Why the future doesn't need us

Joy's thesis is dealing with technology and how robots could eventually take over the world. She is pointing out how the world's advancement in technology is growing. The rapid growing of this technology can be a danger to society. If the world is eventually completely run by technology, then a few potential problems could occur. These machines can make decisions for us, and we will not know the outcome or we as people will have some input on these machines but potential problems could still occur with bigger decisions.

Humans can still control things of their own. Personal machines like cars and computers can ultimately be controlled by the owner. Bigger machines ran can be monitored by humans (although some think it would be a waste of time).


Institutions are ultimately contributing to this overtake of technology. Machines are becoming more and more intelligent. With this rapid growth of technology, humans are becoming less and less of a need. These machines do not need to monitored as much because of it's strong intelligence. Inevitably, institutions will feel its unnecessary to monitor machines, thus resulting in more of and overtake by technology.


I think Huxley would respond well to Joy's article. Huxley satirizes the use of technology in BNW. He foreshadows things that could happen in the future if the world keeps letting technology do things for us. Eventually people will not even need to have human contact with eachother in order to survive. What Joy and Huxley are both saying is that technology's intelligence is growing while people are just sitting back and giving into it.


Joy argues his thesis that robots could overtake the world by stating many key points. Joy states that already people are using this technology for basically anything. He even says that he found it so amazing that instead of having to question himself about information, he could just type it into the computer and it would give him the answer. People today rely heavily on techonology to make decisions for them.

I don't necessarily think that Joy is a fear monger, I just think he is trying to warn us about the future. He is not trying to make people live in fear, he just wants them to come to realization. Joy uses literary devices like imagery. For example, Joy talks about the bombing and what the world could look like in the future, if the whole world was ran by robots. These literary devices let Joy get her point across, that someday, robots could take over the future with technology. Joy's use of imagery also let's us see her perspective on the issue of the use of technology.

Joy's thesis that, technology will take over our future, relates to Brave New World. The two pieces of work both relate to the advancement of technology. They both paint a picture as to what could happen to our world with technology advancing as rapidly as it is. The two authors both question technology and its "good" purpose. They both try to talk to the readers and have them open their eyes as to what the world is coming to with technology.