The Ultimate Machine

For our contextualization day I looked more into the Ultimate Machine. It wasn’t quite as eerie as I had imagined it would be. I thought it would look more like a hand rising from a grave, kind of how many people imagine a corpse being reanimated would look like. I was curious about the man who invented it, so I looked more closely into his life and saw that he had made many more innovations in the fields of technology and robotics. In class we had discussed that the Ultimate Machine may have been a commentary on scientific progression, but after examining Claude Shannon’s life I don’t think so anymore. He would not have made the Ultimate Machine as a commentary only to produce more innovations that drove the field further.