To begin, Atwood portrays technology as an uncontrollable phenomenon in Jimmy's society. Multiple examples of technology and advanced sciences can be found scattered throughout the novel.
For instance, Jimmy's father had worked for OrganInc Farms as a genographer. He worked closely with genetic modification and gene splicing. After being informed about his father's developments with pigoon skins, Jimmy thinks to himself, “What well-todo and once-young, once-beautiful woman or man, cranked up on hormonal supplements and shot full of vitamins but hampered by the unforgiving mirror, wouldn’t sell their house, their gated retirement villa, their kids, and their soul to get a second kick at the sexual can?” (Atwood 55). Like many members of the …show more content…
The abundance of technology in Jimmy's society has caused some members of the civilization to become socially inadequate. For example, Crake focuses so much of his time on improving his knowledge with the aid of various types of scientific technologies that his social skills suffer in return. He is immensely awkward and only converses with his solitary friend, Jimmy. The technology in Jimmy's society has both positive and negative impacts on human life. It has not only improved manys quality of life, but caused some to suffer through social tension as well. In the end, the overwhelming amount of technology in Jimmy's society has caused many people, specifically young kids to lose valuable social skills. As time went on, Jimmy and Crake continued to mature into curious young tennagers. While surfing the internet one day the boys found many interesting cities to visit. Atwood writes, “Or they might watch hedsoff.com, which played live coverage of executions in Asia. There they could see enemies of the people being topped with swords in someplace that looked like China, while thousands of
For instance, Jimmy's father had worked for OrganInc Farms as a genographer. He worked closely with genetic modification and gene splicing. After being informed about his father's developments with pigoon skins, Jimmy thinks to himself, “What well-todo and once-young, once-beautiful woman or man, cranked up on hormonal supplements and shot full of vitamins but hampered by the unforgiving mirror, wouldn’t sell their house, their gated retirement villa, their kids, and their soul to get a second kick at the sexual can?” (Atwood 55). Like many members of the …show more content…
The abundance of technology in Jimmy's society has caused some members of the civilization to become socially inadequate. For example, Crake focuses so much of his time on improving his knowledge with the aid of various types of scientific technologies that his social skills suffer in return. He is immensely awkward and only converses with his solitary friend, Jimmy. The technology in Jimmy's society has both positive and negative impacts on human life. It has not only improved manys quality of life, but caused some to suffer through social tension as well. In the end, the overwhelming amount of technology in Jimmy's society has caused many people, specifically young kids to lose valuable social skills. As time went on, Jimmy and Crake continued to mature into curious young tennagers. While surfing the internet one day the boys found many interesting cities to visit. Atwood writes, “Or they might watch hedsoff.com, which played live coverage of executions in Asia. There they could see enemies of the people being topped with swords in someplace that looked like China, while thousands of