Science fiction Wastelands: Why so Popular?

Everyone has heard about wasteland (post-apocalyptic) in a form of a movie or TV show series and has definitely watched them, such as Pandemic, San Andreas, A Quiet Place, The Matrix, Greenland, The 100 and The Walking dead. Sound familiar? These are just some of the titles listed under the category of wasteland, however, here is an article to look at for the best post-apocalyptic movies

First of all, people like watching post-apocalyptic movies similar to how our younger generation likes watching dystopian movies. But they’re not the same, the difference between dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies is that, dystopian focuses more on cultures and societies that appear stable and well established, whereas post-apocalyptic focuses more cultures and societies being imbalanced or “gone downhill”. Most post-apocalyptic movies are about life being threatened, a disease up rises, natural disaster or war.

Since dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies are quite similar, that means that the same reason that we like dystopian movies is similar to how we like post-apocalyptic movies. In an article I read that is about why we like apocalyptic movies says that people love to see the struggle on a group of people and are fascinated with disaster. Just like dystopian movies, they often view them as pessimistic glimpses into our future, as well as being in survival, people like to watch the characters that try to survive the utter destruction of the world.

From my personal experience from watching post-apocalyptic movies is that I also find that its really interesting to see the characters in the show/movie survive and to also picture scenarios if it were to become a reality. So that is why people like watching post-apocalyptic movies and why it has popularity to it.

The Fear of Future Technology Blog Post #3

As years go by, our technology gets more and more advanced, people creating automated machines and robots with artificial intelligence. This is just the beginning of our future, there will eventually be very smart robots all over the world and that’s a good thing right..? But whats the fear and anxiety all about against robots? First with our growing technology, people fear that robots might take over work and take away peoples jobs, such as factories.

Another fear that people have on robots is that they’re unsafe and dangerous and if they’ll be used against us, which would not likely happen. That is why people are afraid of robots.

Overall, people need to research more into robots and to be more informed about them so it lessons the fear and anxiety over robots

here is a website on 3 reasons why people are afraid of robots

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