Week 8 - Lecture Response

This whole cyberpunk idea is freaking me out a little. While to begin with this concept seems completely make-believe, science fiction and the type of thing a C grade movie thrives off. Yet when i start to actually think about technology and its presence today, and hear recently that we have almost doubled the amount of internet users in Australia since last December, i realise these crazy concepts of technology taking over and the human race living in some sort of poverty stricken or desert of wires, is not all that impossible. The possible combination of a low life and high tech world completely scares me and i believe most people, once they understood just how rapidly tech-growth is occurring, they would freak too.

However for the time being i still control my mac, and my iphone and television still require the use of my finger pushing a button. The Cyberpunk is something to think about and be concerned with but until such time it becomes reality, i'll just enjoy the low-budget movies and novels. :)