Qs.3. Frankenstein continues to occupy the popular imagination as a monstrous scientist. Analyze some of the ways in which Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
Our technology is developing too fast in nowadays, it seems technology is become more powerful than human. A fear of the technology would be occurred as the technology has surpassed our humanity. Will the technology replace and take control with the human in the future?
The writer Orlin Damyanov point out in the article [1] Technology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer as our technology is developing too fast in nowadays, it seems technology is become more powerful than human. A newborn fear would be occurred. Will technology take over and control us in the future? As at the being, Frankenstein was created by human and he is obey and serve the human. However, at last, he has the power to destroy his creator and to resist the human society. It means that technology is becoming a danger thing. If technology was become too powerful, it may lose control and would cause the danger effect. If we haven’t got any solution and take the well balance within the two, technology may cause dangerous effects on nature and our human life. In a worse, the Frankenstein --technology would replace the human and take control with the human in the future.
From John J. Fanning article [2] How Does Technology Affect You? He point out that, technology is totally affect us. As in his article he told us that at Japan's largest telephone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NT&T) have developed some startling new technology, which call "Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) ". It can turn humans into remote controlled automatons, as the human brain can be works on the electrical impulses. From this GVS system, we can see that the technology is totally controlling us. We can enter the command to the GVS system and it may release the electrical impulses to then human brains so the human call receive the electrical impulses and take action with this command. As he said “this mind-controlling technology had deprive humans of control over their own mind and body should be worthy of debate as to its very existence.” This is a danger thing that the technology is more powerful than human. As at the beginning, technology is created by human but in nowadays, the situation has been reversed. It seems it is similar to the case of Frankenstein, technology has became resisted human, and technology has been took control of the human. It is the time that we should concern about this moral question of the technology is totally affected or it should said that the technology is totally taking control us.
From [3] Technology vs. Humanity, which is written by a psychotherapist --Michael J. Hurd from the Capitalism Magazine, he point out that the technology has surpassed our humanity. Although the technology is devise and give birth by the human, however, in nowadays, our technology has seems surpassed our humanity. As we were rely in these technologies too much, such as mobile phone, saving medicine, etc. If we hadn’t get these things in our daily life, we seems we will not still alive. The Technology is become so powerful and it seems it is over controlling us. Our daily life is controlling by these technologies. Therefore, at the end of Michael J. Hurd article, he remind us we should not rely on the technologies so much as we may lose our humanity if we were so fascinated in it. He believes that our human mind is the best. As I will talk his point to discuss about we should not let them to over controlling us and we need to talk a balance between the technology and our humanity.
[4] Will technology change humanity, or has it already? is written by Robin Pierro from Canada Free Press. As Robin Pierro was concerning of the people who were following the technology tend so insensitively due to the fast growing of the technology would let us lose our humanity. Nowadays, technology is seems controlling us. As most of the people would like to keep follow the updated technology things such as mobile phone, mp3 players, etc. It seems the technology has became a dominant role. It guides the people to work with it. The technology has been changing our humanity already. The writer said, “People already rely on machines to do things for them to much. Our species is becoming incompetent, because we have machines to do everything for us. In the future I just see it, people will become so lazy and incompetent, and machines will take over.” We may lose control of all other technology advances. As we don’t want to be like that in the future, we should stop and slow down a bit to think about our relationship between technology and us. We should take a balance for it and don’t just follow the tend so dead so we may not let the technology over controlling us.
[5] Humanity Among Technology is written by the free article sharing website—hypnodean.com by Dean Montalbano. In the article, he shares the opinion that we should keep our humanity in this technological world. Nowadays, we can do everything we want at home as we just need to go online and click a button for pay the bill, go shopping and chat with friends, etc. He brings up the idea that our home is just like a personal castle, we trapped ourselves at home and it is also trapped by the technology as he said much of our humanity has gotten swept aside. It decrease the chance for us to communicate with people face to face, it decrease the chance for us to enjoy our natural environment such as our sunshine, the fresh air from the outside, etc. Why we don’t take a chance to talk with people face to face rather than talk with them through the electromagnetic waves. Do we dependent on the technology too much? It seems technology is control over us, so our humanity has been gotten swept aside by the technology. Therefore, we should talk some time to have self-examination to our humanity among technology.
