2040 To the Future and Beyond

Yawn, the alarm clock that is installed in my left ear started to go off. I roll out of my sleeping compartment and see my holographic outfit design center pop up, after a waterless shower I pick out a black suit and a neon green oxygen mask for the day. I jump on my hover cycle and race to class only at the speed of light because I just got a ticket last week for 188,256 Deici. Once parked in the tower and locked on to power charging I enter the learning center. I see all the age brackets that are the same age as I and after some time everyone sits down and settles in for the day. At exactly eight am earth time, the attendants come out with the dreaded syringes filled with neon blue liquid. After each student is shot in the soft spot of the neck with the lesson for the day, we all have to sit there and watch a review of the information that was just injected; they say the review sets it in the brain for life. I doubt it and I find it the most boring part of the day. By three o’clock earth time, we are free to go. Finally my friends and I head out for some synthetic food substances, there has been no real earth grown food for five years not but the synthetic isn’t that bad and its managed to keep the population of 90 million alive, so we cant complain. Then for a bit of fun we go race, the policia can’t keep up with the newest attachment for the hover bikes and we love it. Around Five pm my female parental unit called my telephonic mental attachment, I can’t pretend like I don’t hear it because its implanted in my brain. She upset and wants me to come back to port if I ever want to visit mars of the school trip I better make it fast, so I teleport back home. After a lesson on the dangers of the newest facial reformation and how the aliens are going to blow up the whole station my “mother” lets me go into my studio. I finish the mental download required for school, to prove again that the information injected made it into the cerebellum, and into the sleep compartment to do it all over again tomorrow, mental engage off!

Blog Number 7

This article “Pictures in Our Heads” by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson was extremely interesting, it talks about the connection between what we see on television and our perception on issues and the world. The article goes into great detail on two scientific experiments, the first conducted by George Gerbner he looked at prime time television and how accurately it depicted the real world. He found it to be completely false in nearly all aspects but also concluded that a shocking amount of people are effected by what they see on television, things like people develop less sympathy for rape victims, think crime is the norm, overestimate the number of physician and had more racially and sexist attitudes. The second experiment was conducted by Shanto Iyengar and Donald Kinder, these political psychologists alter the new contend for three different groups each with their own focus on important issues facing America. After a week the tested individual’s opinions were influenced by the programming and felt their focus issue was really the most important. In a way both studies support each other, the both prove that the messages seen on television create our perception of reality, weather its political or day to day reality. Both studies show that you can change people views on their own world just by what is projected upon them via the tube, scary to think about next time you sit down to watch Spongebob!