THE FUTURE

Obviously I can see a lot of government authority and control going on in what I read/saw. But what seemed to stand out in my mind when I went through this blog assignment was the podcast “Welcome to Night Vale”. It sounded like the opening to a “Goosebumps” movie because of the way the man talked (now to get back on track). We see especially in Night Vale and “Night of the Living Dead” is the control of government because in the podcast it talks about how we shouldn’t go near the dog park, Why? Now that the question because we (the public) don’t know what’s going on or who those shadowed people are either. You have to report everything you see to higher authority and it makes me hope that our society never really gets to that point where we have to check out our front door to see if we can leave the house.

Something else that drew my eye was the PBS short film and how he talked about zombies relating to technology and how we are scared of it. Luddites that are people afraid of technology went around and destroyed whatever they saw that related to technology, Why? Because they hated it, it gave them the creep I guess. But he had a good point going on in this, which was that zombies take over society, like iPhones spreading across society like a disease like a zombie. I found this very interesting. Also we see the “Hunger Games” brought up in this because rich people are favored in this movie while everyone else is left for dead, this is a controlling government. Higher authority taking care of there own while not caring or the rest, no equality. In the end we see that higher authority is seizing the power from the people to only benefit and take care of themselves. This is so true because it relates to Harrison Bergeron, this was pretty much the story of how one guy might out smart the system so they took him away from society to get rid of him. This makes me think that anything can happen in our society because we have a government that can’t sit with one concept for very long, and also our government loves to enforce rules. This makes me thinking of BIG BROTHER someone is always watching you. Since this world is turning into a heavy technology era, I can see the government using that to their own advantage. Have you ever looked at the new iPhone 5S? Well if you haven’t, you can now unlock your phone with your fingerprint and do other cool things with that. But its like your giving your own identity away to technology consumers because everyone is hacking these days. Just relaying this information back to where we started, government influences us and we seem to just nod it off and I really don’t think we should do that. Overall I think this will be a interesting unit to do in class and hear what everyone is thinking.