Thursday, 7 February 2008

Utoptia/Dystopia in our society today

Facebook fraudster 'stole prince's ID'

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/06/morocco.identiity.ap/index.html

I felt that this article exemplifies how a utopian side of technology, Facebook(as described in class) can actually fall into the category of a dystopian side as well. Facebook connects people through messaging, interests, and even photgraphs; this site is somewhat private with individual email addresses and passwords to login, and the ability to send private messages to others without evidence of that accessable to others viewing ones page. This seems like a utopian side of technology, but what if someone tapped into anothers private page? This is exactly what happened with Prince Moulay Rachid, when someone hacked into his private page. This exemplifies how a utopian side of technology can also prove to be a dystopian side. In a dystopia there is a sense of survellience, similar to what the hacker was aiming to achieve.

1 comment:

Jessamine said...

When our rosary wish that surveillance will not be carried out fails, what would be our next wish?