Hip Hop
One of the aspects of being a human is a self-expression. Ever since years we've been trying to figure out what is human and why are we on this planet earth. The greatest philosophers have asked this questions and the most world famous universal sentence saying "I think therefore I am" became the one of the main ideas what is human and where we belong.
Nonetheless, the times have changed and many people created their own definition of our being, yet the times changed and the culture have changed as well.
Now we live in the changing times. There is more of us than ever before and each of us want to survive on this planet, however, we can but others search for more than just whatever through which they create culture. That's how the culture of the street was created... the hip-hop culture.
Of course as well known hip hop is characterised by features like rapping, DJing, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion (Price, 2006). But the times change and with the time the themes of the culture change too.
There was a time that in hip hop culture human would imitate a robot in dance, fashion, language, and music (Zanatto, et al. 2020; Overvelde, 2021).
Does that mean that robots can also contribute to the culture creation?
Cultural robot
Can robots contribute to the creation of the culture? Can robots deliver nuances to the world that change the perspective of the world?
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The answer is yes!
Algorithms have already taken over human brains and we cannot exist without our mobile devices but is there any possibility of taking a step ahead?
Can robots create a new culture for humans?
Let's take a look at the machines creating music, language, and interaction.
The simplest example would be a YouTube algorithm delivering new ideas for kids and changing their way of being affecting the new generations!
The robots also contribute to the part of the street culture delivering nowadays self created music, art and dance. Can that indicate that the future may bring even greater collaboration between human and robots?
Overvelde, J.T., 2021. Popping, locking robots. Nature Materials, 20(12), pp.1590-1591.
Price III, E.G., 2006. Hip hop culture. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
Zanatto, D., Patacchiola, M., Goslin, J., Thill, S. and Cangelosi, A., 2020, March. Do humans imitate robots? An investigation of strategic social learning in human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction (pp. 449-457).