E-learning and Digital Culture

This blog is part of a MOOC I am taking on Coursera.

lördag 15 november 2014

Technology and a Dystopian World

There have been many dystopias in literature and on film over the past hundred years, but the first one that I always think of is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner with Harrison Ford running around a dark and rainy future world chasing 'replicants', who are human-looking robots designed as work force on off-worlds. The feeling you get in the film, made in 1982, is that even though technology is everywhere the world is a dark and failing world with little light and little hope. It's interesting to look at the film and realise just how little we can predict the future. If you compare our digital world with its online connectivity and the isolated world of Harrison Ford's Deckard it could seem like complete opposites. But maybe the social media online is just the first stage of humans alienating themselves from each other? Maybe digital closeness is a first step to alienation?

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