Technology's role and Humankind
Humans certainly have this ability to live our everyday lives without the extreme use of the constant technology around. It's like people have become so dependent on it to live our daily lives that it’s almost like an incurable addiction for us. In the Pixar movie “Wall-e”, the human race have destroyed planet earth due to their lack of care for our very environment. They then are sadly forced to move and then into living in space on a ship called the Axiom because the planet is inhabitable to support any type of life (Wall-e). The character Wall-e is just one of many robots who were created to help clean up the planet (Wall-e). The movie isn't going out and saying that we should just get rid of technology completely
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It is a factor that can be seen to be a huge impact leading to the environmental apocalypse just as in Wall-E. Technology and machines are initially here to help humans with whatever it may be we need assitance in. But as time goes on, people tendency to rely on machines grows to such an extent that machines become indispensable. Instead of humanity controlling technology, humanity starts being controlled by it. Wall-E provides some powerful and startling images that depict this reversal of power dynamics, something that gives us one more sneak peek into the possible reasons for an avoidable environmental apocalypse. Almost eighty minutes into the movie, there is a scene where the humans fall over one another and somehow manage to congregate in relative safety. It is at that instance when the machines that used to carry and in a way shelter them, start tumbling towards them in an alarming way. This image of the seemingly harmless machines about to fall on the frightened humans is a powerful image of the people's helplessness when confronted with its own creation. This image shows that the machines can be lethal while coming across as seemingly harmless and even beautiful like
The Book of Revelation and the movie WALL-E serve as distinct forms of apocalyptic literature to expose the reality of the human condition beneath the surface. Even though there are blatant disconnects between the two, they both share common ground as criticisms of society and to warn humanity of its coming judgement. The Book of Revelation and WALL-E offer a frightening yet rectifiable future for humanity by remaining loyal to its “core values”.
In Wall-E there is a robot designed to clean the inhospitable earth in order for the human societies to come back. In the waste land, trash fills the streets and oceans completely dry up. The land is so hostile that the all the other robots break down and Wall-E is the only robot left. During
Even Aristotle commented on it in his book “Peri Psyches,” which was the first book on human behavior. Paraphrased, the basic idea of what he said was that people seek pleasure and avoid pain. Seeking security is a theme in both Fahrenheit 451 and WALL-E because people draw comfort from what is nice and easy, and in an attempt to make people more comfortable, both of their societies removed all things that were not. In WALL-E, the people had to do no work themselves. Robots were at their sides at all moments to do everything for them. Even the captain didn’t know what had happened to earth, asking when he saw images of Earth, where the sky or the green grass was. All troubles and worries were removed from their lives, allowing them easy and security in that comfort. In Fahrenheit 451, despite the fact that her husband was clearly distressed, Mildred was more focussed about speaking about what the wallscreens had played that day. When Montag told Mildred, distressed and traumatised, what had happened that day, saying “‘We burnt a old woman with her books’”. Mildred responded by saying that “‘It’s a good thing the rug’s washable’” and “‘I went to Helen’s last night’” (49-50), completely disregarding what he said and changing the subject. She went on to speak about what she’d been watching and how she enjoyed going to Helen’s house and watching here parlour, all the while ignoring her
...nd nature and the consequence of humankind overindulging in the superfluous luxuries that are beyond the necessities of food, shelter, clothing and fuel. Perhaps Wall-e is a message that the transcendentalist beliefs of Emerson and Thoreau should still be uplifted today, or maybe it was unintentional that the modern popularity of environmentally friendly movements encloses the fossil messages.
A dependence on technology will not create a utopian society. Relying on technology for everything can create disruption of people’s bonds and love towards family members, disruption in people’s emotions and feelings and disruption to people physically.
.... By comparison, Pixar contrives a more exultant ending. Humanity has now been restored to earth, and the two robotic companions, Eve and Wall-E, fall in love as the story ends. In conclusion, humans being overly dependent on technology can be evident in both dramatic stories; this is because the authors overstress the extravagant yet possible outcome due to overuse of technology. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (“Brainy Quotes” 1).
