La battle against new technologies and social networks is something that is gaining more and more strength in a parallel way to the development of the same, on the one hand technology advances without limits giving us the ability to connect and communicate better on the other hand everything happens contrary, we become more individual people.
Are social networks good? it's good share our whole life in these networks? How far will all this technology take us? These questions are answered in many audiovisual works, films and series pose the problem of these social technologies in a dystopian way showing us an uncertain future where technology prevails in society and becomes a personal-link in people's life. We will see some movies and series that imagine an unfavorable outcome for people.
The always imagined cinema how would the future world be seen in two ways: positive and negative, a perfect utopian future or an imperfect dystopian future where either technology has taken over or has helped us achieve unimaginable things.
Black Mirror
No doubt the dystopian series par excellence showing a near future dark where technology has taken away our identity and left us uploaded to the cloud. In each chapter this series our a different story: social networks, control technology ... etc. If you're passionate about dystopias this is your series.
The circle
Imagine share every second of your life on social media in an automated way (something similar to what we do now) but seen from a more extreme way. The movie is a mix between Black Mirror and a TED talk where a great pioneering company in that sector shows a technology that can have its good and bad sides.
Elysium
In this film we are presented with a future society where the main problem is big class difference: rich class and poor class (something not very different from what we have now) but in a futuristic environment where the upper class lives in another planet with great technology. The film shows the class struggle and how despite being so advanced the basic problems of society persist.
Here
A society where love has become in the cloud, relationships are no longer personal except through the use of OS. Here shows us in a way close, innocent and sweet a strange future where love can be synonymous with "program" the problem of social isolation, loneliness and individualism enhanced through these fake love shows. Fully recommended for those lovers of deep and close movies.
Altered Carbon
Imagine i could change body at will and that the concept of death has lost meaning because society no longer has to die simply thanks to a technology where it can upload your consciousness to the cloud. This series of Netflix shows us a world where people have lost the essence of humans and the strength to live each moment as if it were the last.
The cinema has always imagined how would the future of humanity be From many points of view, the truth is that what many old movies imagined it ended up becoming something real, the question is: Will the same happen now? Will history repeat itself? ...