Technology Is Not Science Fiction

Microchipping people isrecognized as one of the most popular evolutional technologies that could change people 's life style and standard. Human implanting has the potential ability of saving life when emergency; it is capable of improving efficiency at work and life quality of life. Also it can bring evolutional change to the security system forever. With that mass of expectation, microchipping people also brings people equivalent large amount of concerning, people are worried about the consequence of implanting things that are unnatural, radioactive or privacy-threaten into their bodies and unlikely to be taken out undamaging to body. In this report, advantages and disadvantages of the technology will be shown with discussion of engineers responsibility regards on real life cases.

Another example of the negative side of advanced technology being depicted by Huxley in Brave New World is in how the World State replaces real emotion and individuality with conditioning and collectiveness. While the assembly line becomes a major way to create human beings, machines and objects replace human emotions, which leads to consumerism and individuality falling to the wayside. The World State is a society in which economics take precedence over emotion. Everyone is needed for their role in society—it is what they are designed for after all—but they all also need everyone else. Whether they are Alphas or Gammas, they are always aware of their own ability. Lenina is a perfect example of a person who used to live in the objects world

PP1 – Give an example on how the microchip has changed your daily life currently compared to 5 years ago.

Graafstra has designed bio-safe magnets and recently made a microchip that gets implanted into your hand which he experiments all his creations on himself. The microchip he’s created called the RFID, holds encrypted propaganda, and they also have ID numbers that can be used to unlock a person’s smartphone, which from watching the news or looking at social media you’ll know this would be useful for unlocking terrorists’ phones since we’ve had trouble with that recently and in the past. At the convention it was said that a lot of people actually lined up to be “chipped” as they called it, while others just stared and wondered why they would want to do this. If you were like Sasha Rose, who was at the convention at her meditation booth, it was reported she said “She shook her head: This was the craziest thing she had seen. She wondered about Graafstra's credentials. She thought this was a medical procedure, so

For just a moment, let me take you back to 1976. Television in color was starting to dominate the market, cars were measured in gallons to the mile rather than miles to the gallon, and the thought of anything better than Pong was but a pipe dream. Also, people had a disgusting taste in fashion. Have you seen what they wore back then? Today is September 21st, 2016, forty years later. What was only possible in science fiction then is everyday life now. We carry a mini supercomputer in our pockets. We have glasses that project holograms that we can interact with. We even have smart toilets with built in deodorizers! So, what caused this gargantuan change in the way we live in a measly forty years? A large, beige, clunky device called the Apple

Some may argue that getting a microchip implanted to your body is a good idea. However, many argue the the consistent amount of personal data stored in the device can cause a major problem in our social security. For example, if this so called microchip can hold you keys and your information( Address, phone password, you identity….) and use it against you for whatever reason. Recent research has proven that this microchip can even make you sick. The technology used to find your dog and/or cat is now among the humans.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel about a society that orchestrates its citizens’ actions through mass media propaganda and censorship. The government controls its citizens’ freedom of thought and individualism through various manipulations, most importantly television and the banning of books. The government in the novel furtively influences the population by allowing no insightful television broadcasts that could lead to dissention or questions, but rather bombards the citizens with television shows that contain only mindless frivolity to keep the viewers in a state of almost vegetative happiness. There are no news broadcasts, documentaries, or current affairs programs, nothing

Jay Stanley's article about the privacy threat that automatic license plate readers (ALPR) and related technologies pose to average Americans may seem a bit histrionic in tone, but the point seems valid enough. Stanley is a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union, whose primary purpose is to monitor the privacy threat that emerging technologies represent, so the fright-inducing tone of the hypothetical scenarios offered at the end of the article makes sense. However, I feel a more factual basis for the hypothetical scenarios would have helped make Stanley's case to skeptical readers.

