Year 12 Exam : Our soul on an app

For the Year 12 English exam, I included an interesting blog post within the reading section. Most students may be unaware of the fact that this blog post is indeed real, and not something I made up to test their reading abilities.

The original blog post can be found here in its glorious full version, including images:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/inner-peace-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/2012/04/18/gIQA5pzXQT_blog.html

Upon reading the post myself, I went on a bit of a mission to investigate and research the apps the post was describing.

The Dream:ON app can be found here on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dream-on/id504521920?mt=8

and information in relation to GPS for the Soul can be found here:
http://www.heartmath.com/gps-for-the-soul.html



It's a bit concerning that society is willingly to allow their smart phones control every facet of their lives. Will we indeed be 'selling our souls' to iTunes? Will there ever be no such thing as 'free will?'

I find it rather ironic that many wars have been fought and many lives lost fighting for either independence or free will. Yet, as this blog suggests, society wants to revoke this privilege and be controlled and led by an app.

Do people truly believe that the meaning of life will all be revealed in an app? If this were the case, wouldn't we all just Google it? Maybe we are starting to feel unfulfilled in our lives because we are becoming too reliant on technology?

I wonder if we will see an iGod app appearing anytime soon?

This blog got me thinking about the Joss Whedon TV series Dollhouse, in which people voluntarily allowed themselves to become living 'dolls' in which the personalities of deceased humans are uploaded onto them. These 'dolls' are then loaned out to the rich to fulfil whatever they feel is missing in their lives.

Although these apps aren't uploading full personalities onto ourselves, will we ever get to the point where our lives and thoughts are predetermined from birth? Will we in the future have an all new definition of 'designer babies'?

Thoughts?