Interface Reading

I had I hard time understanding what the author was trying to say. I don’t know if he is trying to compare Blade Runner to the fact that technology is a main part of human life now and that one-day we will be doomed for it!

1. Blade Runner showed the world in the future as a computer run dystopia. The human race is slowly weeding out the extremely human like androids as to purify it of all non-organic entities. In our day and age we seem to be working our way up to this, or at least that’s was the move wants us to see. Today, our world is getting to the point where every thing is computer run; we already have hover cars, and art has left the canvas and is now on the computer screen. My question is even though Blade runner shows a world in decay: our reality is that technology is here to help us or are we blind to the fact that we are making machines more intelligent then humans?
2. “In “meatspace” we have to work to remember, in cyberspace we have to work to forget.” Pg 63 this statement from the text brings up an interesting point: are we as a flawed species just leaning on technology in order to help us remember, or does human nature want the satisfaction of being able to delete and then able to retrieve again. Computers have the ability to delete an item (pictures, files, programs) but unless you erase it from the hard drive its not really gone. In Blade Runner man has created androids to help, but they end up only harming humans, so they send out a “blade runner” to destroy them. But new android models are still being created; the problem is never really resolved. Are humans just to ignorant to see that in order to really get rid of something you have to stop it at its source?