Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Discussion Questions 1/10/14

Petopia Questions.

1. As a child, I used to wonder if my parents actually "owned" the houses they lived in. They paid taxes to a government to live in the house they bought. In "Petopia," a similar theme arises with Fluffy. He says that the company also owns him even though people bought him. Is this true with much of today's technology? Do we actually own anything?

2. At the end of "Petopia," we see Fluffy and Mina hacking into old hardrives to access the personal information of past users. Is this a risk we currently have?

3. Fluffy asks about why Mina doesn't go to school. Is this a reflection on us as a society? What do we take for granted that others don't have any hope of accessing?

4. What does that say about American society that we are willing to pay huge amounts of money just in the name of fun, when people are barely able to scrape by?

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