Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts
When you think about technology critics none seems more relevant today than Aldous Huxley.The traditional Hollywood criticism on technology goes along the lines of Frankenstein, Metropolis, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Terminator and Matrix: technology will control us. I find it dumb, frankly.Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists. It is not totally wrong (e.g.: China, Turkey) but not the exact true sometimes.But the Huxley criticism is, for me, the most interesting: technology will entertain us to stupidity, apathy and alienation. This seems to be very much the case in here.