Day Nine

Utopia and dystopia was tow terms which was discuses in today’s lecture.  By definition, the utopia is a place which everything is perfect, and according to our subject, the place which human and technology are in harmony.  There are lots of theories about utopia and utopia in cyberspace, like when we are using the internet and our mind our inside the thing we doing and our body is relaxed on chair.  But is it a real utopia?

The first part of the today’s lecture was about the old generation and new generation of communication technology.  The interesting thing is the culture of using that technology, for example telephone is the most popular technology that everyone uses because it is easy to use and economy.  Most of the people preferring to using the telephone rather than massaging or chatting or other form of communication technologies, so the new generation of technology try to simulate the telephone for example on internet, because people are use to it.

In addition the new technologies are taking the life toward the utopia which is created by them.  But the main thing is there are many disadvantage regarding to this kind of utopia.  First thing what happen when the technology is not available, for example, there is no electricity to use the computer?  And tother and most important thing is who is controlling this utopia?  Hackers? Or politicians who are afraid of their shadow and try to check everything?

That is to say maybe the utopia for some people is a kind of dystopia for others.  Basically, utopia is kind of virtual life, which was discussed in previous lectures and it try to make the perfect thing and perfect situations by using the new technologies.  However at the end it is not real.  Maybe it would be better if people put their energy and knowledge to make the real life better rather than virtual life!