Editing Technophobia (section)

==Technophobia in arts==
[[File:Frankenstein's monster (Boris Karloff).jpg|thumb|left|''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein's Monster]]'' is often considered to be an early example of technophobic ideas in art.]]
An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://tcjournal.org/vol3/rogers|title=Critical Essay – Old Games, Same Concerns: Examining First Generation Video Games Through Popular Press Coverage from 1972–1985 {{!}} Technoculture|website=tcjournal.org|access-date=2019-11-08}}</ref> 

A 1960 episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' called "[[A Thing About Machines]]" deals with a man's hatred for modern things such as electric razors, televisions, electric typewriters and clocks.<ref>[https://twilightzonemuseum.com/media/machines.php Twilight Zone - A Thing About Machines]</ref><ref>[https://filmschoolrejects.com/exploring-the-twilight-zone-40-a-thing-about-machines-cbfccc36ed/ Exploring The Twilight Zone #40: A Thing About Machines - Film School Rejects]</ref>

Technophobia achieved commercial success in the 1980s with the movie ''[[The Terminator]]'', in which a computer becomes self-aware, and decides to kill all humans.<ref name=":0" /> 

Shows such as ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have tackled the issue of technophobia – most specifically in the episode "[[The Robots of Death]]", with a character displaying a great fear of robots due to their lack of body language, described by the [[Fourth Doctor]] as giving them the appearance of "[[Uncanny valley|dead men walking]]". Series consultant [[Kit Pedler]] also used this fear as a basis for the inspiration of classic ''Doctor Who'' monsters the [[Cybermen]], with the creatures being inspired by his own fear of [[artificial limbs]] becoming so common that it would become impossible to know when someone had stopped being a man and become simply a machine. ''[[Virtuosity]]'' speaks of a virtual serial killer who manages to escape to the real world. He goes on a rampage before he is stopped. This is a true technophobic movie in that its main plot is about technology gone wrong. It introduces a killer who blatantly destroys people.<ref name="scifi">[https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Dinello.pdf Technophobia: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology]</ref>

[[Avatar (2009 film)|''Avatar'']] is exemplary of technology's hold on humans who are empowered by it and visually demonstrates the amount of terror it instills upon those native to the concept. It enforces the notion that foreign creatures from Pandora are not only frightened by technology, but it is something they loathe; its potential to cause destruction could exceed their very existence. In contrast, the film itself used advanced technology such as the [[stereoscope]] in order to give viewers the illusion of physically taking part in an experience that would introduce them to a civilization struggling with technophobia.<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear Man of Extremes|The New Yorker]</ref>