{"id":353,"date":"2015-10-08T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:40:03","slug":"parallels-to-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/parallels-to-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallels to modern life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class on Wednesday, the presenters brought up an interesting inquiry with their discussion questions: can the you, the reader, see parallels in <em>Snow Crash<\/em> to our current society, and do you think those connections are promising or threatening? To specific points that my group and I focused on were surveillance and how technology hinders social interaction. Regarding surveillance, the advanced technology that we see in the novel, like CIC and Gargoyles, allow people to access infinite information about others. We can see a little bit of that today with the government&#8217;s ability to keep tabs on its citizens and big corporations, like Google, to keep an eye on what people are doing online. These types of surveillance definitely have both pros and cons, however, we struggle with coming up with an answer to how far do we are willing to let this go. With technology&#8217;s affect on social interaction, the characters in <em>Snow Crash<\/em> let technology distract them from what is going on in real life around them; \u201cHe turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it&#8217;s happening to him. Very post-modern\u201d (305). We see things like this happening in our lives with our use of social media. But, even though technology can limit our amount of face-to-face interaction, it expands our ability to communicate with more people electronically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class on Wednesday, the presenters brought up an interesting inquiry with their discussion questions: can the you, the reader, see parallels in Snow Crash to our current society, and do you think those connections are promising or threatening? To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/parallels-to-modern-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}