The Role Of Technology In The Terminatorand Idiocracy

Is Technology a Friend or Foe? Movies are dramatic and made to entertain, but at the same time they call attention to a multitude of dilemmas in societies that some people are blind to. Through the dystopian films, The Terminatorand Idiocracy, we see that technology was originally created as a source of help for mankind, but through continuous use and abuse, technology will begin to harm more than help mankind. Both films relied heavily on technology to solve their problems, but in The Terminator, technology is portrayed as dangerous because it is so powerful and indestructible that it becomes stronger than mankind can handle. The main characters, Kyle and Sarah, went through hell and back trying to escape the wrath of the

The main characters, Joe and Rita, awakened 500 years later, in 2505, to a trash-filled future and found a society of people with diminished intelligence. These people were clearly idiots (hence the film’s title). For instance, Joe awakened feeling sick and confused about his whereabouts, so he went to the nearest hospital to get tested and treated. One doctor basically told him that he was diagnosed as a retard because he “talked like a fag”. The doctor told him that he just needed to “chill out” and he’ll get better. This expressed how unintelligent and unqualified that doctor was. All of the doctors in the hospital used machines and pictures to come up with vague implications of diagnostics because they were all unintelligent and didn’t know any better. Just imagine everyone else in that society who have real problems that do not get treated properly because the doctors aren’t intelligent enough to help. This poses a serious danger to the society. For example, sick people wouldn't get treated properly so disease would spread faster, leading to faster mortality as well. A dumb society is a dangerous society. Also, that scene and mostly all the scenes in this film were shown in bright-lighting to express humor and bliss with society’s ignorance. The characters wore

One weird coincidence is that in Idiocracy a famous boxer was the President of 2505, and today America has a “celebrity” figure running for President. Also, The Terminator was centered on a cyborg, machine-like human, who was nearly invincible. Today we see more advanced creations of robots used heavily in Japan and sparingly in the U. S. Aside from that, evidence shows that technology is becoming more and more of a source of reliability. This generation is so engorged in technology; some might even call it addiction. This generation uses computers, calculators, iPhones, navigators, etc. to look up infinite amounts of information, to calculate answers, to get to and from locations, and so much more. For these reasons, technology is very helpful and time efficient. Technology even stretches far enough to allow people to search, find, and possibly spy or stalk other people. Now technological abuse is evident, and for this reason technology can be seen as harmful to people rather than