Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Week 8 TuteSpark and Activity

This tutorial is really difficult because cyberpunk is still a foreign term for me. I understand what it is, but I am still finding it difficult to understand its depth.

Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes.

Fear. It is a really common element in the world. The fear of sickness, death, etc.
Although millions of people communicate through mobile phones, many people fear their effects.
One negative impact on technology was through the video that went viral, about the popcorn.
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This video went viral through emails when it came out, showing what the radiation of our mobile phones can do to us. This creates so much fear in people, that it actually created a small drop in the amount of calls being made, and text messages statistics went up slightly.
is an article about radiation and the hidden health effects that the radiation of the mobile.

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