Week 8 Tute.

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Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes.

http://www.cyberpunkwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Cyberpunk%3F defines cyberpunk as:
Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.

Positive influence of technology on humanity include medical advancement, industry and space exploration the following URL is an example
http://www.helium.com/items/1400653-robots-robotics-asimov-science-fiction-and-robotics-turing
Cyberpunk moves more towards the fictional or creative concept of the effects on humanity, similar to Jules Vern in his era.

http://www.rhizomes.net/issue8/powley.htm quote " In her latest book, Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture, Elaine L. Graham explores the question of what it means to be human by examining the role of the "other" in narrative, myth, and pop culture. This "other" may be Mary Shelly's monster from Frankenstein, Star Trek's android, Data, or a cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator."
The concept of negative influences of technology are discussed or illustrated in many sci fi genre as indicated in the above quote.

Another example is shown in the movie lawnmower man, the contrasts demonstrated between technology and the impact on humanity exciting to consider. This as a work of fiction made for a entertaining story, but when looking at modern developments in technology both positive and negative impacts can easily be perceived in relation to humanity. Conciser war, industry, medical etc.