... all have their heads hanging low and they are walking in perfect practically automated rhythm, this shows how low they are in society and how they are treated like a worthless machine. In addition to this, this was symbolizing how human life and work ethics are beginning to be disregarded. Another example of the acting, is the facial expressions of the workers ... to is more work and the death, so much so that they wouldn't even lift their heads to look ahead of them. Both of these examples, make a point about how machine like and patterned these people's life were, (e.g. birth-work-dea...

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... minutely slower. Ironically, the humans themselves simulate feelings with manufactured "mood organs," which provide emotion with a click of a button. The one distinguishing quality of humans has been taken over by a machine. Even the protagonist of the story, Rick Deckard, uses a mood organ to change his mood to a more positive one. The other manufactured ... machine to simulate real feelings is an "empathy box." The empathy boxes allow a large portion of the population to feel a sort of "oceanic" consciousness, a way of exploiting the empathy that has ... ...

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... have been explored in The Lawnmower Man (Leonard 1992) and The Net (Winkler 1995). Recently, The Matrix (Wachowski & Wachowski 1999), sets in 2199, the world has been taken over by A.I. machine - a machines which enslave humanity, using people as batteries to power its mainframe. (Walters 2000) However, Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence (2002) paints a more understanding view of artificial life, portraying sensitive ... ...

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