Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Robot Land


South Korea is building a £1.3bn robot land where not only the rides are robot inflenced, but the staff in the park are robots too. Scientists are playing on peoples ultimate fear of robots. Fear of them controlling, fear of their inability to feel and one supposes the fear of them taking over the world.
Just like Alfred Hitchcock exploited into peoples fear to make movies ( how many people never looked at crows and seagulls the same after watching The Birds, not to mention showers!), the South Koreans are plugging into people's fear of Automated humans.
What do you feel about Robots- friend or foe ?

Read this article to find out more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/fast_track/9636763.stm

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