The future of humans and technology can be a very scary reality for some people and I watched movies about what a digital future could look like with the technology we currently possess. The movie that I picked to watch about this is the Disney and Pixar movie, Wall-E, and it’s about two robots Wall-E and EVE and they’re the only robots left on Earth and the movie is about them navigating Earth. In the beginning of the movie, there was the opening scene when the Earth appeared and when it zoomed in, there was a lot of trash covering like half of the planet and it looked like a wasteland almost if the humans deliberately abandoned the planet and migrated somewhere else. Then robots including Wall-E himself were tasked to clean up the Earth and for some reason, he is the only robot left on Earth and unfortunately felt lonely because of that.
Mostly like from the humans, they sent a robot called EVE to examine any remaining life on Earth and Wall-E has an interest in her. The film depicts a scenario where the Earth has become a dystopian, messy, polluted place and was laid waste by the same technology humans have created which eventually made the Earth almost impossible to rebuild. Even the Earth’s atmosphere is polluted by the trash and the broken satellites surrounding its orbit depicts the trash we as humans may not be able to clean up.
Also, there were scenes inside the spaceship where the humans appear to be very out of shape and presumably had no exercise for years. What Wall-E is showing about a digital future is that technology might become so advanced that we as a society could become very lazy and unable to do any basic physical activity. For example, there was a scene where the captain of the ship woke up and had robots do almost every basic task instead of him doing it himself. Additionally, on a side note, the captain was able to control the day, weather, and time such as switching afternoon to daytime because he forgot to do the morning announcement. We could have a digital future where we can absolutely control everything and make anything what we want.