10 Most Technophobic Movies

Got a note from Florine @ the College Crunch site telling me about a post with the same name as this one. Here are a few excerpts from the intro:
"Technophobia" is a pretty easy word to break down: fear of technology, specifically of advanced computers or other devices and a belief that they will lead to humanity's ruin. ... real technophobia deals with tech gone awry, taking over a person or city or world in order to execute its own lethal agenda.
I have never really taken this seriously - although I still wonder if the government will one day mandate that a chip be implanted in our wrists or forehead.. as in the mark of the beast in the book of Revelation. I can see that happening as a reaction to identity theft. Even so I am not fearful about it and have not thought about it lately. Here is their list of most technophobic movies and a few of my comments:
  1. The Matrix - loved the imagination.
  2. WALL-E - have not seen it.
  3. The Terminator - love the idea of time travel.
  4. Frankenstein - this one scared me silly when I was young.
  5. The Day the Earth Stood Still - saw the recent version.
  6. Metropolis - have not seen it.
  7. Demon Seed - have not seen it.
  8. Jurassic Park - an interesting take on Dinosaur DNA.
  9. Avatar - was surprised that the story was pretty good.
  10. Star Trek - been a Trekker since the Kirk and Spock.
I recommend that you read the entire post here. They have good insights.

Are you a technophobe? Can you think of other technophobic movies?

4 comments:

  1. I'm no technophobe, my fear is more of what humans will do with the technology.

    "...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." --
    Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

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  2. Good delineation Mike. Technology is neutral. Until it becomes sentient anyways. :)

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  3. Wall-E is cute, Bob. It would make a sweet Valentine's Day movie for you and Ann. In the end, it's the good droids against the bad droids and the good droids win.

    I think Mike has the right idea too. It's not the technology, it's what humanity chooses to do with it. I recently read some Japanese scientists are going to try to bring back the Wooly Mammoth. To what end, I wonder, well, besides human ego. Why not try working to save the endangered animals (tigers) we still have instead?

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  4. Just watched Matthew Broderick in War Games last week. Now that's a scary one (only because it seems so probable).

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