Throughout the show Osmosis, there are many advanced forms of technology that are far more progressive than the technology of today's society. I want to talk a little bit about Martin, the artificially intelligent decoder that provides Esther with all of the information she needs in regards to just about anything she'd like to know. Martin is basically Esther's personal assistant. In the relationship between Esther and Martin, Esther would be the encoder. Martin is not a person, Martin acts very similarly to that of "Alexa" in today's world. Martin however, is far more advanced. Martin also has the ability to anthropomorphize and demonstrates human behaviors. Martin demonstrates the ability to anthropomorphize by having also having the ability to communicate.
I now want to talk a bit about human computation. Numerous people carry out the small task of distributing the pill in order to begin Osmosis. A computer cannot do that and since more and more people are participating in Osmosis, human computation is the way to carry out that part of the process. Throughout the first few episodes, it is apparent that there is cultural anxiety when it came to first testing out Osmosis. The characters were hesitant when initially taking the pill because they were the first up to bat for testing Osmosis. The test dummies had no idea what was really going to happen to them but believed that the pill was going to do what they were told it was going to do. That slight fear came from the unfamiliarity of the and lack of knowledge with the new technology.
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