Blog Post # 7

The story " We can Remember it for you Wholesale" was a great story. It had a lot of twists and turns and you could never really determine what was  true or not. The concept of having artificial memories plated in our minds is a crazy thing to think about. It could be possible one day but I think it a horrible idea. We would never know what was real or fake ever again. I go crazy trying to figure out if an experience I think I had actually happened was a dream or real so I could no imagine having a fake memory put in my head of something that never happened. I also don't like the fact that this technique is being used to deceive others as well. Even though the person with the fake memory is not aware that they are lying the people around them are being given actual planted proof of what the other thinks they did. I wouldn't want to live in a place where everyone is saying they did things they didn't actually do. As horrible of an idea that this is it is also very cool. Being able to have memories of something that I know I would never be able to do is a new way to experience joy in life. It is true that as we get older we lose memories of things we experienced and its almost like it never happened. Having fake memories implanted would be basically the same thing. We wouldn't remember actually participating in this particular even just the memories that we take from it. Being able to actually believe I went to mars would be cool but at the end of the day nothing beats true life experiences and the feeling of actually being somewhere.

Blog Post #6

In the story "Computer Friendly" we are getting the story from the perspective of Elizabeth, a seven year old girl. By telling the story from her point of view I think it makes the story a bit more relatable And gives this very dark story line a lighter more naïve tone. The Asia center is a perfect example of the making a morbid place very light hearted because its a very common thing for children to misheard a word and then make up a new word based on what they thing was said. They know that they will be sent there to "sleep" and all the children are naïve enough to believe that is what's going to happen. If this story was from a older perspective it definitely would had been more morbid because any adult would know what really happens at the Asia sentence. I think telling form a Childs view hits the reader even harder in a more emotional sense.  Children are often seen as a symbol of hope and when you have a society that is killing off their children that's how you know things have gone terribly wrong somewhere in history. In this story and also so the story "Burning Chrome" technology has taken over the lives of the people of the world and interfered with their lives often times not for the better. Just like in "Computer Friendly" Elizabeths mom was constantly connected to a computer in order to feed it data and in "Burning Chrome" the main character had computer connectors in his arm when he took off his fake arm. These societies are completely engulfed in technology instead of real life experiences. In both stories none of these societies haven gotten better from the advances in technology and it almost as if these writers knew that one day technology would run the world and make things worse for the world. I take these as warning and even though they may seem almost in possible a bit exaggerated weirder things do happen.

Blog Set #5

In both the stories "Reason" and "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" the idea of robots and non human forms of life are brought into the world that we live in. They are not average robots set out to perform a job but life like human simulators who are capable of thought and understanding. These were both written in times when robots did not exist yet today we are seeing real life examples of these stories coming to life. In Modern technology there are robots everywhere. In factories on the assembly line, in war, and in space Although these may not be human robots they have lead to the creation of many life like robots that talk and act like humans. I think it is amazing that 50+ years ago even though this kind of technology didn't exists these writers were still able to think about one day living In a world where robots are present. This kind of technology definitely shapes the way our societies function because most things these days are able to be done by computers instead of people. Humans are not having to do the work once required to do certain tasks like they were 30 year's ago. Although this saves time and is often more efficient its changing the way our brains work and out ability to solve things on out own. When technology makes everything available to us first hand we no longer have to put thought or effort into things which could possibly end up hurting humans in the end. If technology out smarts us then who knows maybe something like iRobot could happen in the future. This is an example of one of the many realistic robots being produced.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXaaprU9DhY. From far away you can barely tell it is not a real human. With technology advancing there might be a day where it is almost impossible to tell the difference.

Update Post : 🐸

WARNING: Possibly the most foolish story to ever exist.
Character: Spencer Johnson, 27
Dreams of moving to Japan to train Shiba Inus
Flaw: Self Centered
End of World Disaster: Virus turns everyone to frogs🐸

Spencer Johnson was a normal 27 year old man that had dreams of one day moving to Japan and training Shba Inus. In order to obtain that lifestyle he works full time at a shoe shining store in downtown Miami, FL. One day while working at the shoe shine he came across an old woman looking to get her sons shoes shined for a school dance. She was dressed like and old witch and looked like she hasn't bathed or brushed her hair in her entire life. Jowl she has a child while he didn't he could not fathom.  While shining her shoes Spencer was to busy looking at himself in the mirror to notice that he accidentally used brown shiner on her black shoes! He panicked trying to fix his mistake but it was too late the shoes were ruined. Although Spencer should have tried to fix his mistake or at least find new shoes he figured that the stress alone was punishment enough and he decided to go get what he thought was a well deserved massage. After an hour of pure relaxation Spencer returned to his shop where he saw the old woman standing at the register talking to his assistant Monroe. Not wanting to stress himself out again he asked Monroe to please deal with this customer. Poor Monroe had no idea what he was getting himself into when he agreed. As he brought out the shoes the old woman face went from slightly disturbing to look at to almost unhuman. She blamed the entire shop for ruining her sons life and proceeded to place a hex on the entire store and all who worked there. The hex was a virus that turned anyone within 5 feet of anyone infected into a frog. The virus spread all over the world, changing everyone into an amphibian. A webbed toe here a webbed finger there. After about a year and a half the world was ridden with frogs and there were thousands of untrained Shibas running around Japan just looking for a trainer. Amongst all the frogs Spencer was always recognizable because he was constantly staring at his reflection in the pond and ribbiting on about how fantastic his lily pad was.

Blog Set #4

When reading the star I found it slightly boring because it took so long for anything to actually happen and it was already determined that it wasn't going to actually hit the earth. There was also no plans to try and prevent anything bad from happening which I found very interesting. In not having a rescue mission or one single hero I feel like the author was trying to unite humanity and show everyone on the same level as each other. In life there are some things that are inevitable and for the world this was one of them. Instead of separating a select few or just one from the rest of the world and raising them above he chose to unite everyone on the basis that this was something the world was going to have to face together. As much as I did not like this story  I did like the messages of unity and togetherness of the world.


I found the story speech sounds very interesting. It showed the downfall of the world after communication was wiped out completely. The world became animalistic and almost primal as people were not able to communicate their true thoughts or wants because of a virus. It was an every man for himself type of world where a simple wrong movement could have caused a fight. The importance of communication and language is highlighted in the story and shows how important the spoken language is when dealing with all people. I thought at then end of the story when Rye found the children that were able to speak it created a glimmer of hope that one day the world would be able to be a place like it was before this virus hit. One of the lines that really hit me was when it was said that if a woman was raped no one would help her. This real demonstrated how afraid and how reserved people were to help others because of the possibility of being killed or causing another fight. The cop that still worse his uniform really intrigued me because even though no one else knew what it meant he did and he almost felt like it was his duty to protect and serve these people that did not want be served or helped.  This also showed hope that people would still hold true to the old life they knew and would one day be able to bring those old ways into the new world they are building.