sisi.yu(100394557) DESK SET 1) Desk Set opens with We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance of the International Business Machines Corporation.? What is IBM various rolls within the film and its making? Why would IBM be involved with such a film? What specifically can they hope to gain from it? Explain/Discuss. Yes. The film Desk Set opens with e gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the International Business Machines Corporation. The various rolls are Barbara ¡°Bunny¡± Watson (Katharine Hepburn), ¡°the walking catalogue of the network¡¯s reference library¡±, Richard Sumner, ¡°the bumbling computer expert who fathers the electronic brain¡± Because IBM want to use computer to instead of human brain. The company hope computer does job quick and no error. -----------------------------------------------------------------

2) Illustrate the theme of human-machine rivalry using specific incidents from the film to illustrate your points. Is Desk Set an anti- or pro-technology film? Explain/Discuss. When Bunny feeds the machine a question as to whether the King of the Watusis drives a car, the machine can only spit out a movie review of "King Solomon's Mines", which included the keyword "Watusi." No, Desk Set is not an anti- or pro-technology film. This film just want to us know computer is not perfection. -----------------------------------------------------------------

3) Why did management keep Sumner work a secret in the company? In retrospect, was this a prudent move, and was it handled well? Explain/Discuss. Because the computerizing the office have not been decide. Yes. This was a prudent move, and was it handled well. -----------------------------------------------------------------

4) What were the fears of the employees? Explain/Discuss. The employees affaired lost their jobs. Because the computers will instead of them. -----------------------------------------------------------------

5) Bunny felt that Sumner was more in love with EMARAC than with her. Is this true? Discuss. Explore the issue of computer-caused relationship problems. No, that was not true. Because Summer confused to computerizing the office in the end. Computerizing the office will cause lots of people lost their job. -----------------------------------------------------------------

6) When Sumner asked EMARAC if Bunny Watson should marry him, it answered no£¿ Speculate about why this happened, and what it may mean for computer matching and dating services. Yes, computer only can do job based by data. However human action always based on emotion and environment, etc. -----------------------------------------------------------------

7) Mr. Azae called EMARAC a modern miracle? That never made a mistake. Whereas Sumner claimed that it could make mistakes, but only if the human elements made a mistake first, and that it would also free the worker. Do you agree with these statements? Are they realistic? Justify your claim referring to the film and real world computing. No, I do not agree with these statements. Because computer can make human mistake, it means this is a man, not a computer. However it may be appeared in the future not right now. -----------------------------------------------------------------

8) Part of the strategy of capitalism is to advertise the virtues of progress while simultaneously satirizing resistance to progress. Discuss referring to specific incidents within the film. People hope progress, but their also are afraid of progress. In this fire Summer hope computerizing the office, but he also do not want Bunny lost her job. So this is human real life. -----------------------------------------------------------------

9) Have the concerns/fears about automation caused by computers that were evident in the film actually occurred in society? Explain/Discuss. Yes. The concerns about automation caused by computers that were evident in the film actually occurred in society. -----------------------------------------------------------------

10) What did you find interesting in the film DESK SET? Explain/Discuss. The technology is progress, but it can not instead of human. Like the film shows us that computer only does their job based on data. So computer only a assistant technology for people. -----------------------------------------------------------------