Technophobia & Cinema

Choking in a thick industrial smoke of confusion, people all around the world are struggling to come to grips with technology. Not unlike any other major issue in today's society, the population is divided on this matter. Like immature children, a small portion of the population is naively optimistic. People that fit this particular mold, like me probably have visions of beaming from place to place and materializing cheese at home instead of going shopping …

…served us as utilities, these creatures of metal and digital data are our replacement; they who will reign in this next stage of earth’s evolution. Engineers and other proponents of technology can be astonishingly convincing, but I have a feeling that this overwhelming sense of technophobia will be around for a long time, and may even worsen due to the increased pace with which technological advances are being made in lieu of ethical ones.