We already have automated machines designed to make life easier for us: vacuum cleaners, car washes, dishwashers, laundry machines, litter-box scoopers, etc. We have many automated technologies that we can set to our personal preference, such as Tv and radio stations, thermostats, lighting, etc. Bill Gates even has a feature in his house that will switch out different paintings depending on who is standing in the room. We humans like shortcuts and simple luxuries, but with technology taking away so much of our workload we are enabling ourselves to be lazy. We are already dependent on technology. In the least, we are already severely addicted to it. How many hours are spent wasted glued to our cell phones, watching Tv or surfing the web? How would you communicate with your friends and family without telephones or email? How would we cook without our gas/electric stoves and microwaves? How would we store our food without refrigeration? How would we see at night? How would we get around? Obviously, we are already in over our heads with our relationship to
Computers, TVs, and various other electronics not only hold the capacity to destroy humanity, but already began to extinguish it. Because of these inventions, people of all ages are affected negatively. Society’s social skills and morals dramatically decreased since the thriving of technology. Some people do not see the downsides to these sources of entertainment; all they see is the pros and do not want to change anything about the amount of usage of these inventions. But what happens when the world reaches a point in time where humans will not be able to function normally without these sources of entertainment because of their addictions to them? Does that not seem like something the world should be worried about?
One of the films that deal greatly with the effects of overconsumption on the environment is the animated motion picture WALL-E (2008). The movie is set on Earth in the year 2805 where the Earth is a barren wasteland, void of any signs of life (save for cockroaches).
...ecome alarming as these machines could become very complex. With new forms of computers on the horizon, the exposure and availability is greatly increasing. It is true that computers bring a lot of benefits however they also enhance the potential for unimaginable chaos. The day will come, sooner than we expect, when humans will no longer be needed to maintain the earth. Computers will for instance, be able to control vehicles and other devices. Providing all the computers are programmed correctly then nothing can go wrong however if one small program fails this could result in disaster. As humans we must take heed of the power of computers and try to maintain our role in the world as the ruling beings and ensure that we are still in a position where we are able to control technology as it will be all too easy to suddenly discover that technology is controlling us.
The film WALL-E underlines the environmental issue of humanity’s irresponsibility in caring for Earth. It begins by negatively conveying the planet. Just as the lyrics of Put On Your Sunday Clothes (non-diegetic sound) get to, “Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby,” the Earth is shown: musty and surrounded in haze, using colour symbolism to portray age and lifelessness. The lyrics and the vision of the Earth juxtapose, contrasting the ideas of what was and what is. The haze is actually space debris, an example of humans having directly disregarded their environment.
Technology has been growing throughout the years, always changing and evolving in all new ways. It has become almost a second nature to us by now, to use technology on anything and everything. We use technology for the smallest things, such as looking up the recipe for your next meal, or the name of an actor, or just to check up on a friend. It seems to be that the more technology develops, the more addicted and the more dependent we become. If one were to analyze and really think about how many times we use technology a day, we will start to realize how much it has consumed us. Just think about how many times a day you see someone on their phone, or on a computer. You will start to realize how addicted we are. It’s so common for us to use and see people use technology, that we take it for granted and never think twice about it. However, is becoming this dependent on technology a bad thing? I feel as though we depend a lot on technology
Technology now literally controls the world and what goes on. The economy is dependent on the use of technology, but there are minor creation that don’t really have a use at all and can be done without it. So again my opinion is that technology is need in life, but at times it isn’t that use. Things that can be done by technology can sometimes be done by without it.
Technology is making our life easier than before, but are we getting too much dependent on it? Technology is getting improved by past decades. It has become a part and parcel in everyday life. Without it, people would have a lot of trouble to keep pace with the whole world. At the same time, todays new generations incredibly dependent on it. They do not want to use their brain as there are lots of search engines they can easily access and can find out what they want. Technology creates problems about pollution and global warming and at the same time people are using technology to reduce these problems. Overdependence on technology is harmful for humans’ existence because it creates addiction that makes people inactive, decrease job opportunities and causes physical or mental disorders that is a great threat for mans’ life.
Humans used to be able to kill mammoths and a lot of stuff we think is just crazy now a days. There’s always the risk of evolution of humans becoming weaker and weaker. Humans are already weaker than we used to be. Technology can be making our eyes worse or our body’s less physique than they are. We cannot predict what will happen from the technology that we are so dependent on now a days. It might be for good or it might be for bad. I generally speaking think that technology can help us evolve. The possibilities you can take technology is endless well until you run out of resources in the next million years or two but yeah. Technology could lead us to possibilities that we thought were just impossible. I mean think about it the endless possibilities the endless minds making endless inventions. Technology wise we are constantly evolving and our understanding of technology is getting better and better. Yet our understanding of other things are getting worse. The more we rely on technology the more our weakness grows. The weakness of being addicted, eyestrain, several others are possible through the technology that we love so much. The more we open up to technology the more the future generation is more likely to have those