The Future of Technology as Argued By Dinello

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Daniel Dinello in his book has given a diverse view on different field of technology that was to affect the current and future development of culture. Dinello criticizes the experts in the fields of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, and those who predicted the future state of human evolution where the human will interface completely with technology that is to become a new superior species. He states that human beings will no longer be fully biological entities but will be transcended by the limitation of flesh, therefore, enter in a technological utopia freed from disease and death. His argument has elicited a lot of argument from all quarters with some argue that his fiction are true while others saying that such thoughts were mere dreams and cannot take place in the pop culture (Dinello, 2005).

In his writing about the post human evolution, he describes technology in two spheres; the techno-heaven and the techno-hell. This has prompted the twenty first century scientists to work on the emerging fields of technology so that to make the current and future lives brighter. A substantial example of the technological change is the process where human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine. It further states that human being will completely shed the shackles of pain, disease, and death as they will be downloaded to death free-robots where they can leave forever (Johnson, 2011). However, this analogy has not been achieved even in the pop generation though there is tremendous improvement in the field of robotics as many robots have been sent to the space.

Critics argue that the authors of science fiction about post human evolution would not mark the beginning of the end of human freedom, dignity, and values but will lead to a darker future dominated by mad scientists, killer clones, ramping robots, and uncontrolled viruses. However, Dinello examines the dramatic conflicts between techno-dystopia predicted by the science fiction and techno-utopia promised by real world scientists. This argument has been clearly shown in the pop culture where there is a lot of competition by the scientist to develop more robots and the creation of viruses and viruses (Dinello, 2005). In the pop culture scientist more often work in the laboratory to create viruses and their anti-viruses. There are a number of uncontrolled viruses in the current world for example, it is say that to date cure for HIV virus has not been found

In his book “the science of fiction”, he draws useful materials that include, films, books, television, and computer games and he argues that science fiction works as a substantial corrective to technological domination, religiously rationalized , profit oriented, and countering techno-hype motives of science (Johnson, 2011). To control and curtain the spread of diseases, Dinello encourages human beings to construct ways and methods to regulate new technology. His argument has a fundamental basic since uncontrolled technology can lead to world disaster as the one experience in Hiroshima bombing of Japan where many lost their lives. The modern technology also has contributed to the modern cyber-crimes hence should be controlled in the pop culture.

He bravely align him selves with the technophobes and has a number of good reasons for his role in the development of technology in the pop and future generation. Dinello authoritatively presents an optimistic view of technological development that was to help develop human beings in future. In addition, it more likely those robots like the ones in the terminator films could move than those found in the forbidden planet and lost in space (Hollinger & Gordon, 2002). The discovery of robots has help human being to discover new technology and also to send object to the space hence improving the pop culture of the current generation.

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Dinello, D. (2005). Technophobia!: Science fiction visions of posthuman technology. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press.

Hollinger, V., & Gordon, J. (2002). Edging into the future: Science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Johnson, B. D. (2011). Science fiction prototyping: Designing the future with science fiction. S.l.: Morgan & Claypool.