In response to Emily T.

I agree with Emily that it is totally bizarre for a robot to take care of a person, when since the beginning of time, humans took care of humans. Emily also brings up an interesting point about being exceeded by technology in your third year of college. Not only does it cost money to go back to college to be updated after working in a specific field for years, it also requires multiple trips back to college to be constantly updated on the new technology that will never cease to advance. Another good point she made was that technology could take your place. The way our economy has been declining lately with an unemployment increase of 4.1% since last year [1], the human race cannot afford to have the joobs taken by machines. To answer her question "Have we already gone too far with our technology?", I don't think so. Sure, technology has surpassed our highest expectations, but we are not yet at the point where we have robots that are running around doing jobs like delivering mail, serving in the police or even preparing food like a professional chef (like the movie I, Robot). However, the way we rely on technology today, from the simplest things like boiling water on the stove to the most far fetched of ideas like pens that help you solve math equations, is a little frightening, because like Emily said, what if technology fails and we have to rely on ourselves? The answer for most of us is terrifying. Lastly, I disagree with her very first sentence “…are becoming way too technologically advanced than we should be.”, but I agree more with the fact that humans are becoming way too technologically dependent than we should be.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdatads=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&q=unemployment+rate