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Took me some time to decide where to post this, hopefuly it fits here.
I'll start with Series where I found this concept. In Red Dwarf there is kind of technology called Justice technology, sort of carma redirecting tech, that watches what you do and if you are good, it rewards you, if bad, it punishes you. It is supposed to work by tech altering reality to get you what you deserve quite fast. It was interesting idea for tech for the prison.
But way more interesting was a tale of deep space ship with human crew, that was going on a long trip and to keep everyone on high morale they had this tech on board. And there were man and woman, both married, but not together. And they had love affair. The tech kept punsihing them, so it soon became hell for them. So she, being computer expert, decided to hack the tech to reverse the script, punishing for good, rewarding for bad. It is not said what happpened afterwards except that entire crew ended dead and ship crashed...
Despite the series being stupid sitcom it had few genial ideas on technology. Justice technology, or keeping Ai in check through giving them religion, instaling that into their program so they would not want to rebel, because then they would not get to heaven.
And this tale of the deep space ship (apparently intentionaly named Samsara) made me think about our own society, how we develop our technology and keep watching each other through it. We are getting closer and closer to experience same concept of technology in our lives.
I personaly think that we as humanity cannot keep up with living under such surveilance. But if it becomes core of our civilisation, then how long before someone frustrated to the bottom by their prohibited desires alters the code or simply destroys it?
What do you think? A little dystopian topic, but I beleive it is worth thinking about, because that technology seems to be slowly being developed and implemented, bit by bit.
I'll start with Series where I found this concept. In Red Dwarf there is kind of technology called Justice technology, sort of carma redirecting tech, that watches what you do and if you are good, it rewards you, if bad, it punishes you. It is supposed to work by tech altering reality to get you what you deserve quite fast. It was interesting idea for tech for the prison.
But way more interesting was a tale of deep space ship with human crew, that was going on a long trip and to keep everyone on high morale they had this tech on board. And there were man and woman, both married, but not together. And they had love affair. The tech kept punsihing them, so it soon became hell for them. So she, being computer expert, decided to hack the tech to reverse the script, punishing for good, rewarding for bad. It is not said what happpened afterwards except that entire crew ended dead and ship crashed...
Despite the series being stupid sitcom it had few genial ideas on technology. Justice technology, or keeping Ai in check through giving them religion, instaling that into their program so they would not want to rebel, because then they would not get to heaven.
And this tale of the deep space ship (apparently intentionaly named Samsara) made me think about our own society, how we develop our technology and keep watching each other through it. We are getting closer and closer to experience same concept of technology in our lives.
I personaly think that we as humanity cannot keep up with living under such surveilance. But if it becomes core of our civilisation, then how long before someone frustrated to the bottom by their prohibited desires alters the code or simply destroys it?
What do you think? A little dystopian topic, but I beleive it is worth thinking about, because that technology seems to be slowly being developed and implemented, bit by bit.
