The Ghost in the Shell
| It’s definitely going to happen one day and we are not ready for it. Because We Will be dead till we see something like “MAJOR” |
| We're already in the cyber future, just the lame and cringe version of it. |
| I think we're already there, in many ways. Our sense of reality is becoming more and more warped by social media and political rhetoric, to such a degree that different groups of people are living in entirely different realities. Don't need to "ghost hack" when you can just tell people what to think and what to see. We're drowning ourselves in social media and online culture, but we still feel unfulfilled, confused, lonely and disconnected, arguably more so than in '95. Technology is ever advancing, but it's hard to say it's overall improving the lives of regular people. Cost-of-living crisis. Affordable housing crisis. The mental health crisis. The widening class divide. Personal data and privacy issues. It is definitely empowering the ultra-rich and the mega-corporations more and more, however. AI is here, and many seem to believe that an AI entity like the Puppet Master is only a matter of time. The only thing that's seriously off the mark is the progress of robotics and mechanical body parts. We're still getting there, just much more slowly than expected. (Note that I've only seen the movie and Innocence) |
| I've only seen movies 1 and 2, but I don't think the type of society portrayed in GITS is really sustainable unless staggering progress is made in something like fusion energy, for example. Frankly, I expect the earth will be practically uninhabitable by the time we would get there. At any rate, it will be a while before what the film envisions is really possible, at least regarding cybernetic technology, especially cyberbrain type augmentation. We are certainly not prepared for something like it yet. Half the government in the US at least is made up of out of touch boomers who barely understand phones, even if GITS level technology was available right now, it wouldn't be able to be properly integrated into society for a while. Although, as another guy said, we've practically already reached the Cartesian sense of reality the film portrays, different groups of people are near-literally living in entirely different realities. The politicization of social media has gotten us there quite easily. Thanks Elon. Another way to look at it though is that the near opposite of what GITS perhaps anticipated has come to occur. Instead of losing your identity in the vast sea of information, people have just either selectively engaged in information that supports their beliefs, or had it forced down their throat, basically. Again, thanks Elon. I think coexistence between man and machine is certainly possible though. I don't anticipate a robot uprising or anything like that. To answer your last question, yes. If only it were that easy though. |
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| humanity will either die violently or gradually once technological singularity is reach and our ai and robot overlords takeover the world |
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