trands of viruses and diseases, the existential enigmas of human cloning. And by taking a step further into the abyss we can glimpse the bio-chemical weapons created for mass destruction.
             Does the threat posed by technology overweigh its functionality? Does the ability to prolong or immortalize human life justify overpopulation, the deterioration beyond reproach and/or repair of natural resources, and the inevitable corruption of the technology by the ethically challenged and/or the wealthy? Maybe it is, and maybe its not. One way or the other it seems to me that technology is just as unstoppable as artistic expression. Ingenuity and creativity are linked hand in hand. It's innate to procreate.
             The unstoppable artistic expression that I paralleled to technology has its contribution to technology and naturally, offers a window into the techno phobias and philias of people; viewers and artists alike. I will explore the technophobic phenomena through cinema. Films from around the world have consistently demonstrated the feelings of technophobia felt by the public from the time of their invention. Many themes in movies (especially science-fiction films) center on pervasive real-world issues such as the need for power and money, war, and more recently, space exploration, the hostile takeover by machines, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
             Some propose that technophilia serves as a movie theme more than technophobia. In certain films, this is true. In fact most of the audiences attracted to such technothrillers, be they phobic or philic films, are technophiles. Using this reasoning we can deduce that most movie goers in general are technophiles, because the multi-billion dollar blockbusters are usually in the sci-fi/fantacy genre category and more then not, they are technothrillers as well. In a lot of movies however, the characters embody contemporary society's concerns that technology is quickly spinning out of control.
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