Learning From The Inevitable : New Technology

I found this chapter absolutely fascinating. For me the real insights were the role of the political system in the building of the giant stone statues that became Easter Island’s biggest mystery when it was discovered in 1722. There were hundreds of erect statues with no one there. Who built them? As Diamond explains, it was the dozen clans that controlled the island who built them. “The clans competed peacefully by seeking to outdo each other in building

In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the world as people know it is advancing technologically, scientifically, and influencing humanity in a negative manner. Huxley uses the World State to express how such advances are slowly ruining humanity. The World State and the people living in it are a prime example of how technology and science are tainting humanity and society. Throughout the novel, many connections to todays society can be clearly identified and connected to. People in the World State are mass produced through the Bakonovsky Process.

With the basis being discoveries unveiled through archeology,pollen analysis,and paleontology, Jared Diamond dissects and explores the enigmatic history of the Easter Island civilization in his analytical article “Easter’s End”, written five years prior to the end of the 20th century. In the magazine piece, the isolated island is revealed to have once been a prosperous territory, indicating the depletion of resources and the extinction of wildlife are caused by the negligence of its earlier inhabitants. Considering this fact, the writer concludes with strong implications of the impending calamity that will befall modern society if humans do not learn from their past and take remedial measures.

Old entities, relics of the past, can often hold value and insights into the future. Books are an especially good source of knowledge about the future. There are many literary examples of books that dissect the human psyche to the point of being able to predict possible scenarios and conflicts. The novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is an eerie example of a book with prophetical potential. As each year passes this world is becoming increasingly more similar to the world in Aldous Huxley’s novel.

I work at a restaurant in Southlands,and every night I notice that 75% of people tend to be on their phone texting, tweeting, or playing the latest game, not noticing who or what is around them. In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, this scenario was predicted.This book published in 1932, is about a dystopian society which is too busy to notice how brainwashed they are.Currently, in 2017, we live in a society where kids who are barely old enough to walk to old people in nursing homes can't get enough of their technology and are on it nonstop. A technological driven society is incapable of realizing the reality around them.

In Brave New World they highly depend on technology, that’s similar to our world because we highly depended on technology. For example in the brave new world the government is runned off of technology, they program the way people are born to how they think and act. In our world, we our similar because the media, money sources and the government controls everything that we see which bases out how we act. Despite its differences we are all monitored and controlled in several ways. The new state is a controlled society that reflects our society in a few similar ways. Their government controls and watches them and trains them to act a specific way. In our world The media, capitalist and government moniter things to try and calm

The entire world in Brave New World is united as the World State, governed by ten World Controllers. The entire world is run by these select people. In Brave New World technology plays a huge roll in the standards of life, and provides a 'perfect' world. Technology, which has brought mankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century, can also ruin the lives of people. In Brave New World, Huxley shows us what technology can do if we exercise it too much. Humans can lose humanity if we rely on technology too much. The world Huxley created is a working utopian society that doesn't have disease, war, problems, crisis but it's also a sad society with no feelings, emotions or human characteristics. There can be no 'utopia' because there cannot be a

The world has come a long ways, even in the last ten years in the world of technology. We have created things that were never even believed to be possible fifteen years ago. He have devices that people living twenty years ago would view as completely foreign had they not grown older as the times went on. Imagine, if it can be done, being taken directly from the roaring twenties in New York City in the United States and being directly transported to New York City of today. You would feel completely lost and have no idea what to do. It would be like an alien world. Everyone talking into some strange small box that lights up and changes color whenever the person touches it. People driving around in fancy cars that can get to speeds over one hundred

Technology often elicits imagery of lifeless, emotionless, and automated machinery. It is frequently viewed as a vehicle or weapon to oppress individuals and maintain conformity. Classic dystopian novels such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Yevgeny Zamyatin ’s We depict the depraved uses of technology at the hands of the ruthless government. Such novels demonstrate the ability and versatility of technology to serve malign and immoral purposes, from depriving embryos of oxygen to create societal castes such as the Alphas and Betas in Brave New World to eliminating the imagination in the Great Operation of We.

Easter Island is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia that is well known for its giant moai statues jotted all along it. Many scientists come to Easter Island to study how and why the statues were made. These statues have an average weight of about 20 tons and an average height of 20 feet. Historians are not sure how the native people of Easter Island, also formally known as Rapa Nui, were able to drag and place these large statues in their intended locations, but the most commonly accepted theory is that the people used long pieces of ropes to drag these statues to their places. The Moai statues were carved from the solid volcanic ash of the volcano Rano Raraku. They were then taken to quarries on top of the volcanoes, where the people used ropes to hold the statues at a 45° angle so they could be carved even more in more detail.

Stony sentry’s, carved years ago by Polynesian craftsmen, gaze over one of the most remote places in the world. With their land enlarged by overuse, islanders now draw on a revival of their culture to attract visitors. I intend to tell about this small island off the coast of Chile named Easter Island.

In the novel Brave New World, it tells you that technology controls humans (also government controls) from the time they are in the test tube. Technology is so advanced that they can make you highly intelligent or not intelligent while you are still an embryo. Mr. Foster says (chapter 1, pg. 14) “The lower the caste the shorter the oxygen.” This means that one cannot have control over their own intelligence. You cannot try your best, or do more work because your intelligence is pre planed. Also, there is no choice as to whether one will allow technology to think for them, because their intelligence is chosen when one is an embryo.

with society if a natural disaster such as an earthquake were to occur; the same could be said for

Remember the days when you played outside? Actually, when was the last time you played outside in your free time? The world has overloaded with new electronics. Starting with Steve Jobs and the impressive iPhone invention, there has been more and more new devices filling this world with technology. Are these devices good for us? Are we too dependent on them?

Easter Island, a mysterious and intriguing land lies on Chilean territory in the South Pacific ocean. The Polynesian people discovered an island that can allow researchers and linguistics to dive in and dig up remains and stories of the past. Easter Island is an isolated historical place that boomed in population and thrived in culture. The name Easter Island was born from the first European, Jacob Roggeveen, to arrive on Easter Sunday in the year 1722. The islander’s culture left a legacy that was important enough to get into the history books and minds of many. Easter Island is commonly known for the home of giant Moai stones that tourists today visit in awe. Few people understand the history of the Polynesian settlers that created many