Technology Careers & Job Alternatives
More recently, fashionable works of science fiction similar to those by Philip K. Dick and William Gibson and films similar to Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell project extremely ambivalent or cautionary attitudes toward technology’s influence on human society and identification. Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism and techno-utopianism and worry the notion of human enhancement and technological singularity which they support. Estimates for the date of this Singularity vary, but prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil estimates the Singularity will occur in 2045. Optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, which…