Eureka

Technology

          

The clip from “Eureka,” starring Colin Ferguson and Salli Richardson-Whitefield, is a good example of the technology that we could see in the future. In the clip Officer Andy is being introduced to his new smart house by Dr. Fargo. The smart house is filled with new technology that we could be using in the future. The house is controlled by you, all you have to do is say what you want the house to do and it will do it. For example if you want the lights to turn on, you would tell say “turn on the light.” The smart house is being operated by Fargo, who he calls “Sarah”. Fargo created the house and later we find out he is using the smart house to spy on Officer Andy throughout the night for any malicious behavior he might be conducting. In this episode Susan Perkins died and the town buried her, but she later shows up at the police station wondering where her husband is, we later find out that she was cloned by a scientist, maybe Dr. Fargo since he also created the smart house?

My personal response to this text is I think we rely too much on technology already so in the future when technology is far more advanced then it is now, I don’t think that we as a population is going to be able to handle it. We like to push things to its limits and I believe that we are going to push technology to its limit, until it can’t be any more advanced which is why I think that technology will destroy us. We are so dependent on technology in our everyday lives, but what happens if the technology is no longer there? Or what if the technology becomes too advanced for us to handle? For example Officer Andy became to dependable on the smart house in the clip, so when the smart house was malfunctioning he didn’t actually know what to do. I believe that technology in the future will actually hurt us more than it will actually help us.

The purpose of this clip is to show what houses could be like in the future. The houses could do everything for you and you no longer have to do things yourself because the house automatically does the job for you, hence which is why it is called a “smart house.” The techniques used in the clip to help achieve the purpose were flashing electronic waves inside houses, automatic sensors in the smart house, “Sarah” who controlled the house, the cloning of Susan Perkins and monster that went into the little kids room during the middle of the night. The overall effect of this work is too show that the future will bring us new technology and we will have to be able to handle it or else it could destroy us.

In this clip being human means self replicating yourself and living with all of the fancy technology. In this clip I get the sense that humans are being compared to robots almost. Humans go about their lives pretty much doing the same thing day in and day out. Then when I seen that “Sarah” was controlling the house this just further backed up my point for me. The robot “Sarah” is in the people’s lives and she is controlling their house and the things that they do inside of their household.  In this clip being human is like being a robot, you are being controlled by a force that is addicting (Sarah) and it is producing what you want.

We all have our depictions of the future and what it will look like, but truthfully none of us know what the future will really look like. In this clip our depictions of the future reveal that the present isn’t so great. We may thing that we have all of this great technology and we may think that we have everything, but after seeing this clip, I would love to live 100 years from now when they have smart houses, flying cars and who knows what else. The people in the future will really have everything that they want. They will look back on us and realize how lucky they are to have the things that they will have in the future.

We use language and images to manipulate people’s minds by showing things that are unrealistic right now, in hopes of one day being able to have these things and use them. In this movie they manipulated our minds with the smart house because right now it is not realistic in our lifestyle. But it is quite possible in the future, with the grand technology that could be made. They memorized us by showing the smart house and all of the luxurious things that it could do and how much it could make our lives easier because it does everything for you.