Deus Ex: Human Revolution

In “Harrison Bergeron,” mankind has created a different kind of torture for humans they have created handicaps that create loud noise to stop them from thinking too deeply and weights to slow him down and masks to make people uglier. “. . . had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. . . every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking advantage of their brains” (14-17). This technology made life miserable and dull and caused people to become oblivious to problems in their lives The author makes this story to tell his readers that being equal is not necessarily a good thing. The technology of the future is dangerous if treated without care or given to the wrong people. The authors both give warnings about the future and how we must be careful with technology and how being equal is not always good.

Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, even if for just a few short hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Despite the popularity of the recent films The Hunger Games and Divergence, the dystopian theme in film is not a new one. The Matrix shows a society where humans exist without any freedom. The film, not only entertaining but thought provoking as well, paints a world with two different dimensions, a world very much like today’s when the film is closely examined. The Matrix questions the benefit of technology and influence over society.

Most characters in dystopian stories, no matter what their personal or family situation, lead more or less controlled lives which often leads to a personal struggle to take control over one’s life. This can be a difficult and dangerous process for the individual who feels the need to break free of systematic restraint. In the novel 1984 and the film Minority Report, George Orwell and Steven Spielberg (film based on a short story by Philip Dick), create two characters that must deal with this struggle: Winston Smith in 1984 and John Anderton in Minority Report have come to realize they are controlled by both government and technology. In the midst of these characters’ efforts to gain individual control, each falls into a very challenging situation.

Technology, which has brought mankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century, can also ruin the life of peoples. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley shows us what technology can do if we exercise it too much. From the novel we can see that humans can lose humanity if we rely on technology too much. In the novel, the author sets the world in the future where everything is being controlled by technology. This world seems to be a very perfectly working utopian society that does not have any disease, war, problems, crisis but it is also a sad society with no feelings, emotions or human characteristics. This is a very scary society because everything is being controlled even before someone is born, in test tube, where they

Technology and the economy of today is growing and getting more advanced than ever, yet the world can go completely upside down in 29 years from today. In the book Ready Player One, Ernest Cline states that the world is in the year 2045, the future is absolutely corrupt and everyone is living in a dystopian world. Almost everyone uses OASIS, an online gaming program, and is ultimately many people's escape from their reality. The creator, James Halliday, sent out an alarming announcement interrupting everyone’s day addressing a mission about a hidden easter egg in the game. If someone can find the easter egg , they will inherit his fortune. Wade Watts, the main character, was set and determined to find the egg and made it his greatest goal when

As we begin to explore the world of technology, we must be careful that we don’t get too dependent on what it can do for us. We cannot forget that technology can change the way people think, feel, and can prevent them from daily activities. In the movie Wall-E, it gives you a glimpse of what can happen if you don’t help take care of the earth, and depend too much on technology. Wall-E gives us a look at a few Dystopian categories such as environmental, political, psychological, and technological; making the film feel as if this is what has already started to happen on earth today.

Technology has made numerous positive contributions to society in a very short period of time. Although, it also has a way to be intrusive and frightening. Three in class stories that display the fictional victimization of lower status people through technology are: “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A Netflix series and British television program called Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker also expresses many of the same recurring themes of technological based exploitation in Episode 2 ‘Fifteen Million Merits’. There are multiple overlapping themes between these four pieces of work and today’s society.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a seemingly perfect drug made to make everyone stop worrying about their problems has entered society: soma. This substance has become such a staple part of their society that living without ever using soma is a great accomplishment. Overall, soma further emphasizes the theme that greater powers are using technology to control society. This technology may seem good-hearted at first glance, but ultimately has a deeper motive.

It is expected that citizens of the World State carry out their lives in the way that they are premeditated by the government. The author portrays a world where nearly every irregularity has been taken out and people could be considered to be parts of a machine instead of members of a society. In his book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley stresses that those in power have absolute control over the rest of the population, creating a world where people are treated as parts of a machine. Examples from the book that prove this include the measures to combat unorthodox behavior, allowing people to avoid all negativity with soma, and the overall structure the society has.

Many people in society today face so many changes today laws remain unchanged: laws do not change as quickly as attitudes do. The book Brave New World, depicts a society in which experiment government control results in the failure of the society. It is a world where everything is control, managed, and synthetic. Even the people of the society are manufactured in a test tube, being themselves factory-made. The people are born and developed in the test tubes and so is their nature.

By attempting to dictate all matters of thought, from the brutal surveillance of 1984 to the unwavering dedication to a caste system in Brave New World, as well as choosing to forgo creativity and emotional freedom in order to substitute government propaganda, the people of these dystopian futures lose their humanity despite technology moving

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World reflects the fallacies of utopian happiness when a totalitarian government artificially controls a society. Controllers of the “World State” in Brave New World strategically allow their citizens to use designer drugs, mainly Soma, to create an unintelligent and unquestioning population that is segregated into five different social classes. However, there are some rebels in the midst of the World State that don’t stand true to their government’s laws. Moderation is almost unheard of in Brave New World.

Though we want to believe that we have complete control over our actions, it is clear that we are puppets to the media in our society. We seek the supposed expertise of others to tell us what is wrong with our bodies and minds. Sometimes we get cured, and other times we walk away empty-handed if the professional believes nothing is wrong. In Japan, a person who believed they were what Westerners call depression could not seek help because their society and culture did not consider them ill. Also the idea that the individual is nothing more than an android programmed by society to think that it’s able to make its own decisions when media is actually the processor in control. We see this ideal in our society every day. As mentioned in the text, something as revolutionary as the IPhone only reached its lengths due to the mass media it received. Once it got enough fame, society’s pressure took over and expanded its market even more. One of the many ways media contains such control is through the use of celebrities, such as Princess Masako, to advertise products such as anti depressants. The idea that we have any autonomy over our ideals is flawed. Humans are controlled strictly by their society through the use of media and marketing. Even those who can be considered great individuals are

The future of the Earth and its society is in grave danger. Freedoms will be taken away, and everybody will be living under the subjection of the government. No one will have any say in what is to happen, and there will be no personal opinions. Many people envision that there will be flying cars and incredible technology in the future, but there are others who disagree and envision the future society as something that has crumpled and needs help. George Orwell, the author of the dystopian novel 1984, and Andrew Stanton, director and author of the movie Wall-E, talk about the concepts of the future society and how it is in immense danger.

Although technology is a superior advancement in our culture, the dystopian novel by M.T. Anderson, Feed brings forth the idea of what would happen if this advancement were to go too far. In this story, individuals have lost all sight of reality after being addicted to the feed, as it takes over their lives. One cannot live a normal life without it. In times today, people can completely function (with exceptions) without the use of technology. The theme for this novel exaggerates some realities, but for others, it isn’t so far-fetched.