Tuesday 30 April 2013

Future Technologies involving Globalisation

I was researching this in the first term of our 2nd year, for the art direction project, and I'm still thinking about it now. Post-humanism or transhumanism is the belief of a state beyond what we are now - forced evolution. These are things like androids; enhanced human body parts, whether through technology or drugs; and the scariest one i think, living in a virtual world/ mind uploading. 

So this is the belief that one day we will become so reliant on technology and the internet that we will one day develop the ability to upload ourselves digitally and live forever in this cyber world, leaving our human bodies behind. 

If this were to happen then everything would change, there would be no more countries or borders, even things like race and gender could be changed. It would be like social networking on a massive scale. You could upload/ download memories or thoughts to share around, communicate with anyone at any time... and this is just a tiny section of what would be possible. Very scary stuff and yet seems very likely the way things are changing today. 


I'm honestly unsure of what i think of all this... 

Ricky
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  1. Unknown30 April 2013 at 04:41

    The borders between countries and communities, will become non existent when you can utilise so much with just a thought.

    Ricky

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  2. Ruth Fogden1 May 2013 at 14:25

    We partially live forever in a cyber world now because once you upload a picture onto a social networking site it can stay on the internet forever. At the rate globalisation is increasing with new technology I wouldn't be surprised if our world became virtual.
    -Ruth

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  3. Ruth Fogden1 May 2013 at 14:27

    In addition, when I published my comment above I had to copy two words to prove I wasn't a robot.

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