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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Wall-e

It caught my attention that the channels of communication had changed very little in Wall-E's proposed future. In a world in which the Earth has been exhausted of relevant necessity and life exists only aboard a self-piloted space station/city/luxury cruise/mall/universe, the people, although faceted to 23rd century flying chairs, still rely on 20th and 21st century communication. The main difference in the way people in Wall-e-World receive information from how we receive it today is that they are constantly barraged with information, while we are only seemingly constantly barraged with it. the medium is the message seemed to apply to this, as the fact that the people were completely engulfed by their TV sets had more importance than the information that their TV sets were offering. As seen on TV also had relevance to Wall-e. Although I did not entirely buy Marling's thesis, given that a history of the 1950s in America neglected to mention the Cold War, the legacy of Bretton Woods, Immigration legislation, or African Americans with the exception of Chuck Berry and (albeit indirect) Ike Turner, the world presented in Wall-e (aboard the space ship) echoed the Marling's presentation of the 1950s in that the information received by people influenced, if not controlled, every aspect of their lives.

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