2012年12月5日星期三

Reading Assignment ( unfinished )


For me, it is scary to see how those machines and robots can replace human’s craftwork. In many ways, the usage of them can increase the efficiency and save the opportunity cost for us to do other things we want. However, is the crafts work really just about producing products? I believe they are not. I would judge that there are things that you cannot achieve with machines and robots.

For arts, there are many computer programs out there can make a painting of landscape in just a few seconds. However, compare them with the really oil paintings in galleries, they miss the soul of art. Different artists paint differently, and even the same artist has different styles in different period of time. The real paintings are unique from each other. Through the different ways of color usage, the composition planning, and the stroke sweeping, artists give arts their soul.

Most people in the world may say that machines save time for us. However, they make us loose the ability of handcrafting.