In “San Junipero,” two women named Kelly and Yorkie meet in a beachside town and form a special connection. As the episode unfolds, however, we learn this isn’t any simple tourist destination, but a virtual reality playground for the dead and terminally ill, where you’re assigned era-specific outfits and dope Barbie cars. As each creeps closer to death in the flesh, the two grapple with whether they should continue their relationship in the virtual world,  to “pass over” rather than “pass away.” In other words, they live in a future where they can choose to either disappear, or have a replica of their human consciousness uploaded to the all-powerful cloud, existing in a fantasy land forever.

I don’t think it’s possible, because  transferring our consciousness to a computer to be remotely feasible, not only would we need a computer capable of handling the computational load of our brains and of replicating the complicated web of neural connections, we’d also need a method for transferring the parts of our brains that make us who we are to a computer: our memories, our unique way of processing information, our personal quirks, all into a digital format. The things we don’t know about the brain vastly outnumber the things that we do know, making building an artificial brain a tough task.

It was an overall a good episode reflecting on Human nature. Everyone judges others based on their ratings in the world of Nosedive. The main character wants to raise her ratings by attending her friend’s wedding, because many high rank guests is coming to the wedding, if Lacie can wow them with a moving speech, her rating is guaranteed to shoot through the roof. However, at the trip of attending the wedding, she gets in to lots of troubles unfortunately, and her rating drops to 2.8. And her friend doesn’t want her to come anymore because of her rating, and the MC goes to jail eventually.

It’s very similar to our society, they judge people by their rating system, we judge people by looking a person’s look, grades, achievements and income. I personally don’t use social media a lot, I use it mainly for communicating with my friends and family. Most of the people nowadays use social media just want to get more Followers and likes to satisfy their vanities, so they tend to upload their good sides, but not their bad sides. So, Social Society can’t really reflect one’s value.

In this episode, Data becomes a father. He creates another android, naming her Lal. This episode not only re-examines Data’s rights, but the rights of all androids like Data. It also tackles a very difficult subject: tech and ethics. The most emotional moment to watch was when Lal came to realization that she would be separated from her father. Experiencing a flood of emotion, and not knowing what to do with it, she went to Counselor Troi’s quarters. The something in my eyes began to appear with the words, “I feel…” while she struck her chest with the tips of her fingers, later to be followed with, “This is what it means to feel!” This episode is a very powerful episode for me.The actress who plays Lal does such a remarkable job in her role as well. She is able to portray so many emotions even when remaining as an android. I really wished that it could had more time with Data and Lal on the show but then again, this single moment in time was probably more impactful than any long story arc it could have had.

Robots are produced to bring convenient for our daily life. In the movie, “Ex Machina”, the robot Ava got his Caleb’s trust to help escape from the lab, and killed Nathan. This movie does a great job of posing questions about the future of humanity and whether we will be able to control AI that may end up usurping us if we are not careful. It’s fascinating to see the robot Ava pretends she is emotionless throughout the film and her ability to use emotions and feelings to manipulate humans is astounding.After watching the movie, I don’t really worry about the future of AI, robots will only have emotions if the one who created it intended to give them and human’s emotion is hard to imitate. It’s true that robots can be harmful to us, due to its error in production. But it’s also true to any other technologies, like automobile, smartphones and headphones. Sometimes, we hear the news of a phone exploding due to its’ bad quality, and it’s just like AI, they could be harmful to us. Therefore, the most important thing is the quality control, we can prevent this happening in the future.