Comparison Essay: Future of Computers and Humanity What does the future have in store for the human race? ... So could robotics and computers be filling the gap that humans will be missing in the future? ... (John Ibbitson, 365) Perhaps we will need these machines to take the place of individuals that once slaved doing grunt work in a factory or mindless deskwork that could potentially be filled by programmed machines. ... , "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever." ... The future is still uncertain, especially when it comes to technolog...

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Future of an Illusion Religion today is a topic of many controversial arguments. ... In "Future of an Illusion," Sigmund Freud takes on religion and presents it as an illusion, and as a human obsessional neurosis. ... It is the way that the adult deals with the feelings of helplessness that were once as he was a child fulfilled by his biological father. ...

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The present is seen more of a combination of the past and future at any given time. It will be influenced by either or both, and should possibly be seen as a more vital stage, being as it was once the future and will be the past and should be lived wisely and carefully as not to hinder past accomplishments or future endeavors. The future, on the other hand, is also vitally important. Teleological behavior is a norm, any given person, if asked what they think about the majority of the time, past, present or future, would most likely say the future. ... Once one has reached the age of unders...

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The points are as follows: Questions provide future conversations, Questions enable self-discovery and reveal areas of discontent, and Questions will reduce tension in new situations. Houze (2000) states that, "good questions provide you, as the questioner, a frame of reference for future conversations" (p.1). ... Once that change or improvement is implemented into an individual's life, then he or she may encounter new issues. ... Once this happens, then that individual can possess the art of thinking before asking questions which will ultimately result in producing an intelligent ...

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The Allegory of Prudence and The Three Ages of Man are two pieces that have, with the use of symbolism, depicted the past, present and future of all human life. ... One again there is a disctinctive pattern emerging because the animals used each represent the past, present and future of human life. ... Instead of placing them in order of increasing age from left to right, to show the past, present and future, he places them exactly the opposite order, which in fact has the same meaning as The Three Stages of Man. Once again he demonstrates the ambition of youth by making it look into the f...

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To me, the Star Trek universe is an ascertainable future, a future where the human race has set aside its differences and realized that they are not the only beings in the universe; that they must cooperate with each other and with aliens to accomplish their goals. ... The technology in the Star Trek universe is based on scientific theory, therefore, feasible in the future. ... Since I put a great amount of thought into what will happen in the future of the human race, this is calming. ... Star Trek stretches my mind to new possibilities and everybody knows once you stretch a muscle it will ...

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Their struggle for equality has finally earned them a place in the society's most respectable sectors that were once restricted to them. Women now practice professions such as Lawyers, CEO's, Politicians, and many others whose accessibility was once only granted to men. ... How can the Army be a protector if it puts in danger the future of the country? If one thinks about it, the most dramatic casualties of war are usually women and children, and that, because they reflect the future of the country, women by being the creators of children and children by being the future active membe...

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As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. ... Despite their differences, however, all have one thing in common: an overwhelmingly optimistic vision for the future. ... Once again, this is an personally subjective issue which was intended to be dealt with on an individual scale. ... Once Bowman accepts the mental transition, he begins to indulge himself. ... As we see Dave age once more, he appears to be near the end of his ^life^. ...

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Once this task is complete all that is left is the unpredictability and the excitement of undefined outcomes, of pure experience. ... The experience of reality according to Camus is only available once you have ceded that the world is not to be understood. ... Finally, Sartre believed that humans do not have an essence and therefore do not ascribe to one determined future. ... This freedom from an unyielding future should also serve man. ... However, just as an object contains the possibility for any future, human beings possess the freedom to choose their own actions. ...

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Once I began reading the plaques around the room and learning about Bedia's life and work, I discovered that he is well-known for that particular kind of exhibition. ... The author's idea was to create a piece of art that depicts when a person tries to create his own future. ... The lines represent how the person paints in his mind how he want to succeed in his future; how he wants to leave the island and go to a new stage in life. ... He tries to express that if he wants to have a future, he has to leave the island. ... His overarching message seems to be that if a person wants to ...

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It was to be a super human in the appearance of an angel, but once Clerval and Elizabeth found out about it they explained what he had done in playing God and demanded him to stop. At the very last moment when it could be stopped Clerval and Frankenstein had a full on fight only to finish at the beginning of a new age a super human race, Frankenstein sat down in thought of the reality, the future of the monster, it was ugly, it was dead made to the living, wouldn't be understood and so he must leave it in terror. ... Frankenstein will now abandon and destroy all of his work, and ...

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By identifying what went wrong, what my part in it was and how I would like things to be different in the future, can better prepare me for similar situations in future relationships. ... Being that I was once a single parent before I married it wasn't too difficult for me to convert back. ... First of all my future mate must definitely be employed. ... Education opens doors to your future and also determines your employment type. ... Like I said," Once bitten, twice shy." ...

