The Luddites of the Industrial Revolution destroyed the machines that were helping the world to progress because they felt threatened, just as Victor Frankenstein felt threatened by his own progress and had wanted to destroy it. This is also much like technology today such as AI, artificial intelligence. For example, in the movie The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony Stark, (played by legendary actor Robert Downey Jr.), creates an AI that he believes will be able to help him, which they then spend nearly the entire movie trying to destroy because they fear that it is a threat. The movie series, Terminator, is also about people who create a technology to help better the world, and then spend multiple movies trying to destroy. Yes these are just movies but these movies were made because this is a real fear that people have. We as humans are constantly creating things for a good purpose which are actually harmful. Plastic was invented in 1907. At the time it was a huge innovation and extremely helpful to humanity as a whole. It's light, strong, and cheap to create. Soon plastic was everywhere, you probably can't look around you without seeing some everywhere. The only problem with plastic is that it doesn't really go away. It contains chemicals that are harmful to the environment and also us humans.
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Austin Chavoen
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