The Role Of Technology In Brian Aldiss's Who Can Replace Man

In the world we live in today technology is getting better everyday and there are so many things we can do with technology. We can do good things with technology or bad things. Is all this advancements technology we have good or bad? We think that the advancing technology in our lives today is so great but what if it is not as great as we think. Technology is only as good as the person who made it, but mankind has a lot of flaws, so the technology we make also has flaws. Would the technology we make be just another version of the creator and would it act like the creator? In the story written by Brian Aldiss that's based in 2500 “Who Can Replace Man” there are machines and they represent how human society is today.

One good example of the message about human society that is conveyed through the story’s portrait of the machine society is when the machines had no leader chaos broke out. After they thought all the men had died on Earth chaos broke out in the compound because the machines did not know what to do with out orders. “ Outside, wild activity filled the yard. Many machines, their routines for the first time in years,
In today's society we leave people behind because they have contribute all they can to are success and we think that they are just slowing us down, so we leave them behind so we can be successful. In the story the operated said to the penner when the penner crashed to the ground “Therefore you will be of no further use.”(Aldiss,149) and all the machines left the penner there to rust. The machines in the story represent society today and how we leave people behind when they fall but instead we should help them up.This is just another example of how the machines in the story “Who Can Replace Man” represent human society