Negative impact of technology on humanity.
I have chosen the topic "negative impact of technology on humanity" as my cyberpunk.
I think topic is something that is important to look at as the world today is developed around technology. How could we even survive without technology. It has a huge impact on our lifes, wherever we turn there is technology in form of a mobilephone, laptopp, tv, microwave and so on. I am not a good internet searcher (but I have become much better after this course), but I managed to find a page that involves this issue. http://www.cyberpunkwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Cyberpunk%3F.
My topic has a following description on the tutespark blog: "Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes".
On this page there is a link to an youtube movie about what cyberpunk is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80jhU6t-VA&feature=player_embedded.
Cyberpunk is according to the first link: "Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future".
they kind of highlight the issues according to for example technology in an ironic way, so that we will recieve the message.
i managed to find a video on youtube that is named: The Role of Technology in Society. This ia video that shows how family life has been impact with technology over the years, and how it is affecting the families everyday life. Back in the old days before TV arrived the family sat around the table together to have dinner, then came the TV and soon the attention around the dinner table was at the TV box. After the TV came all the other technology, like discman, mobilephone, gameboys, MP3`s, laptop and so on, and suddenly the family life was all about these inventions, not about each other. It is quite often we see a mother walking around with the baby carriage and talkes on their cellphone. Especially cellphones impact not just our lifes but evryone around us as well. We talk on the phone while we are driving and risk being hurt in traffic, we are constantly by our phones ready to answer everytime a message ticks in no matter where we are. We often see people walking around with their head down texting. How will this use of cellphone affects our health in the future as it is already affecting us a lot. this video shows exactly what i am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-iiYRe5KE. (I have problems uploading the videos so I can only share the links.)
After watching this movie I suddenly think of all the newsstories that pups up in the papers from time to time about cellphones and the cancer risk. Since cellphones has not existed for so long it has been difficult to do a lot of research on this problem, but they have found out that it could have an effect on for exampe brain cancer and other tissues. I know this is not a very current news story right now, but I have to say that I think this issue is quite current anyway, and tehy are still doing a lot of research on it, and there will always be released new dicoveries on this field. For a couple of months ago there was a story in one of Norways top news papers about how carefully parents should be when they buy cellphones for their kids. I have tried to find the news story again, but it is not possible. Well i remember I read the article, and it said that researchers find out new things about cellphones impact on our health everyday, and the cancer risk. They claim that talking a lot in the phone gives a higher risk of getting brain cancer, having your phone in your pocket can may even make you steril, and sleeping with your phone next to bed can disturb your sleep. The articke said that to give a cellphone to a six year old was not very wise because of all these new founds, and if you are going to give them one, you should have restricions on how they should use them and how many hours per day. I did some research online and found a page where they explain a lot about cellphone and why it could be danger. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones.
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