Technology and Science: Influence in our Daily Lives

Technology: technology is the innovation tools that one creates to make a certain activity easier or fun.
Science: is a systematic study of the universe which is about organizing knowledge in a form of testable predictions and explanations.
Reflexivity: this refers to the causes and effects of something and how these causes and effects affect each other.
Technicism: is basically technology taken to the extreme, some argue that technicism is the belief that humanity may have the ability to control existence through technology.

Technology has become a major part of humanity today, almost everyone has atleast one technological tool they rely on in a daily basis. Me, for example, I use too many products that went through a process of scientific studies before I ever thought of using or owning 1. When I wake up in the morning I check my cellphone for the latest news, then take a shower (using toiletry products such as soaps, lotion, and toothpaste), this is just in the first hour of my waking, meaning that I would rely on technology for the rest of my day without even realizing it. As a Graphic Design student interested in animation, one would say most of my life is based on technology that without electricity, I would have had no hope of  being employed as an animator.

Zeitgeist and Utopia: Possible or Fairytale?

ZEITGEIST AND UTOPIA

In attempt to define the terms “zeitgeist” and “utopia” I believe that the term zeitgeist has to do with time, and the beliefs of people living in a particular time frame, for example there was a time in history where everyone believed in the supernatural, this was the Middle ages (from 5^th to the 15^th centuries). Not much innovations took place during those periods as compared to today.

Utopia I see as a perfect place of one’s own mindset, a place that one dreams of whether living or as a form of an afterlife.

Internet sources:

·         http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-the-problem-with-zeitgeist

Anonymous, The Anarchist Library

·         http://blog.thezeitgeistmovement.com/category/tags/utopia

The Zeitgeist Movement Official Blog

·         http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113738

David Icke, exposing the dreamworld we believe to be real

·         http://thezeitgeistmovements.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/russiatoday-calls-zeitgeist-utopia/

The Zeitgeist Movement Examined

·         http://rt.com/usa/zeitgeist-moving-money-utopia/

Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist: Moving Beyond Money

·         http://cyclopspress.com/usuite-zeitgeist.html

·         http://cameronsprocess.blogspot.com/2011/01/zeitgeist-is-nightmare-disguised-as.html

Cameron Cope, Equality Research

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zeitgeist_Movement

·         http://gbulletin.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-zeitgeist-movement-utopia-or-possible-solution-we-decide/

GBulleting, The Zeitgeist Movement: Utopia or Possible Solution? We Decide!

·         http://didiuninterupted.blogspot.com/2012/10/zeitgeist-and-utopia.html

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After doing my research on zeitgeist and utopia I found out that I had an idea of what the two terms meant, but there is more to it as sources state that zeitgeist is not a political movement and in a broader view some see the “zeitgeist movement” which is believed to result in utopia, as a dream world that no one could live in as the world has its surprises. The movement is based on moving beyond money, the thing is everyone wants to be rich and money is believed to be a need, this movement would not be successful as it would take a long time to practice and as human we do not have much time in the world as the youth is to always repeat most mistakes we’ve done.

In knowing which information is relevant one has to look at different sources and read critically to see which sites have done their research and which is just based on comments and one has to examine relevant keywords in the site. The key words I found was “dreamworld” , the site I’m most interested in is Equality Research and it is basically because it states that removing money simply means we replacing it with resources, which means basically the same thing.

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