Man and Machine

Drawing from Ron Burnnetts reading 'How images think' the relationship between man and machine, which looks at the significance of autonomy and and importance of this element in the relationship that humans have with the digital machines. I think humans will always have more autonomy than machines, as machines need humans and can not act without human intervention. Humans designed and made machines, they are the creators of machines and can easily destroy machines. Through the powers of which they possess. This is examplified in the "Terminator", Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated, but the system gets destroyed by the humans, but they manage to send a machine back in time the "Terminator".Throughout the movie and the sequel the humans still seem to be smarter than the machine, I do realise it is a movie, but the underlying idea that humans designed machines the blueprints to the construction of the machine, so they understand machines and they can easily create and easily destroy machines. The element of autonomy in the relationship between man and machine, may be challenged and tested, but Man is always the superior to Machine in the end. Machines have been made to do human activities and make life easier for man. There is the idea that as "machines become more capable of autonomous reproducing through software the fear of human activities being taken over". But this will be under the autonomous control of humans, for their benefits and through their intervention. Humans can continue to develop software and will, but it will be for their consumption and at their disposal and control.
(For more information on Terminator http://imdb.com/title/tt0088247/plotsummary)