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For some reason, I really want to say that the movie Black Panther. Black Panther is a movie that most of you have probably seen, so I won’t describe it, but I think it loosely fits the criteria. I think I get this idea mostly from watching the video linked. The video and the movie are closely related. Wakanda is the city where everybody lives, and their city is powered mostly by the unnatural metal, Vibranium. Wakanda is set in the modern-day as well. Black Panther does not show specifically how they produce their food, but you have to know that the city is not struggling. This could be because they use a small amount of land inside their barrier effectively, as the video says.
Honestly, I think I am onto something here. I would say that the innovation proposed, even though it is impossible, is the use of Vibranium to cleanly and efficiently power Wakanda. Wakanda’s people rely on this metal to power their city and advance their subculture past the outside world. This answers both of the final two questions.
I could be far off, but I think I am close enough to spark discussion.
Levi, when I first read your blog post, I thought that it aligned more with eco-futurism. I have since changed my mind. I think the game you described would be entertaining to play, and I am glad you chose to use it. I also believe that your game fits the prompt of the forum well, but how does the game display humans? You said that human activity helps prevent issues from getting worse in the climate, but you did not elaborate. Does the game depict a single city that has survived the rising ocean levels? If you could explain a little more, I would enjoy that.
A game featuring eco-modernism is foreign to me, however. Is this game more of a time-wasting game, or is there a plot/ story? I know you said you could invest in technologies that pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and water later in the game, but I am not sure that this means there is a plot.
One of my favorite SCI-FI movies is Ender’s Game. This movie, which was based on a book written by Orson Scott Card, is about a boy who lives in a future world that has been endangered by alien beings. The aliens attacked Earth, but one famous pilot risked his life to take out the mothership with hopes of disabling the other Aliens. It turns out the extraterrestrials were hive creatures, so the attempt worked. They were not safe yet, however. The aliens stationed on a planet not far from Earth, which gave Earth a heavy suspicion that they would attack again. The climax gives this movie’s theme, but I would rather not spoil the movie, so I will give the theme that I discovered without evidence. I believe a few of the corresponding themes that I gather from this movie have to deal with greed, corruption, and a lack of compassion for others. This movie highlights the ideas that are present in our society. For example, in the video discussing Geek Heresy, the author of the book relays that there is enough food in the world to feed everybody, but many people still starve. It’s near impossible to eradicate greed, corruption, and a lack of compassion, but these are things that we as humans need to strive for. Ender’s Game is an example of science fiction, giving its audience themes to think about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8
I hope that by inserting the link into the forum function, my video will also be displayed as everyone else’s has.
I have learned that the creation of the song above is mostly to do with censorship. Dennis Deyoung, the Styx keyboard player/singer, wrote this song in 1983. Three things largely influenced him to make this song. For the central theme of censorship, Dennis was influenced by a church in Iowa that opened in the early ’80s. This church burned albums that they considered having a satanic view. Styx was one of the bands who had their album burned because, in Greek Mythology, the river Styx runs through Hades or hell. This made Deyoung think about censorship, which formed the central concept of the song. His other inspirations were from a robot documentary that he watched, which showed how robots took over jobs from unskilled laborers. Deyoung’s final inspiration came after he visited Japan. Deyoung became fascinated with the culture and wanted to express his fascination with the song.
The story behind the song is as follows. Kilroy, who was a famous rockstar, was sent to prison. The prison he was sent to had robot workers replace the human workers. These robot workers were called “robotos.” Kilroy then escapes the jail inside a robot costume.
Deyoung displays censorship in the song in the story. Kilroy is imprisoned as a way of stopping him from making more music. Deyoung got this idea from his own albums being burned by the church. As you know, this theme is synonymous with one of Orwell’s prominent themes in his book, “1984.” This story also incorporated the idea of dehumanizing the working class. Robots replace the working class in this song’s story. This, for me, is Deyoung’s way of expressing a possible dystopian future.
I believe that this song is an excellent example of how SCI-FI has inspired music. This song also connects to the SCI-FI topics we have seen in our course work. It has popular themes that relate to “The Matrix” and “1984.” These themes being that robots will push humans out of society or take over the world when relating “The Matrix,” and censorship when relating “1984.”
Adam, your response is well written. The language and comparisons you used made the situation you address much more comfortable to follow. I would like to first comment solely on your article adaptation, where you imagined yourself as Winston “1984” trying to wipe away any negative news against North Korea. This approach is exceptionally creative, and as I cannot find the link to your adapted version, I will assume that you tried to wipe away the negative news from the world – not just North Korea. I am inclined to think that this approach might create a temporary utopia for the rest of the world but would not make a utopia for the neighboring countries. This approach fails to address the negative relationship between the two, and this approach keeps the conflict quiet from other countries. A situation may arise where North Korea may launch a nuclear attack the rest of the world does not know of because they do not know about the tensions between the two countries. Because of this, I would not like to live in your imagined, utopian world. I believe that Orwellian activity can only harm those that it affects.
I would like to specifically address Jacob Well’s closing comment, “with complete freedom and no restrictions human ingenuity shines.” This struck me as confident and true. I feel like I have been institutionalized to believe that with limitless innovation, the world would end, and robots would eradicate human life. However, no law says that this will happen. There could be many outcomes to limitless innovation, and Jacob has pointed out many of them. I would support the idea of limitless innovation for the positive possibilities, which I think would eclipse the negative possibilities.
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