Last week I was lying on my bed late at night procrastinating homework when I stumbled upon a music video that gave me some inspiration. The song "Fake Empire" shows us the harsh reality of our world, a world controlled by the few corporations and their products. The most obvious one of these is Apple, and that's emphasized in Ryan Lewis' video.
This video's image of people's mouths being covered by corporations made me think about my own life and how dependent I was on certain companies, mainly Apple. I sit and write this post on my Macbook pro while checking texts on my iPhone as my mom sits in her room looking for Christmas presents on her iPad and my dad does work on our iMac. Apple truly is a company that my family relies on to function, and I think it's frankly too much.
Technological advancement is supposedly an exponential function. This means that for all the new technology that gets created today, twice that will get created tomorrow. And four times that the next day, eight times that the next day, and so on and so forth. If technology seems advanced now, it's barely scratched the surface of its full potential. This can be explained further by Dan Brown in the video below.
What really scared me as I looked around my house and saw all the Apple products is the idea of the future. If Apple can already dominate technology on the relatively miniscule scale of technology that exists today, imagine where we'll be in twenty years. Will Apple lose its popularity and ultimately become a small company in a large conglomerate of tech overlords? Or will our entire existence be controlled and dictated by one megacorporation?
Talk about a dystopia.
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