[6] If We Fear Technology, We Really Fear Ourselves is written by Dr William Reville from The Irish Times. As Dr William Reville thinks that technology is natural just as same as natural as human, if we fear the technology, it is fear ourselves. The technology has been appear at the very being of our world such as the people would use a tool to hunt an animal at the past so technology was appearing in a very natural way. However, as our technology was developing in a fastest way, our mind of fear has been appeared. We feared about the technology will over controlling us in the future. At last, Dr William Reville said we no need to fear about our technology because it is natural just as same as natural as human, so we should accept that technology is a natural product of human activity and a natural extension of the human capacity. As we all come from natural, so we should appreciate and to make a well use of our technology.
References:
[1] Orlin Damyanov , Technology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5972/gibson.html (accessed 27 March 2008)
Our technology is developing too fast in nowadays, it seems technology is become more powerful than human. A fear of the technology would be occurred as the technology has surpassed our humanity. Will the technology replace and take control with the human in the future?
The writer Orlin Damyanov point out in the article [1] Technology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer as our technology is developing too fast in nowadays, it seems technology is become more powerful than human. A newborn fear would be occurred. Will technology take over and control us in the future? As at the being, Frankenstein was created by human and he is obey and serve the human. However, at last, he has the power to destroy his creator and to resist the human society. It means that technology is becoming a danger thing. If technology was become too powerful, it may lose control and would cause the danger effect. If we haven’t got any solution and take the well balance within the two, technology may cause dangerous effects on nature and our human life. In a worse, the Frankenstein --technology would replace the human and take control with the human in the future.
From John J. Fanning article [2] How Does Technology Affect You? He point out that, technology is totally affect us. As in his article he told us that at Japan's largest telephone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NT&T) have developed some startling new technology, which call "Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) ". It can turn humans into remote controlled automatons, as the human brain can be works on the electrical impulses. From this GVS system, we can see that the technology is totally controlling us. We can enter the command to the GVS system and it may release the electrical impulses to then human brains so the human call receive the electrical impulses and take action with this command. As he said “this mind-controlling technology had deprive humans of control over their own mind and body should be worthy of debate as to its very existence.” This is a danger thing that the technology is more powerful than human. As at the beginning, technology is created by human but in nowadays, the situation has been reversed. It seems it is similar to the case of Frankenstein, technology has became resisted human, and technology has been took control of the human. It is the time that we should concern about this moral question of the technology is totally affected or it should said that the technology is totally taking control us.
From [3] Technology vs. Humanity, which is written by a psychotherapist --Michael J. Hurd from the Capitalism Magazine, he point out that the technology has surpassed our humanity. Although the technology is devise and give birth by the human, however, in nowadays, our technology has seems surpassed our humanity. As we were rely in these technologies too much, such as mobile phone, saving medicine, etc. If we hadn’t get these things in our daily life, we seems we will not still alive. The Technology is become so powerful and it seems it is over controlling us. Our daily life is controlling by these technologies. Therefore, at the end of Michael J. Hurd article, he remind us we should not rely on the technologies so much as we may lose our humanity if we were so fascinated in it. He believes that our human mind is the best. As I will talk his point to discuss about we should not let them to over controlling us and we need to talk a balance between the technology and our humanity.
[4] Will technology change humanity, or has it already? is written by Robin Pierro from Canada Free Press. As Robin Pierro was concerning of the people who were following the technology tend so insensitively due to the fast growing of the technology would let us lose our humanity. Nowadays, technology is seems controlling us. As most of the people would like to keep follow the updated technology things such as mobile phone, mp3 players, etc. It seems the technology has became a dominant role. It guides the people to work with it. The technology has been changing our humanity already. The writer said, “People already rely on machines to do things for them to much. Our species is becoming incompetent, because we have machines to do everything for us. In the future I just see it, people will become so lazy and incompetent, and machines will take over.” We may lose control of all other technology advances. As we don’t want to be like that in the future, we should stop and slow down a bit to think about our relationship between technology and us. We should take a balance for it and don’t just follow the tend so dead so we may not let the technology over controlling us.
