I like technology, and we’re fortunate to be residing at a time when most of us are experiencing the great evolution of technology. Every technology serves a different perform, But the potential spaces of overlap (utilizing your iPhone to observe streamed motion pictures as opposed to utilizing it to make a phone call or ship a text) makes, I believe, a precise definition of “new media” fairly difficult.
We’re already beneath huge surveillance from our governments, with the world beginning to look extra like George Orwell’s fictional 1984 novel than like the actual world which Orwell lived in when he wrote it. The true hazard, nonetheless, is the in energy that the analysis of this ‘big information’ provides government to not solely watch us, however to control and control us. I’m not necessarily speaking in regards to the kind of MK-Extremely mind-controlled murderer sort of management here – extra just like the type of control seen in promoting and social engineering, solely way more efficient.
Extra just lately, modern works of science fiction reminiscent of those by Philip K. Dick and William Gibson and movies akin to Blade Runner and Ghost within the Shell mission highly ambivalent or cautionary attitudes …