Interesting to discuss the different ages of the media.
First media - centralised dissemination = 1 source to many receivers
Second media - decentralised interaction = many sources to many receivers
Quote: As Bill Gates stated - the Internet made it possible for an individual to 'publish' to a huge audience (thanks mostly to the web, and initially web pages and html), but increasingly blogs and other mobile technology - phone cameras able to take photos or videos.
Marshall McLuhan believed that it was three media ages - Oral (spoken word) Literate (written word) and Electric (television etc)
Robert K Logan has added to this with the Mimetic age and Interactive / digital age.
So then we were asked the question, will technology provide us with the perfect world? A Utopia so to speak. Some movies have address this particular issue. The Island addresses the fact that humans can or won't accept a perfect world. We are by nature imperfect and although we all work towards perfection, once gained we can not accept it.
Quote from lecture notes: It seems that even in utopian societies (in the film world, at any rate) the peace is disrupted by people who seek to excercise their own human agency and free will.
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