The mother, Vashti, did all her tasks with the help of the machine. ... The reader can observe that Vashti practically worships the machine. ... She refers to the machine in a holy manner. ... Today, many scientists agree that pollution levels in the air are at an all-time high and we may not be able to continue inhaling it. ... Forster, through exaggeration has uncovered several issues that exist today, back in his time. ...

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Ellul's ideas of technology where that technology was a category independent to human action that was autonomous, "self-determinative" and undirected in its growth and reducing human life to finding meaning in machines (Ellul,13). Thus Postman, elaborating on Ellul, saw technology (primarily, but not exclusively, in the shape of computer) striving for world domination and that technology has been for a long time the god of humans. ... Postman, in short, crosses field to make his point drawing on literature, folklore, myths, theology, anthropology, sociology, computer science (e.g. ... Wh...

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It was in this time, when the world made the first steps towards huge scientific and technological advances. ... Creativity is instead replaced by mundane tasks, because machines do most of the work. ... Without literature, people will live in a stable society, but have to pay the price of never being creative or thinking. ... Huxley shows that sometimes when the citizens were alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to come up. ... People are conditioned against love, nature, literature and other naturally desired forms of expression. ...

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Technology has expanded exponentially from the beginning of time until the 90's. ... Email can have more of a real time relay in the future. There is also the possibility of your email not reaching its destination, which we all have experienced at one time. ... World Library Incorporated produced a fully searchable CD-ROM containing 450 (later expanded to 953) classical works of literature and historic documents. ... These chips are designed around a reduced instruction set machine language, intended to produce more compact, faster executing code. ...

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Literatures 1. The new economy requires innovation to gaining competitive advantage When we talk about the new economy, we're talking about a world in which people work with their brains instead of their hands; a world in which communications technology creates global competition - not just for running shoes and laptop computers, but also for bank loans and other services that can't be packed into a crate and shipped; a world in which innovation is more important than mass production; a world in which investment buys new concepts or the means to create them, rather than new m...

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They are a move towards the superior being described to us in literature and the countless films made about dystopian futures. ... He developed this idea during his time spent in a Siberian prison, which seems fitting as it highlights a main cause for our evolution; eliminating suffering from our lives, whether that be disease, poverty or social injustice. ...

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