Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Paper Topics

Ok, so what I am currently batting around are a couple ideas. Neither are fully furnished yet.

1) Comparison of humans vs robots vs androids and the blurry line that exists between them. Also maybe analyzing/looking at why this line exists primarily due to human fear of being bested/defeated

2) Human fear driving sci-fi. Many stories in SciFi are crafted out of the things humans fear. Supreme aliens with exceptionally better technology coming and destroying us all and/or conquering the world; the world being destroyed by some event (like an asteroid); human technology getting out of hand and thus destroying us all (robots, AI, weapons, etc).

I just woke up with this one this morning, so it is really uncrafted and unfinished.

Anyone got some comments or ideas for either of these?

3 comments:

  1. Both sound neat so I guess it'd be whichever one you like more/think can write more on

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  2. Choose number one. I would be writing about the same thing if it weren't similar to my first topic. I'm trying to explore new ground. I would expect it to be a thought provoking paper.

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  3. They are both really interesting topics. I think number 2 is my choice because I have noticed it in the stories we've read, but it's not something that we have talked about in class that much. I think it's a really fascinating idea to explore.

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