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Project: Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

Summary: An atheist of science, who has been expelled from his space community because of his unacceptable declarations, searches for the traces of sciences and technologies invasion by going back to earth, where it started.
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It has never been called as an invasion until now. I am probably not the first one the criticize this but it has been celebrated by many as machines slowly took over, how we live and what do we live. The change from the human bodies dependency on it own capabilities to the support of machine has brought comfort and hope for the future of man kind. But as I look down my window now all I see are metal pieces passing by through where we choose to live.

People have thought technology would become invisible as we develop it further but the assumption was clearly wrong, maybe it is even more true that humans disappeared into the overgrown prosthetic shells, the rituals of mechanics as it is called today, have took over. Now as we just obey without questioning, science has replaced what religion was to early humans and machines became the ceremonial artifacts spread through out our day. As further we got every new artifact or button or suit has became more and more abstracted from their main purpose, to survive where we are not meant to be.

My need of learning have led me to this search I am hoping there, where humans meant to survive, I am going to find the freedom or at least find another solution from the traces of what have led us where we are.

Many years ago at the early days of humanity which they have called the age of modernity an important philosopher of those times made an important definition. “To see the objects in our world only in terms of how they can serve us or be used by us. The task is to find ways to resituate ourselves vis-� -vis these “objects,” so that we may see them as “things” pulled into relief against the ground of their functionality.”…

But what is the function of all these things around me? Do they actually do what I told that they do? When I am traveling do I really need to go through all that security, does all those machines really check something or are we suppose to get the feeling of being secure? Then isn’t the function of the mechanics is to create an aura of safety. If the ceremony is serving or the aura isn’t the mechanics are the artifacts of this ritual. It is not just a piece of polycarbonate that separates me from the unknown scary outside; it is a port full of machines and never ending procedures.

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