Short story about technology taking over
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
A journalist in the future explores the advantages and disadvantages of living with the wetware known as Remem. Remem monitors your conversation for references to past events, and then displays video of that event in the lower left corner of your field of vision. If you say “remember dancing the conga at that wedding?”, Remem will bring up the video. If the person you’re talking to says “the last time we were at the beach,” Remem will bring up the video.The journalist explores his own life through Remem, while looking at how language impacted a tribe in Tivland.
Cell phone addiction - Short Movie
As part of our celebration of Short Story Month this year, we are studying the ways in which fiction grapples with technology—be it twitter, his willingness to soldier through his own bemusement is a lesson in true goodwill.
Ted Chiang
Connected – A Science Fiction Story [SHORT STORY]
Technology has the power to make our lives easier, but it's also omnipresent. We live our lives completely immersed in technology—sharing every aspect of our existence with the different apps that reside in the tiny computers we are constantly clutching at our sides. It's no surprise that science fiction—a genre with a particular interest in technology—has produced some fascinating and frightening books about the dangers of all-powerful tech. This list highlights a handful of the best books that warn of technology taking over. After reading a few, you just might find yourself adjusting those Facebook privacy settings. The hero of The Path is a relatable guy with a white-collar computer job.
Who we are
Egomaniacs run the government, war threatens on every front, police target select populations, the environment is under threat, you are being watched, and technology runs amok. Sound like current news? Time for some dystopian short stories to show the way. Fiction has already prepared many of us for a dystopia, even if we never actually imagined it would happen. In these stories heroes and heroines fight oppression and imagine new worlds, but they also succumb to tyranny and die.
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