Luddite or Techie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg_eEnm_QsU

This is a clip for the up and coming movie, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. For those of you who have never seen the series, they are about a group of robots, The Autobots, whose main goal is to protect and maintain human civilization on Earth, while attempting to evade the evil Decepticons (another group of robots).

Even though the technological advancement in these movies is far beyond our reach (at least anytime soon), what do you think the clip implies about technical advancement today? Do you even think that there is a possibility for humans to create this technology and what do you think the potential consequences are, if any, from having the ability to create technology such as this?

Read two (2) Commonplace Essays from the website (http://www.mhlearningsolutions.com/commonplace) and then write a comment in response to this post with a reaction to each essay. Your reaction can be an agreement, a counter-argument, a critique, whatever, but make sure you read 2 essays and react to both of them in your comment. Looking forward to all your reading responses!

Derek

http://techland.time.com/2011/04/29/lunar-tourism-possible-within-5-years-if-you-can-afford-it-spoiler-you-cant/

A company which is Virginia-based named Space Adventures will be offering the ability for consumers to take a once in a lifetime trip to outerspace. The catch: The trip will cost in the range of $150 million dollars.

Space technology is just one form of technology that seems to be adopting their technology for recreational purposes. These recreational purposes are in some ways replacing the use of technology for scientific research and discovery. Do you think that this shift seen within the past few decades will benefit scientific research or is it solely for amusement purposes? Should this form of technology be available to those who are not specialized in that field simply because they have access to money? Where do you think the line should e drawn in inventing technology for reasons other than scientific inquiry?