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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on how Asimov ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Believes we are becoming]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [Too Dependent on 'Puters]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:874 School: ? State: ?
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<EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>>Chop Here><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>><3E><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
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Will computers control humans in the future?
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People always tend to seek the easy way out looking for something that
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would make their lives easier. Machines and tools have given us the
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ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort.
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As the technology advances, computers become faster and more powerful.
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These new machines are enabling us to do more in less time making our lives
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easier. The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have
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negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows
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Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a
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futuristic world where computers control humans.
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One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans
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might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories,
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Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs
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designed to educate effortlessly a person. According to the Profession
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story people would no longer read books to learn and improve their
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knowledge. People would rely on the computers rather than "try to memorize
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enough to match someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55).
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People would not chose to study, they would only want to be educated by
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computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading
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books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a
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computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began
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to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting
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computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what
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computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould
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start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the
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computers.
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Another point that is criticized by Asimov is the fact that people
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might take their knowledge for granted allowing computers to take over and
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control their lives. In a story called The Feeling of Power, Asimov
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portrays how people started using computers to do even simple mathematical
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calculations. Over a long period of time people became so reliable on
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computers that they forgot the simplest multiplication and division rules.
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If someone wanted to calculate an answer they would simply use their pocket
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computer to do that (The Feeling of Power 77). People became too
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independent from the start making them forget what they have learned in the
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past. People in the story The Feeling of Power would take for granted what
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they have learned over centuries of learning and chose computers because of
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their ability to do their work faster. The lack of manual mathematics,
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which people chose to forget in the story, caused computers to be the ones
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to solve simple mathematics problems for the p le taking control of the
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humans by doing the work for them (The Feeling of Power 81-82). The
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reliance of computers went to such an extent that even Humans began to use
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computers in all fields of study and work allowing computers to control
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their lives by taking over and doing everything for them.
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According to another story in the book, Asimov also describes how
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computers would be able to predict probabilities of an event, future. In
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the story All the Troubles of the World one big computer predicted crime
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before it even happened, allowing the police to take the person who was
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going to commit the crime and release him/her after the danger has passed
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(All The Troubles of The World 144-145). This computer, called Multivac,
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controlled humans by telling the authorities about who was going to commit
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a crime causing someone to be imprisoned until the danger has passed. It
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was the computer that made the decision of someone's freedom or
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imprisonment and that controlled others to arrest a person it suspected of
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committing a crime controlling his/her destiny. The decision of
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imprisoning someone for a crime a person did not commit was all in the
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hands of a computer. It was the computer that controlled humans and their
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destiny and controlling other humans who believed in everything that
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computer told them.
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Multivac could not only predict the future but it also could answer
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many questions that would normally embarrass people if they would have to
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ask someone else about it. Multivac could access its vast database of
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trillions of pieces of knowledge and find the best solution for one's
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problem (All The Troubles of The World 153). All the people believed that
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Multivac knows the best and allowed a computer to control their lives by
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following the solutions Multivac had given them (All the Troubles of The
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World 153). Humans followed a computer's solution to a problem they could
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not solve themselves allowing a computer to take control over their lives
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not allowing them to think for themselves.
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In the Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on
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computers. The author predicts that computers will increase their role in
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the future while the technology advances. Computers will become faster and
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people will want to use them more to make their lives easier. Yet, just
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like to any good side there is a bad side. Asimov reflects in his writing
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that humans might depend on the computers so much that they will allow them
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to control their lives.
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