Utopia vs. Dystopia: UTOPIA: Limits the citizen’s lifestyle. The residents are born into a permanent caste system‚ all the citizens are at the absolute mercy of 10 World Controllers‚ and they are conditioned and brainwashed into emotionless cyborgs. The castes are divided into Alphas‚ Betas‚ Gammas‚ Deltas‚ and Epsilons. Each individual caste is then broken down into sub levels‚ for instance (from lowest to highest): Alphas can have Alpha minus‚ Alpha‚ Alpha Plus‚ and Alpha Double Plus. The
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In the year 1986 a health care policy was established. This policy is known as the “Health Care Engineering Policy Committee”. Carl Mitchem (1990) describes that this policy was made to safeguard humans from engineering experiments. He also states that a good decision making process should be endured before ultimately proceeding with these practices. (p. 229) Although this policy was made in order to keep people safe from engineering practices‚ we still face ethical dilemmas due to the engineering
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Today‚ people view video games as childish nonsense‚ wasted technology that does nothing but hurt the minds of our children. But in the 1980s‚ one man thought to change that simple idea‚ showing that video games can be used as messengers for a larger purpose. In the Metal Gear Solid series‚ Hideo Kojima criticizes social‚ political‚ and cultural issues through video games by introducing today’s generation to fears of nuclear fallout and technological anxiety‚ the government control of information
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The Year was 2069. Queen Elizabeth was yet to abdicate her throne. With the advancement of the Internet of Things‚ the line between robot and human has become blurred. Ever since she took hold of the largest cyborg manufacturing company‚ people have been getting suspicious...but the last thing on the Queen’s mind is sharing her power. The Duchess approached the queen and bowed. “Catherine.” said Queen Elizabeth‚ grinning toothily. “Your majesty.” Catherine shot a glance up at her grandmother-in-law
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Lecture 2: The Technological Society What is Technology? • Defining technology presents a common challenge in that scholars have proposed many different definitions. • Socio-technical perspective: The study of how social factors affect technological and scientific developments. What is Technology? cont’d • Technology has been defined as: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Material Substance Knowledge Practice Technique Society What was the original purpose of technology? • To relieve us of menial tasks
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Throughout the history of literature and film‚ women have been portrayed in endless ways. Women have been depicted as being helpless‚ ruthless‚ motherly‚ or weak among many others. The most common portrayal of women‚ in my opinion‚ is that we are either objects of desire or subservient to the more "superior" gender‚ that is‚ men. In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Theresa Cha’s Dictee‚ women are‚ indeed‚ portrayed in different ways. I want to compare the representation of women from both works of
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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE IS BEING BLURRED. TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE? The comparison between man and machine has always been controversial‚ whether in area of work or entertainment. A common question‚ "How different are they from us?" We would used to say looks‚ movements and thoughts are what would differentiate us from them. As technology advances‚ such differences are less likely to exist‚ further blurring the distinction between them and man. However‚ no matter how machines become
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Bruno Latour’s notion of nonhuman actors and Donna Haraway’s notion of the companion species are both concepts that are based around the view that humans are not alone in the creation and maintenance of society. They are unique concepts as animals are so often excluded from the sociological field. Jim Johnson states ‘the most liberal sociologist often discriminates against nonhumans’ (1988 p.1). Both Haraway and Latour seek to change this. Haraway has a background in science‚ with a PhD in biology
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Throughout the pop culture of science-fiction and action comics‚ video games and films‚ sequences of super-human experimentation proved effective over enemies. The Pentagon has been bringing the idea of an Ironman or Superman-like combatant to life by developing methods to enhance American soldiers towards forming a the most advanced‚ efficient military (Jacobsen). These methods stem from biotechnology‚ dating back thousands of years ago‚ and during the biotechnology revolution of the late 20th century
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University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison‚ essentially turned back the clock for adult skin cells‚ allowing these mature cells‚ which were preprogrammed to become skin‚ to act like embryonic stem cells. 5. At number 5 is the concept of cyborgs that is‚ half-machine‚ half-humans‚ becoming a reality in the last decade‚ as much progress has been made with people controlling robotic limbs and computers with their minds. 6. At nubmer 6 is an astronomer seeing alien planets‚ or "exoplanets"
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