Technology Exposed In 'The End Of Science Fiction'

Anthologies are the mythologies that assert powerful narratives that reflect the complex issues that affect society. Of the many issues that each period in time has to reflect on, the price of technological advancement is mankind’s current challenge. At an age of exponential technological advancement is our humanity exponentially decaying? Lisel Mueller, in “The End of Science Fiction” poses the argument that technology is a double-edged sword, and humanity ignores the setbacks that progress bring but graciously accepts the benefits. Lisel does this by systematically using element of literature such as setting, ideology, imagery to impart a didactic lesson that mankind should not let technologies overshadow its intrinsic values. By doing so the author brings out the complexity on the issues that faces of life.

As technology dramatically changed society to portray the argument in the poem. Mankind developed the ability to explore the stars but also the ability to destroy itself. The realization in the era of the Cold War that we can potentially explore space, but mankind could also destroy itself through nuclear war made society paranoid about the direction of progress. To elaborate further, the timeline moves to the present and debates that even though technology is prolonging our lives it does not give mankind the right to play God. The unattended result can dehumanize mankind. Then she argues mankind must revert our humanity back to the way it was in biblical time when humanity had compassion. This shift shows how things can be reversed, how they are, and ask mankind to resolve this dilemma. The rest of the poem takes place in modern time but in a more dysfunctional setting. People lack sympathy because of their attachment to technology, then the final stanzas argues that we must go back to the quality such as sympathy that makes us