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With Endless Space, Endless Legends, and Stellaris being my most recent sci-fi gaming experiences, I would like to focus on them. I believe that the themes of xenophobia vs. xenophilia can be heavily related to the racism we see today and movements like Black Lives Matter. For those who havent played these games before or other like them, generally you can choose to be friendly, neutral, or aggressive towards alien races (bird-people, insect-people, etc.) More than not in these games, when you choose to act aggressively towards other races or refuse to make alliances with you (just in general making peace) than thousands of alien and “non-alien” lives are lost as well as empire and civilizations. Alternatively, if a few groups of organisms were to make an alliance and establish trade routes, and etc. , then they have a better chance of surviving. If humans could just learn from this example and understand that everyones the same in the way that we just want to live and be happy and healthy and that or ethnicity shouldn’t mean abuse or death then the world would be a better place.
I read Adam’s utopia creative #2 and honestly found it relatable to the real world and terrifying. It is very much possible that one country can scare another into submission so much so that the media down plays serious events. In my option, neither the truth or the make believe in this situation is a utopia and if it was an option for me to change world’s, I’m not sure I’d want to.
This was a little bit difficult for me but I think I found something that might work.
I had to search my 300+ metal songs to find this beauty that my dad introduced to me years ago. Not only does the video have a sci-fi aesthetic (outfits, being on a space ship, neon yellow hair, other races, etc.) but the lyrics can of course be taken is a sci-fi context as well as convey a story or meaning.
“Now this is what it’s like when worlds collide”
While the concept of world’s colliding isn’t necessarily concerned with technology is a theme found in sci-fi. This is used to express a situation in which maybe things are going horribly wrong.
“You’ve got your system for total control”
This is clearly related to technology as they are on a space ship in the video and of course there is technology to drive it and help it function. This could mean that someone has a way to manipulate people to get what they want.
“You are a robot”
This one seems a little self-explanatory.
I won’t nit-pick all of them, maybe you guys can find some more. Let me know if you have any different interpretations from any I said.
I believe that there should be a balance of both. If there is too much freedom with no rules, then there can be fatal consequences and it could possibly drastically alter our daily lives. On the other hand, if there are too many rules then we risk essentially “nerfing” the potential of technology.
Unfortunetly, due to a massicve pothole by James, I twisted my ankle in a way ankle’s aren’t meant to be twisted and that threw a wrench in my plans to walk to Walmart. (Everyone over there please be careful!). That being said, I will at least try to save my grade by answering the questions to the best of my ability.
1) did any of these technologies exist before the 1950’s?
I know that on the way to Walmart / down chestnut street there are the cross walk talking things. These likely did not exist before the 50’s nor the security systems set up in the houses that you walk by (there are ADT yard signs, I promise i’m not a stalker)
2) are these technologies a significant part of your life?
YES! I literally dream about that stupid ticking that the walkways make and daily I have to cross one.
3) Imagine you are living in the decade before this tech existed. How would you try to convince people it should, or shouldn’t, be developed?
As for the home security, I would definetly advocate for something like that because I personally believe in the evil of all humans but I am not smart enough to event such thing and never have held much social power in my life to be able to convince someone to make such a thing. As for the crosswalks, no. Just teach everyone how to drive NOT like a maniac and hope everyone has enough common sense to cross when it is safe. Survival of the fittest ya’ll.
4) Imagine you are a visited by a time traveler from the near future (the year 2050). What do you think they would tell you about this technology?
30 years from now all of the technology we see today would probably be a joke to that generation of future children (like how we make fun of Nokia phones). Not to mention Moore’s Law where it is stated that technology grows exponentially.
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