Be Right Back

Watching Be Right Back made me realize how amazing and creepy technology can be one day. The video starts with a young couple, who seems to be in love.  One day Ash, the husband, leaves the house while on social media as always, and he does not return. Later, Martha finds out he is dead, and at his funeral her friend tells Martha that she can talk to Ash again. At first, Martha wants nothing to do with the program, but changes her mind after she finds out that she is pregnant. She went from messaging him every day, to talking to him on the phone every day, and then ordered a robot that looked and functioned like him. It was creepy how human-like that robot looked, walked, acted, and talked like Ash. It was truly amazingly mind-blowing to see such a spectacular piece of technology, but it was creepy to think of it as Ash. The robot was essentially Ash, but still was not Ash. Yes, it looked, walked, and talked like Ash, but it did not have the same experiences and memories as Ash. The robot only knew the information that it gathered from social media. I think that the robot is awesome, but it makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel as if the makers of the program are deceiving me. The makers of that program seem to be preying on grieving people who want to see their love ones again at any cost. The makers are predators who know that some people just cannot resist having something that somewhat resembles and mimics their deceased love one. Martha was walking around in a fantasy land where Ash was still alive. She soon realized that the robot did not know all of the small things that Ash knew and did. The robot being almost like Ash was no longer enough, and she needed the robot to be Ash. The fact that the robot was not Ash hurt her more than when she found out Ash was dead, which raises the question should a line be draw to how far technology can go?