Bitch Planet

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The Use of Future Technology To Force Individuals To Comply to Mandatory Expectations

Through examining the use of technology and how the idea of this futuristic practices and institutions influence the non-compliant convicts. In Bitch Planet the theory of a panopticon, transparency; holographic and artificially intelligent technology create an unruly prison that is constantly under surveillance. Focusing on the corruption in future technology and how it affects individuals that are susceptible towards it. The mistreatment of others can be through the use of propaganda and manipulation to impose ideas onto non-compliant individuals. Similar to the unjust expectations towards women. Though the technological advances brought to the general
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Many researchers such as the team in Palo Alto and Menlo Park California suggest that some of the impacts on artificial intelligence in society are “learning and adaptive systems” along with “modeling”. Learning and adaptive systems are the ability to adapt behavior from previous experiences and modeling are to “develop an internal representation and set of transformation rules which can be used to predict the behavior and relationship between some set of real-world objects or entities.” (Oscar Firschein, Martin A. Fischler, L. Stephen Coles, and Jay M. Tenenbaum, 106) Modeling allows for a hologram to display an ultra-feminine and provocative hologram creates an anamorphic expectation for women and it develops different techniques for gaining information or gaining sentiment from the inmates on the off-planet prison. Furthermore, the use of the hologram establishes a standard that is a complete misrepresentation of women. In Bitch Planet the hologram is scantily clad with only a corset and a veil (nun’s headdress). This depicts women as being sexy, yet conservative which completely gets lost in translation. The intelligent hologram becomes more of a symbol of animosity for the inmates than an educator, teaching them to be compliant. The adaptation of behavior of the artificial intelligence allows for the convicts to have customizable punishments, for example, Cam’s isolation for hours, or Marian’s confession to force the women to comply. Husain Ghuloum “believe[s] that … [holograms] will be an effective teaching tool for the future.”(Husain Ghuloum, 699-702) However, Bitch Planet demonstrates how the use of holograms misrepresents the entire female gender into a hyper-feminine spiritual judge, forcing to the inmates confess their sins. The hologram uses a

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