blog 24

There are a lot of arguments that can be made about the show Dollhouse and the advanced technology they use.  The Dollhouse technology takes a person’s personality and life, downloads it onto a hard drive, and then they use that person’s body in anyway they want.  I think the main argument that can be drawn from this is the ethical implications of such technology.  It is illegal to sell your body but this technology just takes the idea of prostitution to a completely new level.  I found that there are greater implications surrounding the dollhouse technology than simply the ethics of prostitution.  This technology has great power and great possibilities.  When Topher is first brought on board with the LA dollhouse and the Rossum Corporation, he immediately brags about how he can improve the imprinting technology and make it better using waves instead of wires.  The head of security warns that this kind of technology could hold great consequences in the wrong hands.  This warning goes unrecognized and sure enough it leads to the catastrophic downfall of society.  The lesson here is that science makes great advances every day in technology.  The problem is that there needs to be regulations on ethically questionable technology.  The military makes some of the greatest advances in technology but most of this technology could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.  Science has created many advances that have many benefits to mankind but without proper regulation there could be great consequences.  The Rossum Corporation’s greed and lack of regulation or ethical code allowed for the technology to be abused, which led to consequences that nearly ended society.