Day 9

Todays Lecture was about the idea of Cyber Utopia and Dystopia. Is the internet going to be this amazing, perfect place where people and technology are in harmony. Or is it going to fall to a kind of anarchic, place of disorder and fallen dreams.

There is a quote by Heim that says: " When we speak of a global village, we should keep in mind that every village makes villains, and when civilisation reaches a certain degree of density, the barbaric tribes return, from within. tribes shun their independent thinkers and punish individuality. A global international village, fed by accelerated competition and driven by information, may be lost to an unprecedented barbarism."

This idea that that the hazards of the life will be screened out of the internet. Can technology and the internet provide us with something that is happier and nicer than the real world. Some call it a "disneyised" approach to the internet. But as was mentioned about in the first movie The Matrix, the first matrix that the machines created was too perfect and the humans couldn't react to it. This is truly the case, humans need a sense of chaos and that is why there will never be a Uptopia of the internet. In Utopian societies the peace is disrupted by people who seek to exercise to their own free will.

But when someone acting on their free will encroaches on someone else's ability to act in their free will this will no longer be a Utopia. People will always try and go against the grain. Not to the degree that every law must be broken and no one will be safe, it'll never be a Dystopia. It will sit someone in between these two extremes.