week 8 tutespark/tutetask

This week tutorial task we were need to research a theme cyberpunk , find current news which link the topic that I chose, then reflect them use own language. I choice the theme of ' negative impact of technology on humanity, which usually happen in current society around world. With the development of technology, more and more new technology productions are invented by human. Some of them can be reasonable to use, but the others may bring serious influence to society. I found a electronic book on line called ' Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk', the author claim significantly about this topic and the other information about cyberpunk which can help me to understand this topic easily.

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.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/visions1ever1a4040810.pdf

Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk

From DNA to TCP: Humanity and Evolution in Cyberspace

Robin L. Zebrowski

Imagine, for a moment, that your body is simply an illusion. You believe you are reading this page with your eyes, and holding a book with your hands, but in fact you have never even possessed eyes or hands. You are nothing but a brain, suspended in a vat of gelatinous goo, and a scientist pokes and prods your neurons expertly to simulate the activities of a body that you do not have. More extreme than the Matrix, in which people have bodies but never fully use them, in this scenario your mind is much more like a computer, only able to obtain the information given to it by those who control it.

The true is that our brain like big machine system. It can controls our every part of body, let us conceive of it at moment. If people only have brain, which means people's body without hands, eyes, legs and so on. Scientist make our an absolutely fresh body through to stimulate the activities of our body. Unlike people use brain very regularly, people can not use their body very enough. It really easy to find out that our mind very similar to a computer.

Heritability simply means that offspring must resemble the parents in some way. In the case of humans, this happens through genetic combination. Mutation is the notion that there is some change between parent and offspring, and in the case of humans it often occurs by accident. Lastly, competition for resources is necessary for evolution to occur. There must be more offspring than can possibly survive, which drives Darwin’s notion of natural selection – the idea that only those organisms best adapted to their environments will survive to pass their own genes on to the next generation.

The topic of genetic appear in the cyberpunk frequently, heritability as a new concept is discussed by people. It does not mean the offspring of parents must similar with each other. The situation of genovariation often arise the development of human society. Offspring have to competitive with each other, only winner can survive in the competition. ' the idea that only those organisms best adapted to their environments will survive to pass their own genes on to the next generation by Darwin's notional of natural selection.

What this leaves us with is that there is exactly no way to know what it means to be human in cyberspace, since our humanity is intricately connected to our bodies, and they are by definition forbidden to ever enter the space itself. We can discuss those parts of our humanity that are relinquished when we enter cyberspace (in many cases this includes inhibitions, morals, and accountability) or we can discuss those parts of our humanity that are squeezed between the cracks into our text and then actually make the journey to be cast off into cyberspace. These are both important discussions (although space limits them here). Yet it will always return to the fact that our bodies define us, and without them, we are less than human.

People still need to figure out the meaning of cyberspace, because we do not know it very much. Our bodies have relation between humanity, moreover, the definition of them can not enjoin to the space itself. Which means when people surfer on line and join the cyberspace, it involves inhibitions, morals, and accountabilities and so on. In addition, people can talk about those aspects, get in to cyberspace. The most important thing is that our bodies give our definitions, if we have not them, we are less than human.

The fossil extremely record shows very clearly that there is no central line leading steadily, in a goal-directed way, from a protozoan to man. Instead there has been continual and intricate branching, and whatever course we follow through the branches there are repeated changes both in the rate and in the direction of evolution. Man is the end of one ultimate twig. The housefly, the dog flea, the apple tree, and millions of other kinds of organisms are similarly the ends of others.

According to the fossil record, actually central line leading is non existent.The end of the ultimate twig is man, even the branches which changes again and again, both them in the rate and in the direction of evolution regularly. The other kinds of organisms have similar ends, such as the dog flea, the apple tree...

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems

A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.

Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions last October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms. The informant also produced evidence that Jacobsen was behind an offer to provide T-Mobile customers' personal information to identity thieves through an Internet bulletin board, according to court records.

Jacobsen could access information on any of the Bellevue, Washington-based company's 16.3 million customers, including many customers' Social Security numbers and dates of birth, according to government filings in the case. He could also obtain voicemail PINs, and the passwords providing customers with Web access to their T-Mobile e-mail accounts. He did not have access to credit card numbers.

The case arose as part of the Secret Service's "Operation Firewall" crackdown on Internet fraud rings last October, in which 19 men were indicted for trafficking in stolen identity information and documents, and stolen credit and debit card numbers. But Jacobsen was not charged with the others. Instead he faces two felony counts of computer intrusion and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer in a separate, unheralded federal case in Los Angeles, currently set for a February 14th status conference.

The government is handling the case well away from the spotlight. The U.S. Secret Service, which played the dual role of investigator and victim in the drama, said Tuesday it couldn't comment on Jacobsen because the agency doesn't discuss ongoing cases-- a claim that's perhaps undermined by the 19 other Operation Firewall defendants discussed in a Secret Service press release last fall. Jacobsen's prosecutor, assistant U.S. attorney Wesley Hsu, also declined to comment. "I can't talk about it," Hsu said simply. Jacobsen's lawyer didn't return a phone call.

T-Mobile, which apparently knew of the intrusions by July of last year, has not issued any public warning. Under California's anti-identity theft law "SB1386," the company is obliged to notify any California customers of a security breach in which their personally identifiable information is "reasonably believed to have been" compromised. That notification must be made in "the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay," but may be postponed if a law enforcement agency determines that the disclosure would compromise an investigation.

Company spokesman Peter Dobrow said Tuesday that nobody at T-Mobile was available to comment on the matter.

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/analysis_of_cyberpunk_subculture.html