Technology and Us
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Are we the masters or the slaves of our technologies? If we peruse the genre of science fiction the answer would seem to be the slaves. The world of the future as written within the realm of fiction is in general a dystopic one, a world in which our inability (or our lack of desire) to control the technologies that we have created brings havoc to the world and exposes the fact that we as a species have neither the intelligence nor the moral fiber to declare our independence from technology. Such anti-utopian visions of the future, along with the generally rising level of sophistication that exists among the population at large about the ways in which computer technologies work has made us believe that we are in many ways better prepared than were our predecessors of only a few years ago to meet any future challenges of our technology. But this may simply be a form of self-delusion (Fiore 41).Anyone who has ever read a fascinating book understands the ways in which one can become lost in a story, has had the experience of sitting down to finish a single chapter only to look up to find that hours have passed, the sun has set, and dinnertime has blended into bedtime. But reading even the most compelling book is a fundamentally different experience from "real life". When we put down a book we recognize that we are re-entering the realm of the ordinary. Such a distinction - between textual narrative and life - has become less and less clear, however, with new technologies. Certa
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