Tag: robots

"Her," Robots, and Child Development

What I found particularly interesting and terrifying about the piece on Robots and Child Development is how often we are blind to the potential detrimental effects of technology and how easily we write them off. When I first was reading the article I wasn’t convinced. I think from a technological point of view the possibility… Read more "Her," Robots, and Child Development

Goochee Week 4 Discussion Post

Wowzers, week four’s readings have been the creepiest so far, by far. I am responding to the child near-future-robot scenario article. I found the postulation that children will form moral and social relationships with their toys to be completely ridiculous, until they invoked the first example of the Tamagotchi, which I did love and interact with in… Read more Goochee Week 4 Discussion Post

DQC Week 4 - Robots in our future?

Kahn et al.’s argument that robots will be the future of our society and be detrimental to childhood development was not very compelling to me. Though I agree that technological advancement has accelerated in recent years and we have become increasingly urban towards a “technological nature”, I do not agree that robots will have the… Read more DQC Week 4 - Robots in our future?

Thoughts on emotional robots

The Kahn et al article really had an impact on me. It made me think about how our logic can be hijacked by our emotions, and how vulnerable young children’s emotions are and where the world is heading. It makes complete sense that the children would feel an emotional attachment to the robots, but what… Read more Thoughts on emotional robots