Wouldn't is be awesome to live in a spaceship up in space where you didn't have to move a muscle? All you would need to worry about is yourself. The inside would be decked out in all the latest technological advances. Eating would be a piece of cake because all the nutrients you need can be consumed through a straw, and you wouldn't even need to worry about walking because everyone gets their own floating chair to live on! And ladies shopping is done through the internet; there's no need to spend countless hours looking through racks and trying the clothes on, it goes straight from the screen to your body without moving a muscle. Everything you will ever need is on this ship! Sounds like heaven right?! I mean look at this dream place:
What's the catch you say? No catch :D you just sit there, relax and enjoy your life ^-^ Just look at these two handsome fellows If they can do you surely can too!
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Well reality check. If you take the deal, and in turn abandon your home planet, this is the future you leave for Earth (left) and yourself (right):
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WALL-E shows us what is to become of our future if we become completely reliant on technology, and it doesn't look too good. First off, there is massive bone loss and as you can see from the video Captain didn't even know what a book was! He had no clue how to open one, instead the robot did it for him. Also when referring to the plant he called it a thingy! He had no knowledge of anything you can find on earth. If you look around the ship you won't see even the slightest trace of any other living creature aside from a human.
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In this other clip from the movie we can see how technology will affect us on a different level. We will become so reliant on the technology that instead of speaking to one another face to face we will rely on video chat. We will become oblivious to the world around us. Towards the end of the clip, WALL-E breaks the ladies virtual bubble, and opens up her eyes to everything around her. As she see's all the glorious things surrounding her she see's the pool and responds with, "uh, I didn't know we had a pool" She has been living in this spaceship her entire life and she had no idea there was a pool, none whatsoever.
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The truth is that technology is a great TOOL to help us better our life, but we should not let technology become our life.
Interesting that you blogged about this on your own first. Your initial description was a good start on this post.
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