So watching this a second time was just as interesting as the first time. I was still very bothered by the young girl being introduced to Ash without her mature opinion or belief on it. However, I didnt think of the fact that could possibily be as common as seeing toddlers now days with an ipad or ipod so I let that go a little. This time, the first thing that came to mind was the Twitter chat bot. Ash 2 started off with knowledge and refrences from Ash 1's electronic data. However, Ash 2 adapted and learned based on whatever Martha taught him. This was basically what the Twitter Bot did except it learned what millions of people had taught it. Unfortunately, people did not teach it well, I mean its Twitter so that was not surprising. It is crazy to realize how not so far away this is for our society.
Also, a second observation while watching this is again was how I would be if I were made into a Luis 2. I have social media accounts but I am not overly commited to them. My emails are all strictly either school or work related. This gives them a more proffesional tone compared to my daily interactions with people in real life. So, in order to have an accurate enough representation of oneself we would need to be really active in social media as well as being atleast similar to what we are in real life.
My final observation of this was the decrease in value for human relationships. If this becomes the norm; meaning, that if when we die we can eaily be "reborn" from our digital presence. The value for a live person drops because the fear of death and missing them is not as permenant. I mean don't get me wrong, I love my mom just as much knowing that there will be a day that either she will die or I will. However, death its self would not be as dreaded because a loved one could eaily be brought back. Maybe not in a perfect way but the ability for technology to interfere and make the robot version of him or her more accurate is something great but at the same time not so much. This really questions whether you can love someone for their mere existance or because they make you feel a certain way. Obviously, there is typically a mixture of both but the ability of creating Humans 2 will challenge that idea.
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I see your point, however I think allowing her to meet Ash before she was able to be influenced by the world was the better solution. This also allowed her to normalize Ash as a part of life as opposed to him just appearing later in life. That could be worse. She could interpret that as a strange machine staying above her head.
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