机械越生活化，人类就越机械化
Sunday, September 21, 2008 (1:41 PM)
robots taking over the world is no science fiction. the only fiction is them coming alive.
as computers become more involved in our daily lives and enable us to do more with it than without it, reliance is born. we stop socializing in person. we start to do it with the machines.
with the barage of choices we have for communication, we appear to choose the asynchronous media more than the synchronous ones. calling someone for appointment is reduced to texting. which is why the telecom companies are offering more free smses for the heavy users of text.
i recall an incident back in poly when we had to get our project coordinator to take a look at our progress. he was in school. so were we. so i suggested calling him since we had his number. what's more, his office was at the same floor. we could always walk over. but my team mate decided to email him instead.
guang's boss is just two rooms away from his office but he finds it a chore to walk over to tell guang something, so he decided to use msn instead.
the internet draws people far away closer to one another. it also draws people close further apart.
网络把世界各地的人们拉近，也把亲近的人们拉远.
after some time, the human interaction is lost. the human touch is lost. everything is so machine that we unknowingly turn ourselves into what we originally created.
the robots don't need to come alive to take over the world. human has created its own demise.