What I've noticed with how people respond to industrialization is either very much for it, or against it. There is not a lot of middle ground.
In the movie The Imitation Game Alan Turing was a man sent to decipher the German Waar code to win WW2. He was working on making an automated computing engine. In this film, his leaders are fighting him not believing it will work. While eventually all his friends begin to support the whole idea. There were not people mentioned that were indifferent towards the machine. People are not indifferent towards technology and industrialization. In the same way, some people love the new Iphones. They buy a new one each generation. While other people believe it is affecting them poorly to keep sewing into the Apple corporation that controls everything.
Industry has always affected jobs. So people care. The lecture mentioned Gutenberg bringing the printing press to the west. Which was able to do so much more work then a person. But that still took someones job who was writing down all the books.
As well came Ford and Taylorism. People were beginning to work to create more cars, which gave them jobs. But there came a thin line where people began to be treated like machines, instead of people.
Robots, or cyborgs have always been of a lot of interest for people. The movies first came up with the Robot, which meant work in a slavic language. And the interest for it to be like a human has always been on our minds.
Hod lipson talks about in his Ted talks the possibility of robots actually getting to a point where they can adapt like the animals they are mimicked by in creation.
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"Building "self-aware" Robots." Hod Lipson:. Web. 20 Apr. 2015. <http://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots#t-332319>.
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