{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"72047352","dateCreated":"1423760400","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2015","userCreated":{"username":"tardycannon","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tardycannon","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ccs395.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/72047352"},"dateDigested":1532726244,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Professor's comments","description":"One might continue to explore this question by thinking through Michael's term 'technological fantasy'. Where do these fantasies begin? Often writers of science fiction project these images of the future decades and even centuries before they materialize in technological form. And yet, there's always a disparity between the projection and the actual materialization which says more about the historical context of the earlier period. What's interesting to me about this question is how there continually seems to be a loose consensus about what the future should hold: for example such things as flying cars, space travel, tele-video communication (which we now have), etc. We can therefore ask, what holds this consensus together? Does the very notion of 'futuristic technologies' that imply leaping through time and space at great speeds, unlimited convenience afforded through the push of a button, outsourcing manual labour to intelligent robots, etc.? Why does it not seem to imply other things, such as solving world problems of war and hunger, empowering an egalitarian citizenry, or even using AI to try to answer the meaning of life?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}