Technology

Warm, Fuzzy Robot Love

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 12, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Mom and I saw "Wall-E" last night and now I’m smitten with the little guy. Some friends had told me beforehand that there were a lot of adult themes in the movie and I wondered while watching how a child would process them. I’d like to see it again and think about it some more.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to grow up the way kids do now, in a world of screens, iPods, emails and constant text messaging. (Even Kung Fu Panda threatened to kick our butts if we engaged in the practice in the pre-show entertainment!) This movie represents a lot of the issues they’ll deal with, but it was particularly interesting in terms of how we’ll preserve our humanity as we become more invested in our technologies. I like that technology was represented here as a positive, even though there were obvious perils when people became too dependent.

Oh, and cheers for the "Rogue Robots." Love those guys!