Technology's Taking Over

We think technology has come so far already since the 1930's when the computer was invented but "Be Right Back" shows that we are no where near where technology plans to be. I agreed with Martha in the beginning of the video that the husband should have stayed off of his phone more because it was taking over his life and was making their relationship different. Once he died though, the woman changed and she became the one who was too obsessed with all the technology in which she thought would bring him back. This is when technology started to really take over her life. It simply started with just being able to talk to his voice on the phone and then escalated to trying to be the real Ash. In a way technology was able to bring a version of Ash back, but I don't think technology will ever be able to completely make a real human duplicate. It was ironic though because Martha was fine with talking to "Ash" on the phone but once he became "real" and she realized that he will never really come back to her. It suddenly became not okay that he was there in person and she had realized that she let technology do to her exactly what it did to her husband. When it all became too much was when Martha experienced Mori's explanation of the uncanny valley. It was too human like, but was not the man she loved. In my opinion, many people say they would do anything to get back their loved ones after they have lost them, but I think if given the choice Martha had I would not have taken it. I would like to remember the person for who they truly were, not for the person that the internet saw. In the video, Martha had to explain different jokes that they had or ways Ash would have really acted in a certain situation and I would not want to let a robot try to take the place of someone that I love because they could not live up to the person that they truly were. It was not morally correct because they seemed to be cheating death and not dealing with it. It didn't seem like true love to her anymore when the robotic Ash referred to Martha as his administrator. She took offense to that and knew that this whole thing was just a performance for her grief but would never truly help her. Although in the end her child was able to still have a form of her father, that child will still never really know what he was like because there are restrictions and it was still hard for Martha to deal with even years later as she stood at the bottom of the latter. People are constantly wanting the latest and greatest phone or iPad, but when will it eventually be too much?