[5] Humanity Among Technology is written by the free article sharing website—hypnodean.com by Dean Montalbano. In the article, he shares the opinion that we should keep our humanity in this technological world. Nowadays, we can do everything we want at home as we just need to go online and click a button for pay the bill, go shopping and chat with friends, etc. He brings up the idea that our home is just like a personal castle, we trapped ourselves at home and it is also trapped by the technology as he said much of our humanity has gotten swept aside. It decrease the chance for us to communicate with people face to face, it decrease the chance for us to enjoy our natural environment such as our sunshine, the fresh air from the outside, etc. Why we don’t take a chance to talk with people face to face rather than talk with them through the electromagnetic waves. Do we dependent on the technology too much? It seems technology is control over us, so our humanity has been gotten swept aside by the technology. Therefore, we should talk some time to have self-examination to our humanity among technology.
[6] If We Fear Technology, We Really Fear Ourselves is written by Dr William Reville from The Irish Times. As Dr William Reville thinks that technology is natural just as same as natural as human, if we fear the technology, it is fear ourselves. The technology has been appear at the very being of our world such as the people would use a tool to hunt an animal at the past so technology was appearing in a very natural way. However, as our technology was developing in a fastest way, our mind of fear has been appeared. We feared about the technology will over controlling us in the future. At last, Dr William Reville said we no need to fear about our technology because it is natural just as same as natural as human, so we should accept that technology is a natural product of human activity and a natural extension of the human capacity. As we all come from natural, so we should appreciate and to make a well use of our technology.
References:
[1] Orlin Damyanov , Technology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5972/gibson.html (accessed 27 March 2008)
[2] John J. Fanning, How Does Technology Affect You?
http://www.chiefengineer.org/content/content_display.cfm/seqnumber_content/2325.htm (accessed 28 March 2008)
[3] Michael J. Hurd, Technology vs. Humanity on Capitalism Magazine ( 2001) http://capmag.com/article.asp?id=152 (accessed 28 March 2008)
[4] Robin Pierro, Will technology change humanity, or has it already? (2005)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/robin022805.htm (accessed 25 March 2008)
[5] Dean Montalbano, Humanity Among Technology on hypnodean.com (2008)
http://www.hypnodean.com/humanity.htm(2/2008) (accessed 25 March 2008)
[6] William Reville, If We Fear Technology, We Really Fear Ourselves on The Irish Times (1999) http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=1988 (accessed 25 March 2008)
4 comments:
Carrie,
You did a nice webliography with a detailed explanation. Generally, technology is developed so as to serve human, and your webliography brings a good point that technology has already become more powerful than human by giving an interesting example of ‘human brain can be work on the electrical impulses’. Besides, you also point out that humanity will be lost due to human’s dependency on technology, which can also explain why people fear of technology. I believe that your work would be more comprehensive if more aspects of technological impact could be examined in your webliography. On the whole, your webliography is quite useful in the question of Frankenstein, and your point has inspiring me a lot!
Adelaide
Carrie’s webliography gives sufficient information and explanations to show that Frankenstein continues to haunt in recent technologies. I agree with Carrie that technology is developing very fast. It is no doubt to say that technology really helps is a lot. However, technology is actually threatening us nowadays. It is so powerful that we may not notice it in our daily lives. We may not know when we are using it. Moreover, our lives may get into a situation of confusion without the help of technology. For instance, many big companies nowadays are already using a complex computing system to run their business. The workers always rely on the computers and networks. They will not know how to do if there are problems with the system. Besides, most people have mobile phones and we rely on them. We will feel nervous if we have forgotten to bring our mobile phones. It obviously reveals that technology has high opportunity to take over human.
After reading the webliography, I got a question that is it the technology really controlling people or human being. Maybe, technology really has the power to control human’s mind if we depends a lot of them. So, the point is we need to get a balance on using the technology in the daily life. Don’t make it become threaten to your life, if technology becomes more and more powerful, it is danger to us. So, we must concerns this problem from now on.
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