I noticed a common thread between Minority Report and The Girl Who Was Plugged In. Both of these stories are set in the future where social institutions have changed. This change is directly of the result of technology and its advancements. Naturally, this has a substantial affect of culture.

After reading these stories, I began asking myself questions like: What is the future of gender? Are the advancements of technology going to blur our gender lines? When the future is depicted through film and literature, we start to imagine less definitions of what is it to be a man and what is it to be a woman. There becomes a homogenizing trend of humanity. Basically, the line between what is male and what is female becomes hazy.

The point of the male is becoming less distinguished. Specifically the physical aspect of it. In the past, the man used his physical capabilities and was to provide for its family. Like hunting, farming and house building. But, due to the advancements of technology, males no longer have to do so much of that. The industrial revolution was the main cause of this change in gender. This is why some men are starting to show more feminine qualities, and women are more equal to men these days. Women no longer are looked at to stay in the house all day and clean and cook. We are beginning to become more of the same. All have the same job. In the future, I'm talkin like thousands of years from now, as a species what will we be. We are one of a couple of mammals on this planet to have pleasure in sex, but once we are the same and there is no difference between male and female, what will we become. Will we lose this pleasure in reproducing and will it be the ending of our species?

At what point should we start revolting this transition of genders and regain what is ours. We need to retain the differences between us because there is value, purpose and reason in that.