Reflection Paper On Elyssium

Corresponding to Bradbury's predictions of the future, it’s been commonly argued that the advancement in technology will bring permanent results that will be passed on in history as “The Great Extinction” or “Humanity’s extinction”.

Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley, depicts a dystopian world of the future in which sex, social class, and orthodoxy are focused upon. WALL-E, a Disney Pixar film, also dystopian, epitomizes a prospective world of obesity, emphasizes the consequences of mistreating the Earth’s resources, and displays technological advancements. The two are not to be confused with a utopian society - one in which the future is depicted as quintessential. Dystopian societies similarly focus on the future, but rather one that depicts a deteriorated planet. Though Brave New World and WALL-E highlight different morals and lessons to be learned for prevention in our current day society, the two share qualities of hedonism and unlikely futures.

Projections that have been made about how today’s society and culture will look in the coming years, decades, and centuries, all have yet to be seen in how valid they are. If you look in any sort of media: television, social media, or radio/music, you will see people giving their interpretations of what will become of our world down the road. Yet, few people look to see how our the current state of culture and society reflect the projections made by people in previous years, decades, and centuries. In looking at the visions of the future presented by both novelas, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, each story presents aspects of society that prominently appear today. Written during the Industrial Revolution, a time where technology and human innovation was at one of its highest points in recent history, both stories explore the possible effects of the machinery that was becoming evermore present. Both authors present aspects such as omnipotent technology, decaying human independence, and destruction of real communication, to create the artistic statement that complacency is rising within the human race, and that complacency will eventually lead to the fall of mankind. In both stories, the authors speak against human complacency and deference to technology, warning that it will lead to the creation of weaker people and society that will ultimately destroy the human race, yet that complacency is present in today’s culture and due to the

50 years from now the future will look pretty different from what we know now. There will be smartphones. There might possibly be flying cars. Also there will be machines that do everyday task for you. But the

Everyone wonders how the future will be. What will change, what will stay the same? Everyone has their own views and scenarios on the future just as Brave New world and Divergent do. Brave New World and Divergent both take a look at the theme of social stability by analyzing setting, perspective and control. They both depict the future to be divided into five factions or castes where everyone is designated to a specific one. However, that may not always be the case as these two works show.

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots” Albert Einsteinʼs once said. Even though he lived in the 1900s, he predicted our predicament that we are heading to. Ray Bradbury did the same thing.

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.

I really can’t tell what the future will be like only time can. Although I believe America will thrive in the future. With ever evolving technology and science and our thirst for knowledge we will strive for more advancements to become the most advanced country. It’s all a race for that and I firmly believe America will lead the race. America is a great country. Full of life and peaceful beings. America is a strong country that is only getting stronger as we grow and become more knowledgeable. America has always been a great and strong ever since the very first colonist arrived. And since that time we’ve only grown stronger and bigger.

Discontented and disheartened, author Aldous Huxley accentuates what’s to come in the future based off present events in his novel, Brave New World (Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper & Bros. 1946). Although satirical, Huxley’s message is somber and warns people towards the loss of total freedom and individuality as technological advances continue to develop. People in today’s society consider oppression and social restrictions as a negative way of living.

This universe is constructed of an unimaginable number of galaxies. One of these galaxies is full of stars, rocks, black-holes, moons, and planets. The planets rotate in a precise pattern that has a focal point on a bright, massive sun that keeps them all in line. Around ninety three million miles away from the sun, floats one planet, Earth. This planet has water, air, and billions of lifeforms. One of these billions of species is humans. With the passing of time, people develop a firmer and more powerful hold on the future of the universe. Of course, modernization is going to happen; great scientific advancements are being uncovered, and change is happening constantly; however these progressions are prioritized over morals and the condition of Earth. Science fiction plays with the idea of how people’s choices affect not only themselves but the world they once knew. In the movie Avatar the human race has declared war on an indigenous people to try and take over their planet. Earth has been striped of its resources and soon so will this alien planet, Pandora. The Ray Bradbury story, “ ーAnd the Moon Still be as Bright," in which earthlings have traveled to

An ELL teacher may assist schools or districts by understanding the current ELL instructional programs and then enhance the design, if necessary, by ensuring the current program meets federal, state, and local guidelines, laws, and polices.

Over time many texts have been created which depict future societies and the governmental systems that may exist. Generally due to the nature of the sci-fi genre, these texts portray a utopian or dystopian world. These texts provide what we may see as extreme portrayals of certain issues or events and what role humans play in the future

cars and a completely different world. This a completely different view of how the future

Throughout this semester our literary material dealt with themes of technology, modernization, the imponderable bloom, human nature, and truth to name a few of the most overarching. Each text has woven an impression of the possible near future for humanity if the patterns we are creating continue at an exponential rate. Patterns such as consumerism, neglecting unpleasurable emotions, using drugs, and controlling the environment for our short term benefits will write an unsavory and inevitable future. Science Fiction often reflects on society by exaggerating their negative characteristics and advancements to seem far-out, but often it is ironic how close many aspects of the fiction are a direct reflection of the present condition. Even now, the possibilities of utopias and dystopias forming are not so out of reach. The ability of our culture to control an entire population with a self-satisfied culture of vices outfitted with technology is less and less science fiction as the years pass.

The future is a time or a period of time in which we follow through from the moment of speaking or writing our intentions. It is a time that has yet still to come. The future is what we work for, to go through school and have a career, in order to have a better life. My parents have taught me to work hard for the things I want, and I wish to have a bright future. That is one of the reasons why I am here at CI, to get an education that will help me find a career with sufficient salary that will support me and my future family.