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Once society allows parts of the human to be patented, it becomes unclear exactly what makes a person human. ... Once a person feels their insides are not secure, Butler 4 the feeling of external safety will fade, and anarchy will take over society. ... Cell research has a promising future, if it is not continuously mistreat by scientists and corporations. If this problem is not addressed now, it could potentially reach a critical point in future years. ...

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Frankenstein created life from what was once living matter. ... The Being, once brought to life, is grotesque, unacceptable to others of humankind. Is this what we fear in the future of genetic engineering? ... Like Pandora's box, once opened, unleashed or unbound, the creator loses control of it's creation. ... The stories of the past, such as Frankenstein and Prometheus, are the precursors to the future. ...

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I can see our once good-hearted goals becoming ego crazed, genetic invention competitions between scientists. ... Everyone knows that once a greedy child receives one cookie, she only wants more. What makes people think that once this technology legally goes into effect the desire for more exploring won't explode? ... You can't take away scientists" rights once they've started. ... With the ability to clone people they are able to control the appearance of humans for the future. ...

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This is not the only case that involves seeing dead loved ones again, many families have saved the cells of their lost ones in hope that one day they may be able to see their faces once again. ... Human cloning is now the future in science, and the future cannot be avoided. With cooperation and regulation we can face the future safely and benefit from it in many ways. ...

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In the most encouraging and possibly not so distant future, post-birth medical applications are to enhance the drug delivery throughout the body. ... Genetic modification can be used to alter our genes once we are older or simply when we get a disease. ... Eliminating illness and future diseases in an unborn is critical to ensure that the baby grows up healthy. ... This work would simply involve nonviable embryos, which will lower ethical factor of using "possibly future child" embryos for research. ... These results illustrate clearly what future research in such domain could accomp...

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(p604) Once the Terminator becomes the industry standard, control of the genetics of crop plants will move from the farmer's field to the seed companies. ... From one end to the other, consumers are in revolt over the prospect of a future in which nature has somehow been altered by people holding test tubes. ... Scientists believed that once adult cells had differentiated to become skin or eye cells ( Kolata 612). ... Sometime in the near future people will be able to have children with altered DNA in which they could pick the hair color, personality, and even appearance of their ch...

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Process philosophers hold the popular belief that the future is undetermined, open - a clean slate, so to speak. ... To these philosophers, neither the future nor the past can be changed or altered because, according to the philosophers of the manifold, neither past or future really exist - time is always now, always occurring in the present. ... Time has no history or future because it simply exists. ... Humans regret the past and fear the future because they are swept up and bound by their own impositions of time. ... This calendar represents sixty years, beginning with year one, ending wit...

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So, the main problem is could AI threaten human existence in the future? ... " (Ballard 2) Finally, with keeping moral and ethical principles in human mind, no one wants build a machine which can destroy human life in the future; additionally, if there is a way in the future that scientists can put moral and ethical principles inside the robots body, exactly like humans, it might be useful to protect them from doing ruthless behavior. ... Based on his new book, Super Intelligence, Bostrom describes that once machine's intellect surpass human's one, they can make a decision to ...

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A person in turn, picks his future and how he wants to live it. ... At first, the death meant nothing to him, but once the same situation happens to him, he sees the difficulty she faced and for the first time thought about other peoples" feelings....

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They also feel that once they obey authority, they cannot undermine authority, and therefore are not able to stop their actions against others. ... I think Milgram's purpose was to make us aware of how we react to these kinds of situations, because this might help us control ourselves in the future. ... It is imperative so that we can prevent these types of situations in the future. ...

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They also feel that once they obey authority, they cannot undermine authority, and therefore are not able to stop their actions against others. ... I think Milgram's purpose was to make us aware of how we react to these kinds of situations, because this might help us control ourselves in the future. ... It is imperative so that we can prevent these types of situations in the future. ...

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As the character of Atticus Finch recognizes in "To Kill a Mockingbird"", cases such as defending negro Tom Robinson against the charge of rape in his home town of Maycombe "come along once in a lifetime" (link to text/quote)and there is no turning away from such moments. ... The decision to act on Robinson's behalf is the only option open to Atticus if he is to be able to hold his head up high and have his children respect him in the future (unpacking the decision in terms of the prompt). ... I felt that an expository mode (form and why it was chosen) was the best form to adopt as I co...

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Calculations are made about how much is being spent to look after the old and the sick - the non-productive family members of society forgetting that once they had been productive. ... He heard that his sister's hopes for the future, to learn to play the violin, were dashed. ... Once he made it to the kitchen only to be seriously injured by an apple that his father threw at him. ... They immediately make new plans for the future. ...

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