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            The 90's has been a decade full of controversial and world changing events. The first one I could think of would have to be the Persian Gulf War with Iraq. I think that war brought together the United States, stopped our fighting with each other, and helped us focus on one common enemy, Saddam Hussein. The next thing we did was send troops to Haiti and to Somalia to help protect the people and the failing governments. Once again the United States was brought together in a time of war. However, I believe that the one true Zeitgeist of the 90's isn't the wars that brought us together but the information and technology age that will break us apart. The way that new products are being developed each day in the next 10 to 20 years almost everything will be automated and many being will be out of a job doing nothing. .
             The Internet is now one of the biggest things in the world today with the help of companies like American on Line, CompuServe, Prodigy, Phillips Web Tv and all the other companies that are trying to get rich off of it. They say people can stay in the safety of their home while they can shop, talk to people online and even send things like birthday cards thanks to companies that advertise on the web like Hallmark and Disney's family page. .
             The Internet also offers a way to get information from a wide variety of sources like Compton's Encyclopedia and other useful tools. The Internet offers all of this stuff for us to browse through without leaving our home that pretty soon no one will leave their home especially with newer technology coming out everyday. .
             Computers are the wave of the future and with modems and the Internet and now teleconferencing many more people will be staying at home while they work. New inventions like processing chips that can run billions of commands in a matter of seconds that soon will be able to take control of robots and other machinery that will make human work obsolete.


Essays Related to science fiction and technology

1. Science Fiction

However science fiction follows specific laws of physics, math and technology. ... Science fiction is how the world one day may look and most of the time it is the worse case scenario, where technology plays an important role in society. ... The words "science fiction" primarily appeared in the beginning of the 30s. ... He continued to write a total of 12 science fiction woks. ... When the atomic bombs were used in a way that science fiction had predicted, science fiction got more promotion and found many new readers. ...

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2. Special Effects in science fiction films

However, there is a contradiction with the intension of the science fiction theme. While science fiction films often use their plot to say the danger of a new technology, the spectacular look of their special effects undoubtedly appreciate their work for the films. ... (Landon) Furthermore, Landon suggests that "science fiction film has crossed or is in the midst of crossing a horizon of invisibility separating its narrative past from its at least temporarily narrativeless present and future." (1992: 153) Production technology is becoming more attractive than "the stories ostensibly justifyi...

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3. Science Fiction and Hollywood

During World War II there was little desire to see any more of what technology could do, and true science fiction was replaced with the likes of Flash Gordon, a campy film series derived from the comic book of the same name. ... Unfortunately though, it was to be the first and only good science fiction film of the decade. ... This purely science-based adventure film likely helped both science and science fiction by entertaining and inspiring thought at once. ... In 1977, an epic science fantasy series was started with its first installment, and had since been constantly mistaken for scien...

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4. Science Fiction of The Maze Runner

Science fiction is often linked with "the principles of science-these stories involve partially true partially fictitious laws or theories of science" ("Science"). ... There exists the Griever Hole – a piece of cutting-edge technology that acts as a portal and control station. ... This use of advanced technology also indicates that scientific concepts have a strong presence in the text. These reasons begin to demonstrate that science fiction reigns as The Maze Runner's dominant genre. ... Essayist and novelist, Susan Sontag, believed "Science fiction"...

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5. Compare Charlies Angels to the Matrix

The film is based on a trio of beautiful women (Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore) who are hired to retrieve a man and his technology. ... In comparison, The Matrix is a science fiction film, with an intricate plot, which captivates the audience's attention with its twists and turns and incredible show of carefully choreographed special effects. ... This confirms that The Matrix falls under the science fiction genre as the characters seem to possess certain skills and abilities, an average person would not have. ... The film itself, falls under the science fiction genre, and prese...

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6. Are WE Prediciting a Bleak New World

A scene from the highly popular science fiction film, The Matrix? ... One could go as far as saying that some of these science fiction writers got it right. ... It seems that the current science fictions predict, well, the end of humanity, as we know it. ... Almost all of the popular science fiction texts are concerned with it. ... This is also similar in the science fiction texts. ...

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7. science non-fiction

Science Non-fiction Utopia: At what price does it come? ... Science and Technology are at the center of the world. ... Technology is a bitter sweet luxury. ... All of the reasoning for having our technology has some drawbacks. ... Science is a dangerous subject. ...

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8. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Science, in turn, accordingly became the new god and technology, a branch and product of science, become deified as its mirror image. ... Postman relies a lot on history, particularly history of science and technology, and the rise of progress or Rationalism as evidenced from the Enlightenment on. ... This is supported by literary writings such as from Twain, poetry of Walt Whitman, prose of Thoreau, fiction of Aldous Huxley, and speeches of Lincoln. Postman, in short, crosses field to make his point drawing ...

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9. How has the representation of women changed in science ficti

The Science fiction genre has interested film-makers since the earliest days of the cinema, though not often to the benefit of the film or of science fiction. Most such films have been adaptations of science-fiction literature and comic strips. ... Now Science Fiction has five major themes which unites them under the one genre. ... The recent growth of the internet, the advances in computer systems and telecommunications technology have been influential on recent science fiction films. ... The film also sets the standard for the iconography of the 1980s and 1990s science fiction films with its...

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