Asyouwish 4/1 High tech paranoia

After writing my other post about the Media and its Media giant’s being a potential power threat the concept of “high tech paranoia” came to mind. The media itself is dangerous because it could brainwash us but the technology we have created could easily make us its victim as well, at least according to science fiction movies, books and television shows. There are tons of media based texts that discuss how the electronics we as a species have created are going to revolt against us to take over our planet and kill us. Movies like irobot depict robots becoming smarter than humans and trying to take over. The Disney movie, (yes, even the big 5 are in on this trend) “Smart House” follows this concept of “high tech paranoia”. The movie is about a house that has been created to fulfill the wishes of its inhabitants through a computer in the mainframe of the house. This home is perfect at first but then the computer tries to be more than just a computer and soon it is trying to control the lives of the house owners and their children. After escaping the death their house tries to provide for them they dismantle the computer. Others present “high tech paranoia” as a state where we as humans become dependent on machines and electronics. Some movies also depict this type of dependent state. For example, Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the sith depicts Anakin Skywalker dying and his life only being spared by being turned into Darth Vader a man whose oxygen and body functions depend on the robot suit that has become part of him. In reality this paranoia also affects us, take Y2K for example which occurred in 1999 because everyone thought that when it became the new year (2000) all the computers and anything controlled by computers would crash because they weren’t programmed for the new millennia. It seems that “high tech paranoia” does not only occur in books, movies and television anymore but also reality because so much of our world depends on the use and function of computers and technology.