Lev Manovich breaks down new media into five categories: numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. Automation stands out to me the most, he stated, “Thus human intentionality can be removed from the creative process, at least in part.” I disagree, humans can never be removed from the creative process as creativity involves a living person. Human has the ability to think with emotions which computers do not. Creativity is the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of artistic work. Computers can never have the ability to imagine or create unique or original ideas since computers run on the algorithm that is made by a human. There is a thin line that can never be crossed between humans and computers. Computers can do many human jobs but definitely cannot do creative jobs.

Additionally, Lev Manovich stated, “The character, generated by a computer in real-time, communicates with the through user natural language; it also tries to guess the user’s emotional state and to adjust the style of interaction accordingly.” This is definitely a very fascinating idea and does have the possibility to be true in the future. We have Alexa and Siri who communicates in real-time (sort of) but lack human emotion. It is different to teach computers about emotions; even humans cannot understand the emotions of each other.