabilities would have a chance to live a normal life. It would take the danger out of everything. But would it be as fun? It's not really living if all you're doing is sitting in a chair thinking about it. Would societies still advance if everyone was using a robot to live for them?
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ReplyDeleteI havent seen this movie yet, but I want to. This system wouldn't really change anything besides giving people the ability to enjoy masochism. By this I mean, you can kill "yourself" and see what its like, you can kill "others" with no penalty. You can enjoy whatever pleasure you want, with no penalty.
ReplyDeleteHowever, what stops a surrogate from barging into someone's real house and killing them as they are in their chair. Or war: One side wins, one side loses. The winning side then occupies the losing side and you basically have Nazi extermination where the surrogates go into houses and just kill the real person.
I personally think society would just fall. You would basically remove everything that is human, and people would abuse it to no end.
And then the bottom line is, how would this work? What about the kids? Do you just stick them in a chair the moment their born? How do you feed them? That kinda thing...
But hey... who wouldnt want to have the ability to be anyone and do anything :-P
i saw it this weekend. when a couple people were talking about the cyborg-android-robot idea, i thought about this movie. i guess surrogates would be considered androids because they don't have a human part.
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