Techno$chaft Run Amuck?

"Does Ridley Scott's vision of the future seem plausible- will techno$chaft lead naturally to this disarray (what Mike Davis calls "dystopia")- or has he got something wrong?"
Thesis:
We believe that Ridley Scott's depiction of the future in Blade Runner is a possible view of the way that technology is negatively affecting the world, but that it was impacted by the production value needed to sell the movie. This is our group's analysis.






Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Technoschaft connections-

            -Globalization is what technoschaft is all about, being connected across the world examples of this in the movie include ‘city speak’ a mixture of Japanese, german, Spanish and other languages, showing that global connections can help shape the future of the Earth

            -Globalization also involves higher up people in companies investing back in the companies and trading within the companies, this can be seen in the movie when the CEO of the Tyrell Corp is sitting in bed trading stocks.

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Conclusion

So, did Ridley Scott create a probable future, a dystopia where techno$chaft takes over the human race?

 

Our analysis of the movie BladeRunner led us to believe that:

Technological advancements will negatively impact us through globalization. Obviously there are advancements like the invention of the wheel that have made life quite easier, but we think we have now developed a dependence on technology, and this in return will in fact be detrimental.

We don't know what the future holds but Scott provides one view, however it may be partially inaccurate due to the fact that everything had to be sexed up because it was a view created in Hollywood. Technology also isn't inevitably going to make life easier for everyone, although certain aspects of the movie were probable, including city speak and voice control. Scott overemphasized the negative aspects of modern cities to create an interesting movie, but the fact still remains that the things that got overemphasized, large corporations gained lots of power, there were extreme forms of advertising, dependence on technology, and increased surveillance and security do in fact exist in cities now, just to a lesser degree.

The most important part though, is that one should not completely believe that the future would inevitably resemble Blade Runner because Ridley Scott is a director, not an urban geographer.

 

If we could have conducted more research, we would have based our findings on actual theses by real urban geographers, and studied other movies, books and productions to see what other people said about this.