We watched a movie in class today rife with sensationalism that speculated on the near future where technology replaces our other sources of information, eventually corrupting information to tailor it to the individual's preferences. I found the movie to be silly, advances in digital technologies are supposed to be beneficial to humanity, and in general they are at least useful. I do think we have to police just how much we allow technology to do for us, we need to understand how this corruption of information is already taking place on the internet, our browsing history is sold to companies that market to us specifically on the individual level. Is that ethical? Why is it that I can't get on the internet without my every keystroke is monitored? While we are a far cry from the insidious inter-connectivity described in the movie I sometimes think we've already gone too far down that path to ever turn back. It's up to the educated individual to discern valid information in a sea of misinformation and protect themselves from the insidious developments of current technology.
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