Wednesday, January 7, 2009
2001: The Space Odyssey
The film does correspond with my view of the future. We have advanced technologically but the technology itself isn't the reason for our downfall. Rather, how we use the technology. I don't think HAL had emotions or anything, he was just following orders given to him by the engineers that built him to get to Jupiter and then tell the crew the real mission. Since he was the only one that knew the real reason for getting there, that's why he tried to prevent David Bowman from disconnecting him, since then the mission would end in failure. The evil robot in Wall-E was very similar to HAL, they look similar as well. They both were just following commands gave to them by humans, but appeared evil in doing so. HAL was right when he said it was human error and not him.
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This was great I agree with what you are trying to say.
ReplyDeletevery true but, how do you think HAL learned to kill people, was that the human error as well, did someone teach him that as well? that the mission objective is more important than human life.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm guessing it's a combination of both HAL having to complete his objectives, but the way he does is up to him.
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