Science fiction has indeed played a significant role in not only speculating about the future, but in many instances has actually shaped and molded some of the social and cultural norms we see today. Science fiction is about what could be, in the realm of actual scientific related possibilities, not farfetched ones. Look at Isaac Asimov’s speculative vision of robotics and mankind living side by side, in peace and harmony. When Asimov wrote the stories in compiled in I Robot, the idea that humans and robots would be working side by side was unfathomable and yet here we are today with robots driving us around (self driving cars) and performing surgeries on humans. On the other hand, camp is a completely different spectacle in terms of

“That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?” This is one of the most famous quotes from the movie Aliens, and was said by Hudson when the spaceship crashed while it was coming down to rescue the crew. Aliens, is a sequel to the film Alien, and is directed by James Cameron. This movie picks right up from where the prior movie left off. The main character, Ripley, is being taken back out to space to show the crew the Aliens. No one believes her and they all think that she is crazy. When they arrive, the aliens turn out to be a much bigger problem than anticipated and takes out most of the crew. Now Ripley and a few others must fight to survive the aliens. This movie portrayed many

Films do and have always reflected society because they show what's important to people. Films demonstrate fads and hot button issues. Film is not only a piece of art but also a tool of social reform as it expresses the feelings of humans and their idea of contemporary society. Films are the mirror that reflect the society. They are controlled by powerful forces that filter information to the public as well as reflect their fears. This has been held true in the film industry for many decades. For example, when society had a fear of widespread crime then there were many films that reflected the police catching the criminals. When society felt that the schools were not educating the children then there were films reflecting inspirational

There are a total of 24 hours in each day. How one spends their 24 hours depends on what they do, whether they work, go to school, or both. Some people complain about not having enough hours in a day. Are there really not enough hours in a day or are other things such as technology taking up majority of our time? It is said to be a cultural myth that with all of the technological advancements we as humans have become dependent on it for everything and it takes up a large amounts of our time. We spend all day doing what we have to do, but it seems as though there is not enough time. I believe that it is a myth, and that technology is taking over and is the reason we do not have “enough” time in our day.

Imagine. One day your Doctor regretfully informs you the person you love the most in your life is tragically going pass away due to an incurable disease. Instantly, overwhelming feelings of despair and anger burn inside your chest while graphic scenes of funeral details and goodbyes flood your mind eventually propelling you to the rhetorical question everyone asks, “Is there anything we can do?” Then, The Doctor hands you a pamphlet saying, “Have you ever heard of nanotechnology?” This Doctor is no “Mad Scientist”; in fact, he is a highly trained professional that has saved several lives with his proposition. What would you say? This small-scale scenario is the perplexing situation the human race will have to face in the near future. Although some would consider the merger of technology and human biology a completely “crack pot” idea, It is this hasty decision of judgment that explains our reaction to fear. This fear resonates with most of the population globally since it is this very generation that has witnessed the exponential growth of technology. Physically, psychologically and spiritually, technological singularity threatens our future and shakes the foundation of morality. However, does this change bring about negative or positive ramifications? With Technological Singularity’s future being so unpredictable, it would not be wise to ignore its possibilities especially since it was the human race,

“The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work” (Rees 2011, para. 10). This quote resonates with how different society has become over the past 25 years. More and more Information Technology (IT) has found a way into the lives of people and has helped to make them more productive. IT has delivered significant benefits to society by making tasks easier, saving time, and helping to advance skills. However, if IT is not deployed properly, they can hinder skills or cause harm by hindering literacy skills, hamper critical thinking and impairing communication. IT benefits players in terms of advances literacy skills, improves critical thinking and enhances communication, but it also negatively impacts on these skills if not used appropriately.

The ability of a creature to consider itself and ponder its existence is a marvel of evolution. It is one of the many features we humans pride ourselves on, but we have yet to fully understand such a remarkable feature of biology and other features equally as incredible. In our quest for understanding, unearthing answers to old questions merely leads us further down the rabbit hole and we find ourselves faced with more and increasingly difficult questions. Every generation, every era, has its own culmination of moral dilemmas and ethical quandaries that challenge what we believe of ourselves and the world around us. Ideas of race, religion, animals and sentience, god and man—among others—have pressed us into reconsidering what we believe and progressed our knowledge pertaining to not only the physical world, but the metaphysical. In this flurry of philosophy, we have come to ask, what even makes us human? As technology has grown with astonishing speed following the industrial revolution and the earlier agricultural revolution, science and technology have crept their way into our definitions of humanity. Such ideologies are called “posthumanism” or “transhumanism.” Transhumanism is an intellectual movement that represents human interest in the use of technology to improve human minds and bodies. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of the great works to have come out of this philosophy. The novel is an excellent representation of transhumanist ideas and especially their