Lawnmower Man

Work Title: Lawnmower Man
Medium: Film
Episode Title:
Year: 1992
Writer(s): Stephen King
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s): Brett Leonard
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: Yes
Summary:

A retarded man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. (Movie Database)

Era/Year of Portrayal: near_future
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

VR technology in the time of movie has pervaded

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: virtual reality
  • Description of the technology: a large computer facility eqipped with several devices is the main presence-evoking technology
  • Nature of task or activity: He is the subject in VR experiment
  • Performance of the Technology: VR technolgy is potrayed in a negative way at the end of the movie. The user is trying to dominate VR technology in order to enhance his power of ruling the whole network in the world.
  • Description of creator(s): Man looking like around 30s,
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): The creator experiment VR technology to enhance the human intellegence.
  • Description of users of technology: Man in around 20s. He is a retarded adult.
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: both
  • Description of presence experience: Immersion
  • User awareness of technology during experience: Every users using the technology device are aware that they are using a technology even though they sense the high presence exeperience.
  • Valence of experience: The user has a positive feeling about the experience while experimenter has a negative one.
  • Specific responses: Before: nothing to know about technology. During: enjoyment, intelligence enhancing test, psychological desentitization, learing. After: high intelligence, enhanced judgement, digitized body
Long-term consequences:

The consequences of using the technology turned out to be the destruction of human identity.

Other:

Coder name: SungBok Park & Ha sung Hwang
Coder email: not given
Coder affiliation: not given