Today as technology becomes more advanced, humans become more dependent on it using anything from artificially intelligent robots such as a Google Home or Echo. Times are clearly different compared to the 20th century. For example, referencing Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, instead of reading books to use homework, we use computers and are building our culture upon show business and television. Walking down the street or being anywhere in public, I always see a hand glued to a phone. I can say I am guilty of walking and texting and almost bumping into something (not a proud moment). But because of me staring down at my phone, that was a time I was oblivious to my surroundings. So, this all brings me to wonder: Are we going to end up like the humans on WALL-E with all of these technological advancements and how much time is put into staring at a screen each day?Fifty or one-hundred years from now, are we going to forget to look up and away from these screens? Is technology pulling us away from human contact? Will we focus so much on technology we forget how to have face-to- face conversations with other people?
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Is Disney's movie WALL-E predicting the future ?
Watching Disney Pixar's movie WALL-E today, I noticed it was a little ahead of its time when it first came out but not far from it looking at technology in today's world right now. We know WALL-E is the last robot on Earth, cleaning up what the humans left behind before they migrated to somewhere else in space. Then he meets Eve, another robot who was sent back to Earth for a mission where WALL-E ends up leaving with her where the humans are revealed. All of the humans end up appearing obese, moving around in remote-controlled chairs with screens in front of their faces, totally oblivious of their surroundings.
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I can definitely see the human race doing all that considering the statistics; however, lets not forget that we do occasionally like to play sports with friends outside and have new health trends motivating us to stay healthy. The technology is pulling us away from human contact, but only to bring us back again later. After all, a virtual picnic just wouldn't taste as good.
ReplyDeleteI agree, more often then not people are more focused on their devices then their surroundings. I think it is definitely possible for humans to rely further and further on technologies as they begin to advance. For an example, many people don't know how to read a clock because they just rely on what their phones say. There are countless more examples where humans rely heavily on tech...I think it's quite possible that in a hundred years we will become something like the people from WALL-E. The only way to stop this, I think, is taking a step back once in a while and not relying so heavily on technology.
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