The power of technology has always fascinated me and the chapters in the NMR (21-24) gave me more to ponder. I, myself, am constantly struggling with which world I prefer: that of the technologically savvy versus the nostalgia of old media. I love blogs, but fear for newspapers. I collect vinyls, but love finding new, underground artists that I would never be able to find without the Internet.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
NMR: Chapters 21-24: Eliza
The power of Eliza, discussed in chapter 24, really compelled me to the potential danger of technology. In 1966 when Eliza was first introduced, people were able to "communicate" with a "chatterbot," encoded with various scripts and posing as a psychotherapist. Joseph Weizenbaum questioned what technology like Eliza was doing not only to our world but in terms of what it was doing to our minds. There must be boundaries developed, the author believed, in order to prevent technology from running wild. While Negroponte talked about how technology was empower its users, just as Boal examined ways in which technology could help create circumstances that helped to deal with everyday problems for the oppressed, the advent of Eliza puts a lot of the positives of technology into question.
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