My BCM325 DA Pitch is up and ready to watch here. My concept is the future of surveillance in the next 50 years and how this will affect society at large. I will tie today’s and the potential future of technology to those seen in science fiction films (such as AI technology in 2001: A Space Odyssey) to highlight what Istvan Csicery Ronay calls the ‘prehistory of the future’. Science fiction films are important as they give us a way to visualise the future, meaning they have immense control over how we think about the future.
Other areas for research include a phenomena known as ‘Smart Cities‘ which are found predominately in China. Here, data is gathered from almost every aspect of life via constant surveillance in a bid to enhance travel, more efficiently use resources and improve infrastructure management. The question here will be, ‘is this the…
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