Technology and Totalitarianism

Connecting the dots of several recent important developments, Google, along with other major tech company's are increasingly acting autocratically like they have unlimited power and are answerable to no one.

Technology Taking Over

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-self-driving-better-human-drivers-2016-12

This article talks about experiencing self-driving cars. A person is responsible, yet not in control.

Technology and Totalitarianism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6HKTQZaWa4

Although a short video, I think this is an excellent video that introduces the idea that technology could elimante totalitarianism countries and societies. The example used in the video explains how techonology could possibly be used to elimante the totalitarianism regime of North Korea.

Technology & Totalitarianism

In this video, Fox News discusses how the FBI is spying on people through their webcams. Is this a tie to totalitarianism? Or can this be ethically justified?

What is the connection between totalitarianism and technology?

In today's world, many nations and parties communicate through technology. For example, ISIS reaches out to its followers and posts disturbing videos through the internet. Totalitarian governments use technology as a way to show their dominance and control over the world.

In addition, all a Fascist leader has to do is press enter to create a post in hope to scare and express their dominance around the globe. Totalitarian leaders do not care about freedom or emotion, their main goal is to have power. With technology making it very easy to share and create information, people need to be more cautious when browsing through the internet.

Technology And Warfare

https://www.toppr.com/bytes/how-has-modern-technology-changed-warfare/

The topic of this article is how modern technology has changed warfare. It explains how much of an impact technology has had on warfare and one of the examples they give is how we went from using traditional bows and arrows in wars to now being able to use missiles that can strike with "pinpoint precision" by using GPS.

Tech and Warfare:Drones

Technology its becoming more and more advanced everyday. Since our technology is becoming more advanced everyday all aspects of technology advance as well. One aspect of technology that is advancing rapidly is weapons. One weapon that is very new is drones. Drones are basically flying robots and are killing people without any human interaction. This is something that technology allows. Murder without seeing or doing any of the dirty work of killing someone. This cartoon explains perfectly the awful drone strikes in Syria and how people are being killed by robots who do not deserve to be eliminated.