When given the brief I was thinking of things to base my assignment on and I came across a particular technological advance that had happened over the last few months, the invention of 'Siri' on IPhones (Model 4S).
I had always been rather sceptical about this invention and after using it for the first time on a friend IPhone a few days ago, I realised that it was a big event in technological advances. I also thought that it was a bad event for technology because the programme/ application is portrayed and sold as a cyborg. It is sold to be 'a person' who you can talk to and who you are able to form a relationship with, some one that can help make your normal working day easier.
I started by looking into the advertising champagne where I had first seen the application advertised. In the advertisement video when Siri was asked a “Hmm… let me think…” This immediately gave me the idea that they are selling the application as a human, or with the same capabilities as a human. This links with the theme of cyborgs. I am coming at this with a dystopian view initially.
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