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=Students Against Government Abuse of Technology (SAGAT)=

//We Use It. They Abuse It.//

Public Service Announcement Script
[Music Begins //1812 Overture// by Tchaikovsky] //Oh my god, I got a new ipod yesterday. I had the mini but they came out with the Video. I can watch all my favorite tv shows whenever I go. No Matter if I'M in the bathroom or in the cafeteria or on a plane, I can watch videos, see pictures and listen to music. To think that 10 years ago, all they had were crappy walkmans. They are so old! And Cell phones! I just got a razor! To think they didn't have cell phones 20 years ago. That is so gross. Well I spose its not as bad as 200 years ago when they didn't even have electricity! God, without technology I wouldn't be free to roam the world! I would die with out it!//
 * The Video Contains:** Pictures of war, destruction, soldiers, casualties of war, and civilians involved in war appear rapidly on the screen in accordence with the beat of the music.
 * While the pictures are appearing on the screen a voice of a teenage girl starts speaking in the background:

Voice ends then words come up on screen: We Use It. They Abuse It. A Message from Sagat Students Against Government Abuse Of Technology sagatbantech.org The End Will Be Near If The Abuse Continues

Producers' Note
For many people technology is their best friend: it saves them time at work, it entertains them at home, and it provides a media web for their insatiable social needs. For some people, such as helpless war victims staring up at an approaching bomb moments before detonation, technology is their worst enemy. Technology’s benefits are well known and commonly reaped. In the U.S. studies have shown that over 50% of children alone own personal cell phones and over 45% of Americans downloaded music in 2006. Still over 300 million people were recorded using Instant Messenger to satisfy their social needs in 2005. However, technology is a dangerous concept; while millions of cellular loving students are enjoying the seemingly harmless benefits of their advanced technology, soldiers and civilians are victim to the countless horrors of advanced military technology. It is impossible for civilization to sufficiently explore technology without experiencing its most horrible capabilities. Technology has also been used to make human survival easier. When guns were invented animals became easier to kill and food became quickly abundant and more accessible to the general public. However, along with the obvious benefits of guns for the hungry masses, the invention of guns also made people easier to kill quickly, efficiently, and in larger amounts than ever before. Guns are an excellent example of how exploring technology can start out constructive and then turn ugly. Although technology is invented to better and free mankind it is often abused and leads to the world’s destruction on a large scale.

The destructive effects of technology’s existence in modern society are evidently not recognized as disturbing enough to inspire a worldwide technology boycott. This PSA aims to exploit the fact that the general public’s refusal to part with their beloved technological conveniences has perpetuated a societal enchantment with technology that has led to the development of such devices as the atom bomb. Technology’s raging popularity has allowed it to dominate modern society and because it is the dominant force controlling our society, anybody who controls it may control the society. In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a strict society controlled with absolute power by an elite class’s manipulation of their technological resources. By using telescreens to monitor nearly every move and sound made by the nation’s population, the elite class, also known as “The Party,” is able to mandate orders as well as regulate the actions of the civilian population. Empowered by its technology, The Party has such a strong grip over the civilian population that it successfully wakes up the population every morning at the same time to participate in stretching exercises. Winston Smith, the main character in 1984, describes this unwelcome wake up call: “The telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on the same note for thirty seconds. It was nought seven fifteen, getting-up time for office workers. […] The Physical Jerks would begin in three minutes” (31). The people’s required morning routine is just one example of how The Party uses its technology to maintain absolute control over its people. Technology is a dangerous concept because it creates the potential for one group of people to wield great and terrible power. The PSA focuses mainly on images of combat scenes, tanks, guns, and weapons of mass destruction. These martial images illustrate the great power that technology provides for the government if chosen to be used for the purpose of destruction. The girl’s voice babbling over the images about how much she loves her cell phone and i pod was implemented to show how many people only recognize modern technology as harmless and are not cognizant of its potential for destruction when seriously abused.

In researching for our topic on freedom we came across many different resources that enabled us to craft an awe inspiring PSA. The main idea behind our PSA is to convey to the reader that although technology wide spread and is used for personal gain, it is also used to cause pain and suffering to others. To gain statistics on how many people use different technologies today, such as [|ipods], [|cell phones], and [|instant messenger], we visted different statistic websites. Our research has show that more then half of the population of the United States uses luxury technology. Luxury technology is technology not vital to survival and used for the benefit of the individual. Technology used on a mass scale such as war technologies are those that are harmful to many people, and therefore harmful to the world. The use of the [|Atomic Bomb] in World War II caused widespread death and destruction in japan. Killing over 300,000 people and leaving long lasting radiation effects for future generations. The sources that were most useful to us for this assignment were mainly statistical sources because our PSA is essentally self explanatory, and consists of facts already realized by many.

Work Cited:
“Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Wikipedia. 4 June 2007 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki>.] Atomic Explosion. New York Times. 4 June 2007 <[|http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bh.knu.ac.kr/~sdsong/images/Atomic%2520Bomb.gif&imgrefurl=] [|http://theunknowncandidate.blogspot.com/&h=457&w=651&sz=290&tbnid=SVlS9L6ZVsfw8M:&tbnh=97&tbnw=138&prev=] [|/images%3Fq%3Datomic%2Bbomb%26um%3D1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1>.]

“Cell phone usage Statistics .” Cell Phone Numbers. 2005. 4 June 2007 <[|http://www.cellnumbers.com/cell-phone-usage.aspx>.]

“Enlightening iPod Statistics For 2006.” Ipod hacks. July-Aug. 2006. 4 June 2007 <[|http://www.ipodhacks.com/article.php?sid=1917>.]

“ Instant Messenger A Target for Malicious Attacks .” Clitz Stats. 31 Jan. 2006. . 4 June 2007 <[|http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3581866>.]

“Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --.” Naval Historical Center. 4 June 2007 <[|http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm>.]

“World War One Weapons - New Technology.” Revison Notes. 2001. 4 June 2007 <[|http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/927.html>.]

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