Author Archives: Linzy Scott

Human culture is filled to the brim with a deep fear of sentience that isn’t ours. Descartes’ attempts to mechanize animals reminds me of two things that persist in film. The characterization of animals are cold, calculating killing machines is … Continue reading →

In the diving scene of “Ghost In The Shell” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q0OKYPsRM) and during a period of intense reflection with Batou, Kusanagi states that, “If man realizes technology is within reach, he achieves it, like it’s damn near instinctive.” This thought, that … Continue reading →

This is a picture of my character, stuck in what looks like a large globe model. My experience with Second Life was marked by the various ways in which the way the virtual world was rendered affected my experience. Movement … Continue reading →

I already talked about the hyper realistic aspect of children’s toys and animatronics such as those infamously used in Chuck E. Cheese’s. I wanted to go into more depth over them, specifically over how they seem to both portray an … Continue reading →

http://kk.org/thetechnium/the-unspeakable/ This article offers some more of Arthur C. Clarke’s view on Marvin Minsky’s “useless machine” expanding on why the machine’s simple functionality (un-functionality) is so “unspeakably sinister” Additionally, the article reveals the mainstream appeal that the machine had as … Continue reading →