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week 4 Prompt 2

Prompt #2: Museum Communication meets Metropolis: At the museum, look for two examples of science or technology to relate to the film: 1 - Find an exhibit that suggests the film was accurate in communicating the future. 2 - Find an exhibit that suggests the film was inaccurate in its vision of the future.

Today we went to the Communication Museum in Berlin, and saw many different modes of communication, and technology in action. We also watched the movie Metropolis, which makes very strange assumptions about what the future is going to look like.

There were two different exhibits that stood out to me with relation to the movie, the first was the television/multimedia exhibit, and the robot display. The movie portrays a future where humans are controlled by technology, specifically robots. The idea that technology can control humans, and not the other way around it causes what is called a “techno-panic.” The main issue is that it makes humans feel like they are no longer on control of the technology that they have invented. The exhibit in the communication museum that proves the Metropolis’ view of the future correct is the robots exhibit shown in the video below. The robots prove that technology can function independently of human interaction, but in reality the robots actually cant function without humans. This was shown to me when while i was interacting with the robots, something went haywire, and one of the workers had to come over and fix the bot. The idea of the exhibit suggests that the film is accurate in its portrayal of the future. 

The other exhibit that discredits the films portrayal of the future, is the multimedia/television through history. The television exhibit shows how humans have continued to develop and change technology overtime. This contradicts the movies view of the future because humans are still in control of technology.