Based on my interviewee’s responses a rough description of his ideas of the future are apocalyptic in nature with mankind destroying ourselves and as he described it like a scene from “ready player one” a recent release sci- fi action movie. When I asked him how technology changed over his life? He answered “ever since I was 6 I remember running home from school every day just so I could watch my favourite TV show and play games on the computer back when they were big chunky boxes and the only thing I could play was CD disk games. I don’t think technology has been a major influence over my life unlike the kids today. Although it has changed, it doesn’t really feel much of a difference. Maybe it’s because I grew up with it…” from his response I grasped the idea that technology even back in the 2000s when it was starting to grow was so seamlessly integrated into our lives we did not even realise the massive influence it had over us. This explained why this generation of kids were so skilled with this kind of technology, it’s because they were growing up with it besides it with access in their homes and communities.
Don Ihde author of ‘Philosophy of Technology’ explains that tools have always been a part of society and was an integral part of raising civilisation such as boomerangs, technologies have always been “culturally embedded” (Ihde 1993 pg. 50).
The interviewee further discussed technologies he imagined in the future mainly to do with gaming and transportation. “I think the future of 2040 will be crazy technological. Flying cars everywhere, vacuum tubes that transport people to places instead of walking and of course driver less cars as they are even emerging today. People are getting very creative with stuff for the future. I just saw a movie called ready player one which was about VR gaming in the real world. That was so cool and definitely a game changer. But also with the robots thing, they’re definitely going to take over and destroy us all because they’ll realise how stupid and pointless we are. We’re the maker of our own deaths I think.” Close examination suggests the interviewee’s future is very technologically driven in terms of new inventions through gaming and transport. His view is very pessimistic but fairly argumentative towards the robots and AI discussion. Gathering a techno utopic environment or visualisation of this future world which is the interviewee’s preferred future.
REFERENCES
Book
Ihde. D, 1993, Philosophy of technology chapter 2 technology, New York, Paragon, viewed on the 1 October 2018
<https://drr-lib-uts-edu-au.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/24549/85500_ihdetechnology.pdf>
Lectures
Lecture slides week 3 – Intro into futuring – Chris Riedy
Lecture slides week 8 – interdisciplinary design
Images
ImDb, 2018, Ready player one, film poster image, ImDb
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