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Cautionary tales in Sci-Fi
Topic Started: May 17 2012, 07:35 AM (155 Views)
24thcenstfan
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Technological cautionary tales seems to be in the forefront of a few threads here recently. I think there are all kinds of cautionary tales that have been well depicted in Science Fiction.

Your thoughts on this?
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starbase63
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You can go all the way back to the original "Metropolis" for cautionary tales in science fiction about the abuse of progress and technology...

Take in others like "On The Beach"..."Colossus: The Forbin Project"..."The Terminator"...even lesser known ones like "A Sound Of Thunder"...

Eventually technology in those tales leads to bad if not disasterous things for humanity.



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I have always found it interesting that we seem to embrace the newest technology with a will, while at the same time evincing a fear of where 'too much' of it might leave us. Is this, I wonder, just a 21st century form of ghost stories around the camp fire or do we really need to be wary of a time when the machines decide that the best way to serve us is to enslave or eliminate us?!
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Ghost stories, or fairy tales, etc. were usually designed with being cautionary in mind. There elements in them meant to warn us, especially the younger ones, of the dangers of the world around them.

Trek's use of the Borg is one tale I have always found particularly frightening. More so than the idea of machines taking over. The idea of blending ourselves with the mechanical seems even more likely and even more benign at first. It seems to me that in such a case we would never even realize that we had given up on our individuality.
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