After taking this course, I think it brings some new ideas, which challenges a boundary between human and robot that I have never thought before. With the development of technology, we use more and more technical products: we use an ipod to listen to music; we use some mobile phone to communicate with others. All those technical products become important elements in people living; we may say that people are no longer passive to consume them as the past. However, it is some kind of invading of human. At this moment, I would not think that I am a cyborg although I wear contact lens almost every day. However, I notice that human may not simply viewed as human in the modern days, we have to think about my roles in some extent that we may become a cyborg, for example, install some artificial parts in our body.
Moreover, I think that using weblog is a fresh practice in taking the course. Besides three hours lesson every week, it provides another platform for us to discuss some ideas, which we may not cover in lessons. Throughout a discussion, it helps us to learn more and understand the ideas more clear. It also gives us time to prepare for a discussion. It is easy for us to view and review others posts and comment whenever we want as well.
Lastly, I think that although some ideas covered in this course are quite difficult for me to understand, it provides some general ideas about cyborg, human and post-human, which we have to notice in the modern days. I think those daily examples happening around us, which mention in tutorials, are useful for me to understand some theories, because some theories are hard to get if we just read those articles.
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