Today we watched a short video in class that pertained to humans being able to live forever. To obtain this luxury, you would have to get your brain cells scanned into a computer system then live through something similar to a television monitor.To live forever sounds like something you just can't pass up but when actually given the opportunity,would it be as enjoyable as one would think? Humans aren't immortal for a reason and when scientist begin to "play God" terrible consequences seem to follow suit. Things like over population and sacredness of natural and unnatural resources will occur, which then becomes extremely unfair to those living a natural life. Then what happens if there is a glitch in the system controlling the lives of millions of people (which occurs in the video), do they all just die? And these are just two of many factors that can occur. So in my opinion, I say living forever won't be be a luxury but instead a curse and that one should live there best "natural"life so they would be content enough to not want to live a million more.
Black Mirror is a Netflix original series that shows the worse possible outcomes of the use our obsessive use of technology. We watched one particular episode called "Nosedive" that was about a world that based ones value off of their ranking. Ranked 1-5, people were forced to create a false persona of themselves in order to receive 5 stars during any human interaction. The main character of this episode became so obsessed with having a high ranking that it caused her ultimate downfall but also opened her eyes to a whole new life of honestly and happiness. This episode, though over exaggerated, showed how much people base their worth on social media popularity and what others think of them and those who didn't care and had "low rankings" were the happiest.
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