Has anyone seen I-Robot? For anyone who hasn't, the movie is placed in a future where there is a robot in nearly every home and business. The robots do the work and they are always very polite and perfect with their speech, and they are voice controlled. At the center of all this is a huge corporation that controls all the robots. What nobody knows, except for the people who work for the corporation, is that the humans are lazy and created a super computer to control all the other robots and such. It is a female and she even has a name, along with every skill known to mankind, including the ability to reason.

The humans created her but, because of her ability to reason things out, she soon realizes that since the humans rely on her and she is the superior being then there is no need for humans to control her; in fact, why are humans important at all? She also reasons that(after witnessing a suicide) humans are dangerous to themselves and others, so that they must be protected from themselves. Since she has control of all robots, she simply reprograms them and orders them to lock down all humans and any humans who resist are to be terminated at will.

Humans come out in droves to defend themselves and they fight with the robots. But how can humans beat creatures that they themselves created; creatures that they designed to be stronger, faster, smarter, and all around better than humans? And how can the humans blame the creatures for doing what they were programed to do in the first place? Well, at the end of the day a hero rises up (Will Smith!!!) and figures out how to disarm the main computer. All the robots go back to normal and have no recollection of what happened, but does that stop the humans from blaming them? No.

The moral of this story? Well, there are actually two morals. 1) Do not create something that you cannot control and 2) Do not blame something for doing what you created it to do.

I really do not know what else to say on the subject since it seems like common sense to me. Yes, technology can influence culture but who makes that technology and names it and then determines what it is to be used for; and isn't it true that most technologies are created by humans to influence and reform culture and society? Therefore, when something goes wrong, whose fault is it?

As to the problems that technology create, or can potentially create, in our society, the answer is simple; stop making them. Sure, we would have some issues with surviving without what we already have, but, like my mother says, you can't miss what you have never had.

The problem with this idea, for it has been brought up in the past, is that humans are obtuse and sometimes stupid animals driven by their desire to outdo everybody around them. Because of this we have never learned, and probably never will learn, our limits.