visions of heaven and hell unlike most of the people in my class this series deeply disturbed me perhaps this is because i do not truly belong here among all the computers fashioning web pages in director presentations i am instead a student of humanity of society of faith and of our most basic thoughts and to me the future is a frightening thought in the future i do not see what the people of singapore see with their tall smooth skyscrapers and fully efficient networks i see the human race in chains but the chain will not be a physical one i see the chain clinging to something far more important our souls even now people give up their lives to machines choosing to interact with it rather than the person next to them one of the scariest images i believe i will ever see is in this very school s lab blank featureless faces staring into a dead fourteen inch screen not talking to each other sending email to someone 3000 miles away but ignoring everyone around them all too reminiscent of the endless corridor of monkeys at typewriters we are becoming a hive of efficiency a strong tireless machine discarding the aging or outdated parts is that all that we ve become parts we as a people not a nation or a community but as a people are slowly losing the ability to interact to commune we are instead replacing this ability with networks of lifeless contacts in our future there may be no friends no one to turn to when you need it no one made of flesh anyway nothing can replace human contact nothing technology has attempted to do this and as of now it is succeeding ask yourself this do you know your neighbours i don t neither do my parents or my brother and i am the only one who is online we have lost the ability to come together to truly interact that is what is causing the apartheid it is too easy now to ignore those who are not like us those who think differently or look differently or even smell differently it is far too easy to shrug off the poor and dismiss their misfortune because we are not forced to deal with it ourselves but the fact remains we are all part of one human family with common characteristics and one soul technology is simply making it easier to forget that and that is wrong