Kyaw Win - New drama to be staged in the sky

Chapter (1)

A new drama set in the sky

Announcement from the sky

- Creator of bonds

Oh - Lord of the material world...

- Your steel house has collapsed.

I have built my silk house.

- "In cyberspace"

You have no place, you have no power.

Your conclusion, my introduction.

A new story is about to begin.

It is not a poem. It is the opening text of a “declaration” of about eight hundred words. Although it is called a “declaration,” it was not issued by national leaders or politicians. It was the work of rock musician John Perry Barlow and a group of young people. It is also difficult to say which country or city the declaration came from. Because it was not written on earth, but rather came from an “online discussion.” It is officially called the “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.”

The Declaration seems to challenge all the declarations that have appeared in history, from the American Declaration of Independence to the Communist Manifesto to the United Nations Declaration. To help us grasp this point, let us briefly introduce some of the implications of the document. His paper . . . “Information technology has given birth to a new culture. Not a “material” earthly culture, but a new culture from heaven that has broken through the “material” trap. Therefore, it has been temporarily named “cyber culture.” We believe that this new culture will be able to accurately embody the universal values ​​of “freedom, justice, and peace” that all earthly cultures have failed to fully create.”

This could be the ending theme song of an "old great drama" that has been around for as long as human existence, or the opening theme song of a "new great drama" that has been filmed with IT.

Conclusions

Orwell Survey

George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book that has been widely regarded by scholars as a prophetic vision of the future of "IT" that will emerge 35 years from now. According to Orwell, "IT" will be used as the "Big Brothers' Eyes" for "Strongmen". Members of society will be constantly monitored through the "Tele Screen". However, in 1984, Orwell's vision was not as he had imagined. As a result, the effects of IT have been examined by re-examining George Orwell.

Orwell's prediction was correct until the "Lyonist era," the mid-day of the Soviet era. The Kremlin elites "had mastered IT and were spoon-feeding the masses information." The Soviet economy that Mikhail Gorbachev inherited was an old, unincorporated IT economy. "Unless we give free rein to new scientific and technological ideas, which are essential for a modern state, we will inevitably face the sunset of socialism," Gorbachev himself admitted.

Indeed, this conclusion paved the way for “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring). But for Gorbachev, it was too late. The “medicine” he had concocted could not cure the Kremlin’s chronic illness, and he, his country, and the system he had built up to be a success came to an end. Social scientist Francis Fukuyama has assessed the collapse of the Soviet Union as “a failure to meet the challenges of the information age.” IT, as George Orwell predicted, has become “the eye of the big brother” rather than “the mirror of the little brother.” Assessing this situation, political scientist Ishtiaq Solapur has labeled IT the “Technology of Freedom.”

Chaplin returns.

There is a Charlie Chaplin film that came out during the industrial age. It is a film called “Modern Time”. In the film, Chaplin is a worker in a large factory. His job is to tighten the bolts that come in front of him along the assembly line with a pair of pliers. Chaplin, who cannot escape this job, always has a habit of tightening everything he sees with pliers. Thus, the image of him holding a pliers while walking, eating (and, to be honest, making love to his girlfriend) is both funny and heartbreaking. The film was praised for being able to accurately portray the lives of workers trapped in the industrial era.

Chaplin's film is said to be particularly popular during the corporate scandals in the United States. To begin with, the story begins not in America, but in the superstar Japan, which has risen from a post-war shadow to the status of a second economic superpower. The Japanese-style corporatism is often criticized. In fact, the Japanese-style corporatism combines capitalism with traditional Keiretsu culture. "Family ties", "paternalism" and a strict hierarchy are prominent features. This system may have helped propel the post-war Japanese economy, but it is no longer viable in today's era of interdependence and inevitable interdependence.

As Japan’s economic stagnation dragged on, people began to look to the American corporate model. The American model was not a perpetual corporate system like Japan’s. It was hoped that the more independent it was, the more resilient it would be. However, when the corporate scandals of the early 21st century began to unfold, that expectation was no longer fulfilled. The fact that most corporate profits were going into the pockets of CEOs was no longer hidden. The big accounting firms that were supposed to be the watchdogs of the corporate system were themselves the ones who were

The Great Depression

There is a book by Professor Francis Fukuyama, who shocked the academic world with his theory of the end of history. It is The Great Disruption. It describes the social landscape of the United States and European countries that occurred between the 1960s and the 1990s. According to Fukuyama, these developed countries are experiencing three types of disruptions at the same time. Crime is on the rise, marriage is breaking down, and trust is collapsing. He notes that everything from the basic unit of a society, the family, to the highest structure, the state, is inextricably linked to the process of disruption.

There are also those who analyze the causes of the collapse, such as "Why the Great Depression." According to sociologist Daniel Bell, the cultural elites produced by the industrial age

Revolutionary expressions. They point to the dissatisfaction with the times and systems of intellectuals, literary scholars, and other culturally advanced forces. Especially in the field of literature and art, the postmodern movement. Contemporary economist Lester Thurlow tries to explain it in terms of the relationship between technology and ideology. He concludes that new technology (IT) is a conflict that arises when old ideologies cannot keep up with it. Francis Fukuyama himself concludes that it is the last gasp of the industrial age.

There is a clear and definitive conclusion that most scholars seem to agree on here: that the entire social system built on industrial technology is collapsing. I think this could be said to be the final act of the old grand drama.

Introductions

The picture has fallen.

Capitalism and socialism are often seen as opposites, but there are assessments that they share a common basis, as they are ideologies born of the industrial age. Materialistic Superstition In other words, the inability to break through the limitations of matter. With the rapid development of information technology, a term called Virtual Reality has come to the fore. It is not real. But it can be felt almost as real. It is not tangible, but it has full effect. It cannot be approached physically, but it can be practically expressed as a form of energy.

The first apparent use of the Virtual Concept is in the field of Knowledge. Previously, the term "knowledge" was