We are surrounded by many different media and technologies. The advancements in technology are beyond what could ever have been imagined at the turn of the twentieth century. We have advanced so much, in fact, that we are now at a stage where we wonder if our technology may surpass us in the near future.
There was a movie that came out in 2008 called Eagle Eye. It is about a piece of technology, created by the government, that develops a mind of her own. She is able to control almost everything through a series of networks of technology that are all interconnected. Could this happen? Could our technology surpass us to the point that we are useless to our world? Technology has already been undertaking the project of a human computer, known as Digital Adam. The idea came in the 1990s to take a male cadaver and turn him into a digital textbook for medical advancement, breaking down his anatomy into billions of bytes of data.
It almost seems as if something has gone too far, but do we turn ourselves into pieces of technology every day? We create avatars and computerized versions of ourselves and communicate through several mediums of technology on a daily basis. We created the framework for a Digital Adam. Will this be our next evolution? Have we gone from the Gibbon, Gorilla, Man, to Digital Adam?
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