Live tweeting is a new phenomenon for me, and having to watch movies while also interacting with people on Twitter was something that has become a custom to me.
During each screening, my contribution would be the same, very active on Twitter, sometimes, this would be to counteract the movie as I was not enjoying it.
As seen from the video, the views and retweet numbers relatively high considering the # is going off during the screening process.
The main point that was being established is this notion of ‘the future is now’ seen in lecture recordings. Watching these films from 30 years ago talking about now, could help me engage with what our world looks like now and whether these predictions were right. This can be seen in my blog posts, and some in which I retweeted:
The film that struck the most to me, was the Blade Runner. Especially when it comes to their replicants and their interpretations on the world. The replicants themselves corroborate the idea of cybernetics through the control and communication of the replicants and Sci-Fi. G. Bruno indicates that if a machine can feel emotions and talk like them, that is the main sign of a human in Sci-Fi. A key emotion within the world is how us humans identify and belong within an environment, which was something that I thought is crucial for the replicants within the movie. That feeling is something even seen by humans, and so it rang the question, is AI becoming more and more human and are humans becoming less human? This idea was discussed immensely within the live tweeting session, especially the correlation of cybernetics.
The main thing that is being seen within every movie is the concept of our actions having positive and negative consequences. This in turn, affects the future network of technology how it will be interpreted in the future. This book written by C, Heath and P, Luff perfectly explains how technology has shaped today’s world, putting it as, the reorganisation of society. This is nothing but true and had has been within all the movies watched, as society is reorganised and structured around technology and artificial intelligence. The tweeting process made me think, does technology really have a positive effect on the world? Is it making us more environmentally unaware? Even AI itself in ChatGPT is questioning this.
A key contribution was also including quotes that I picked out from movies, and made me think what is actually trying to be said here? Especially in movies I did not enjoy like the Ghost in the Shell.
This above tweet made me think to myself as to what if technology has already made humans puppets? This has been a well thought idea, as Y,N, Harari indicates that our lives involves around fictional innovations.
There was lots of conversation on Twitter, in real time, which indicates that humans are indeed creative and talkative creatures with their own interpretations and depictions of different things. This shows the subject idea of think tanks, and how we rely on this communication through networking, as we network with fellow students through Twitter.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G, Bruno, 1987, Ramble City: Postmodernism and “Blade Runner”, MIT Press, https://www.jstor.org/stable/778330?seq=1
Y,N, Harari, 2011, Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, London.
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