By Nicola Osborne
Created by Nicola Osborne for the Digital Culture module of the University of Edinburgh MSc in eLearning. Utopia Dystopia v. "We're always living way ahead of our thinking" - Marshall McLuhan is about the unknown hopes fears ...about the unknown... ...the future... ? ... or the present ? When does the future... ...become the present? ...start looking like the past? Fear... ...is eventually lost in function... what looks bizarre quickly becomes normalised Technology evolves fast... ...but our hopes and fears change little... but we fear blind conformity we fear the unknown... .[almost as much as we fantasize about it] we fear the unnatural so we anthropomorphize... and we find comfort in technology we feel we know & understand Read my Digital Culture course blog here: http://digitalculture-ed.net/nicolao/ Or find out more about the MSc here: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/e-learning/ Play Again? Yes/ No and our behaviour slowly changes to meet the technology Utopian and Dystopian futures are NOT about technology... ...about not knowing how we will react or change when our ideas and fantasies become reality. ...our idea of the future is about our current hopes and fears and... we empathize we idolize peaceful cooperation Both are about our
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Henry Keil says: Pretty impressive as a first attempt - certainly thought provoking Reply
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