Surrogates

I watched a really interesting movie last night called Surrogates, with Bruce Willis. I knew what the movie was about before I watched but not fully. Now, after seeing it, I wish I would have watched it before handing in our Com 435 paper on Cyborgs. Some of the main concepts from the movie are exactly what we were supposed to analyze in our paper. Actually, in the beginning of the movie before the plot started they were talking about technology advancements and mentioned something that i had read in Naam's reading about a monkey who ended up totally controlling an electronic arm. The movie was a world in the future in which "surrogates" exist and each person had a surrogate. These surrogates are simply robots that have been created to look human. People live through their surrogates. They remain at home hooked up to a machine in which they are able to see and feel everything they surrogate does. A human can choose to create his or her cyborg to look like anyone they want. I wont give the movie away but obviously in a world where humans don't leave their homes and only surrogates are out, trouble will arise and it does in the movie.