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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies - Andrew Maynard</h1>
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2018-11-29
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/andrew-maynard/">#andrew maynard</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies/">#movies</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/technology/">#technology</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/philosophy/">#philosophy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-4/">#stars:4</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41045578-films-from-the-future">GoodReads summary</a>:
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Science, technology, and society: In Films from the Future, former physicist
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Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science fiction movies with his
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expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain and make you think
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about the relationship between technology, and society as they discover
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astounding, transformative advances in science. Through the imagination and
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creativity of science fiction movies, Maynard introduces readers to the
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profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the
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complex personal and societal challenges they present.</p>
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★★★★☆
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<p>Writing a review of this book is hard, 'cause all I have are some disconnected
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options about it -- and, in a way, these opinions may only reflect the
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disconnected points in the book.</p>
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<p>So, first point: I find it weird to read a <em>book</em> about <em>movies</em>
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which, in most part, are based on <em>books</em>>. One of the points, about Dan
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Brown's "Inferno" even mentions that, as a ethics discussion, the book takes a
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step further than the movie. Although the point of using movies was more of
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"opening discussions using art", it seems weird not to use the books, which are
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more rich and more intricate, to raise moral and ethical points.</p>
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<p>Second point: Some movies seem just an excuse to discuss other things. For
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example, "Transcendence" (which, against the first point, it is not based on a
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book). Instead of giving real focus to nanotechnology -- and its ethical and
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moral uses -- and focuses way too much on the Luddite part it, talking about
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some real life counterparts and explaining their point of view and how it
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affects science in general.</p>
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<p>Third point: It is way too long. I mean, most of the subjects the author just
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keeps dancing around the topic and don't move forward. "Transcendence" is,
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again, a typical case: Yes, Luddites have some points, yes, maybe we shouldn't
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listen to all the point, but the fact is, all the time, those two points keep
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coming and going, for pages, without reaching a conclusion. At some point, I
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was just reading the first half of the paragraphs 'cause I noticed the second
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half would be repeated either in the first part of the next paragraph or just
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the one following it.</p>
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<p>But, on top of that, I guess the "Morality" part of the title may lead to some
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confusion. It's not "you, random person reading this book, here are some
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morality discussions about things you do"; it's way more as "we, scientists,
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must have some moral discussions about what we are doing". It could clear the
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air for "random persons reading the book" about how science -- and scientists
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-- work, but still it is a discussion about morality with scientists.</p>
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<p>And, in a way, it may also throw people into sciences, because it shows that
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scientists are not just "let's find out what's here", but they are worried (or,
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at least, as the book tries, should) about the moral repercussions of what they
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are working on.</p>
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