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Critically discuss utopian and dystopian views of new technologies and their consequences.
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0201047 April 2004 Techno-Science and Cyber-Culture Critically discuss utopian and dystopian views of new technologies and their consequences. Upon reflection to the statement, I decided to base the starting point of my research on stereotypical visions of the future to see if they had any correlation to a utopian or dystopian society. My research showed that these visions seemed to have a strong existence in a world of modernity; "we have grown up in a world based on the Modernist vision of relentless industrial progress" (Vision of the Future, 'Foreword; a new modernity', 1996), a world that looks minimal, sterile and threatening, reducing any kind of nostalgia that we may have had of the past and present. These stereotypical visions are therefore new and unknown to us. I quote from Fredric Jameson, "Science Fiction thus enacts and enables a structurally unique "method" for apprehending the present as history, and this is...
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