1. Steve Jobs speech: https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc
The beneficiaries of the revolution
The technology industry regard itself as counterculture.
”stay hungry, stay foolish.”
2. Computer games : Violent Porn Killing Shootout
dystopian mirror ； escape from reality
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3. Utopian image: street, factory
Evidence
4.concrete utopia — London modernist public housing
The barbican center neave brown
Brainstorming :
Regarding escapist fantasy, like Wakanda in Black Panther, I think the Marvel universe created by Marvel is also a kind of utopia. In the face of the existence of higher-level species in the universe, Marvel imagined the existence of superheroes, whose will and sense of belief and super abilities support them to serve the people and the world. Same with Harry Potter.
Computer games reflect all the ills of violent, rotten culture, like the plot of the movie Free Guy, which is an attack on existing games. There is no doubt that this movie has "references" such as "Ready Player One", "The Truman World", "Westworld", "Black Mirror", etc., but"The Truman World", "Extreme Space", "The Matrix"... without exception, all use the "false" of the virtual (fictional, illusory) world to contrast the "true" of the real world. "Free Guy" does the opposite, telling us that the virtual world is also another kind of reality. Those who live in it can also live well. This also corresponds to the "post-AlphaGo" era, when people have a deeper awe for technology.
But I don't think the ending is satisfactory. In the ending, Guy and all the "npc" live on a carefree island. The reason why Guy fell in love with Millie at first sight seemed to be an awakening of love, but it was actually because the keyboard encoded his love for Millie on Guy. As Guy said: "I'm just a digital love letter to you, and the person who wrote it is in your world." This sounds romantic at first, but when you think about it, it's extremely cruel. Because while writing the sweet ending, it also obliterated Guy's road to adulthood. This tool man originally thought he had escaped the fate of a tool man, but in the end he found out that he was still just a tool man; his so-called self-consciousness was just another series of prescribed actions given by the programmer; he went through fire and water in the virtual world , almost lost his "life", in exchange for only a kiss from a couple in the real world.
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