https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp en-us 2018-03-03 22:56:26 UTC 2018-03-05 22:50:22 UTC hello@padlet.com jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp/wish/237739993 Write an essay about the portrayal of artificially constructed life-forms (androids; cyborgs; clones; artificial intelligences; virtual intelligences, etc.), and the ways in which these representations function in one of the short stories from our readings. How do they challenge our understanding and definition of “humanity”? How do they consider the effects of technology on human life? ]]> 2018-03-03 22:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp/wish/237739993 jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp/wish/237740052 Choose a partner to work with. Each of you will be responsible for reading your partner's essay and writing a paragraph response: the first two sentences should outline the strengths of the essay, the second two sentences should outline the essay’s problems, and the last 1-2 sentences should be a description of what your partner should focus on in revision. Please do this on a separate piece of paper (you will be turning this in along with your paper next week)]]> 2018-03-03 22:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp/wish/237740052 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/7lmf6cu4z8xp/wish/238386769 Super Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss: 1969 when the short-story was released, member of royal corp during WWII, best known short story; adapted into a movie

Imagine a world where you have to submit your name in a lottery in order to have a child. In this future, overpopulation and lack of resources exist. Therefore, artificially constructed life forms are created to fill the void of loneliness and not being able to have children. In Brian Aldiss's 1969 short-story "Super Toys" he creates such world and with it, reveals some of the complexities between an AI-child and human mother. "Super Toys" artificially constructed life-forms such as the AI-child David, represent the issue of a lack of human empathy and compassion.

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