"In more ominious visions, machines replace workers altogether. In Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, society is divided sharply between rich and the poor. The latter live and labor underground, beneath the shining towers of the city. A master technician finds a way to replace them with robots. The wealthy then provoke a rebellion so that the workers can be crushed and eliminated" (Nye 120)
"Rifin's book The End of Work was at best premature in predicitng the inevitable disappearance of jobs in the global labor market. If assembly lines, computers, robots, the Internet, and automated telecommuniccations displaced millions of workers, during the 1990s growing consumer demand created even more jobs in exchange" (Nye 128)
From Kim Vicente's The Human Factor, the concept of the Human Factor arises. Nye's views on technology have different sides to them, and I chose to look for passages that in my opinion, showed how the human factor is potrayed more in Nye's book.
The Human factor is saying that, humans can't keep up with technology, and thus we humans are at a lose when it comes to the advancedment of technology. I mean how is your average man going to compete with a robot, which replaced him, with a job that he can no longer have. Ofcourse the robot is much faster than he is, and more efficient at that to, not to mention cheap. So what is his only option now? To embrace technology and live with it or find another job only to be kicked out because machines are taking over. We are only humans! We can't work as efficiently as a robot because there is something called the Human factor holding us back. We can't calculate arithmitic as fast as a computer, and we certainly can't assemble a car as fast as an assembly line could.
Vicente expands on Nye's idea of a world where people are getting replaced by machines because the machines are more efficient and work at a lower cost than a worker would. Vicente brings in the Human factor in support of Nye's idea by essentially saying that we can work, but the only thing holding us back is the simple fact that says we are not machines and can't work 24/7 because we are humans. We are more prone to mistakes than a programmed robot is, thus we are replaced because we are only human in the working world.
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I think the way which you set up this essay was really unique and different. I like how you included your two sources, but also tied them and nye into The Human factor. The quote which you used to start your paper really did a good job at setting up how your main topic of discussion is robots. I think you should maybe give more of a set up to some of your quotes and explain how you interpret them to the reader. You could also talk about the affects on human kind as robots take over most of our jobs. What will the everyday life of humans be like when robots do all the work? Is this neccesarily a bad thing? Is the idea of robots showing how technology is beginning to control us? Also dont forget to mention what stakeholders are being talked about. I think this was really good though. It's definately set up very cool and got direct to the point and focused on what your main subject was.
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