man vs machine

In the Terminator the cyborgs revolt against the humans.  Now in an increasing age of technology the ideas from the movie Terminator are coming closer.  Robots have been doing people’s jobs now for decades.  Just look at the car industry and the decline of workers being replaced by robots.  More recently, people have been making robots to give people messages, to teach in classrooms, and well just about everything – i.e. Google.  The databases on Google (and less reliable sources such as Wikipedia) are beginning to take regular jobs out of commission.  For now people love it.  They don’t have to buy a newspaper or watch the news at 5 o’clock.  They can go online and find what they need instantaneously.  A quick look at the newspaper industry shows where technology and jobs are going.

The real question is when the war between humans and cyborgs begins, will it be the cyborgs that start it, or will it be humans who revolt against cyborgs?  With job unemployment at nearly 10% and with more jobs being replaced by machines it’s only time before humans begin revolting against their replacements.  It’s only time before the war begins.