Friday, February 21, 2014
Human dystopia
Today in class we watched the Ray Kurzweil video which led us to talk about the Singularity idea and about technology merging with biology to a point where our lives are run on technology. During this whole discussion all I could think about were the people from the movie Wall-e. In the movie earth is completely desolate and all humans live on this spaceship thing called "Human dystopia." Everyone living on Human dystopia is completely reliant on technology to the point where they don't even walk to interact with other people face to face (its all done through computers and screens). I think this says a lot about where technology could be taking us in this world. The name "human dystopia" itself even implies something unpleasant, dystopia is the opposite of utopia. I personally do not like this whole idea of biology and technology merging because it makes me think life would be like in Wall-e, which really scares me.
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I enjoyed your comment on Wall-e in class, and I think this is directly connected to our topic. I'd have liked to see you open up discussion a little bit more in the blog, for example thinking about how Kurzweil might respond to the association.
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