Week 3

This week’s topic was on robotics and art through the Renaissance and Industrialization leading to our present day technologies and cultural representations of robotics. According to lecture this week the printing press is what led to the mass production revolution and a difference in how people perceived the world they lived in. Here in the U.S. we tend to give Johannes Glutenburg credit for the invention of the printing press in 1450, however it was the Chinese about 400 years prior that first invented this technology. Not only did it transform the way knowledge was spread but it led to more measures of mass production such as the mass production of cars. Tom Ford was the first to mass produce automobiles and this altered the way society was constructed as a whole. No longer was it just the extremely wealthy that could own a car, most of the middle class could now own a vehicle due to the cheap labor of mass production.
In light of this faster lifestyle, movies and literature started to mirror this way of life in its integration of robotics and technology. As noted in lecture Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was a cultural phenomenon that explored the ramifications of a scientist creating a monster with an unusual experiment. The story implies the negative effects of technology and proposes the question of when does technology take it too far? Society in general wants what’s faster, more efficient and on trend which has helped us get to where we are but also can lead to some negative ramifications.  
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Works Cited
"On This Day, March 9th." History Things. N.p., 09 Mar. 2016. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.
"Printing Press :- A Great and Important Invention." Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.
"The Frankenstein Thread." Steve Hoffman Music Forums. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.
Uconlineprogram. "Robotics Pt1." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Apr. 2012. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

Uconlineprogram. "Robotics Pt2." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Apr. 2012. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

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