Technology As You Know It

In the 21st century nothing has been more influential on the human race than technology has. Technology is a part of anything and everything and the thought of no technology would be considered the apocalypse. Two women, Jane McGonigal, a video game designer, and Sherry Turkle, a technology professor at MIT, both have their own perspectives on technology and how it impacts emotions. McGonigal’s main focus is how video games can be used as a model on how we as humans can make this world a better place. Turkle’s studies are focused on how technology such as cell phones, online avatars, and social media make a whole generations personal development different from past generations. McGonigal is extremely optimistic towards the idea of not only video games but technology as a whole being a huge impact on the improvement of earth’s population. Turkle is more skeptical on technology bringing up thought evoking questions regarding whether technology and its effects on us should be considered good or bad. Even with their contrasting topics both of these women are trying to show how the technology of everyday life alter the emotions. Turkle and McGonigal’s ideas are comparative regarding the emotional effect on people using alternate realities being positive and they also agree that technological communication has become a tool for emotional benefit in society, but their technological views differ on how technology will help us mature as a person.

Technology has changed drastically from the 1970s to now. We have exceeded what most people back then could ever imagine. The technology used in schools, homes, and in public places has evolved into technology that makes the “cutting edge” technology of the 70s look very simple. Things such as the personal computer, the cell phone, electronic games, TVs, and even watches have changed completely. The ways that they have exceeded expectations is truly unbelievable.

“All of our technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal” (Albert Einstein). This quote provides the definition that technology in the world is as important as a weapon for a criminal. One simply cannot live without each other. This connects to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley because in this utopia creating new technology is very essential making the world an easier place to live in. Therefore, the theme of Brave New World is that science will eliminate human suffering.

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.

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

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.

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.

Technology has revolutionized the world as it is today. People in different countries thousands of miles away can now communicate at the press of a button. Cities are designed and built using computer programs. Children now have access to a wide range of knowledge when they simply type a question into a search engine on the internet. Products are being

1) Based on the resources provided above, how would you define technology? Be sure to use your own words!

Technology is used on a daily basis to accomplish specific tasks or interests. Modern technology increases human capabilities and this technology has evolved with years. Technology simplifies life in so many ways and everyone defines technology in their own way. They’re new types of technology on the market, this technology simplifies our daily lives. They’re endless demands as consumers of technology, people use technology to accomplish simple tasks every day. Technology’s used in business, education, communication, healthcare, entertainment and so much more. There’s an unquestionable impact of technology on society. Whether considering the plow, vaccinations, or the internet, technology has had a huge impact on society. While not every advance benefits society, there’s many positive effects of technology. Modern technology makes life more convenient now more than ever. Modern technologies like broadband internet makes it possible to access relevant information at any time anywhere. Today’s technology makes it simple for students to learn from anywhere through online education and mobile education, which improves the education system. It also improves the health system, most hospitals have implemented modern technology in surgical rooms, which may reduce the number of mistakes made by doctors. Modern technology’s more convenient than when it was simpler because, it provides an easy way to access information, improves the education system, and it improves the health system.

Brave New World warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State’s stability. Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies that Brave New World criticizes most sharply.

With this new glass of Merlot by my side, I sit and wonder at the amazement of technology. Each velvety sip opens me up in my corner a little more just as technology has done so for the world. But now I must go off and ponder further on into an important philosophical question of whether this technology, endless as it has come to be, should be considered as a thing that has brought out the best or the worst in society. How complex a question! Surely I could easily look back fondly and count the many ways that technology and its manifold presence has been nothing but a blessing, not only to facilitating human kind, but also our intrinsic pursuit of society. But now, as easy as that might be, it would be a more healthy venture to play the

Technology is slowly becoming our present world. Every day new apps, cell phones, electronics etc. are being created. Technology is a ever growing field and it’s just going to keep growing. Technology essentially makes our lives easier. In this day and age