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A New SociAl ScoriNg



            The main difference is that technology now allows us to
            easily score each other based on our online behavioral
            habits and patterns.

            Another film that depicts the impact of technology on
            our future  lives is “In Time.”  Andrew Niccol wrote  and
            directed the 2011 science fiction film In Time, starring
            Justin  Timberlake  and  Amanda Seyfried. It  depicts  a
            social system based on an embedded biological digital
            clock.

            This  takes  place  in  the  future,  when  time  is  the  only
            valuable  commodity. People  have a clock embedded
            in  their wrist, and  when it  reaches  zero, they die.  The
            premise is that after the age of 25, the ageing gene shuts
            down and  they  only  have  a  year  to  live.  However,  the
            body clock imprinted on the left forearm does not start
            ticking until they reach the age of majority (i.e. 25 years
            of age). As a result, they are safe until their 25th birthday.
            So, while everyone wants to know how to stay 25 forever,
            there  is  always  the  possibility  that  something  will  go
            wrong.When the clock begins to tick, the poor must work
            to gain more time. However, the wealthy can buy time.
            So, it clearly becomes a class struggle, with the wealthy
            having millions of hours to do whatever they want. Time
            is literally money in this world.

            As  a  result  of running  out of time,  everyone  has  the
            ability to create, steal, buy or borrow time; all of this is
            transmitted via your pulse in your left arm.
            Of course, there are the class enforcement officers and
            the  policing  of where  and  how people  obtain  and  use
            any extra time gained. All of this is made possible and
            supported  by a  world of digitally  centralized  data  to
            monitor and control its population and societies.



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