High technology has its advantages and disadvantages, but whether it is better than harm or more harm than good will depends on how people use it. Although I think technology has made a not so positive impact on humans. All the convenience of technology is to serve the real life, however, nowadays it has become to encroach on the real life itself.

A film is called ‘The Surrogates’ discourses in the future world, most people will live at home without moving at home while living through their brain-controlled robot avatars. This high-tech product is named “machine agent” was invented by Dr. Kanter. The appearance of these “machine agents” can be customized according to customer requirements, so that they can present themselves to the world, younger and more attractive than their actual age. Humans voluntarily let the machine become the master of their own lives and the reason for selling themselves is simply the distrust of the self. Distrust of the appearance of the self, distrust of the ability of the self, the disharmony of the world in which an individual does not trust the self. Back to reality, from ancient times to the present, art has often become a way for human beings to seek self-soul liberation, but in the modern era of science and technology, the network has gradually become a means of human self-rescue. Many people fail to get satisfaction in real life, and then sneak into the virtual world to seek. In the virtual world built by the network, human beings expect to present in the most perfect way. Along with the invention of SNS services and other websites, we have been dependent upon readily smartphones and the internet. (Sarwar & Soomro 2013)

The film ‘Death Call’ also made me think whether smartphones are really a good friend of us, the film satires human dependence on mobile phones. It is said that in the future world, the mobile phone can suddenly send a pulse signal to kill people so that people become walking dead. In 2004, when smartphones were not yet popular, Stephen King foresees the dangers of mobile phones to humans and created a horror story of human beings becoming slaves to mobile phones. In the real world today, when smartphones have become extremely popular, humans have reached the point where they can’t live without mobile phones. (Nath & Mukherjee 2015) I think people including myself are too dependent on the mobile phone. To a certain extent, it limits our real social activities and if eroding our mind gradually. It just as similar to the fact that people used to eat opium.

Technology brings convenience, but convenience does not mean freedom; people should control technology rather than being controlled by technology; we should be holding our friends’ hands, not our phones.

 

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