SYFY takes a look at Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS) from the filmJohnny Mnemonic (1995)and asks if we could get sick from tech.
Spider’s rant and the general idea that technology makes people physically sick echoes prior concerns about cancers resulting from cell phone usage — or the more recent (and easily debunkable) 5G conspiracies. More generally, it hints at concerns of exposure to the endless stream of information present on the internet. While certain elements of Johnny Mnemonic are clearly beyond our current reality, some of them are pretty close to the mark.
You see the ZOMBIES everywhere, wandering the streets, heads down, staring at the phone clutched in their left hand…
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/does-technology-make-people-sick-johnny-mnemonic-fake-science
Johnny Mnemonic is the sort of movie you either love or hate, and either of those reactions is perfectly justified. Critical response and the box office were not kind when the movie released in 1995, but in the intervening years, the film found something of a cult following — likely owing to our undying love for Keanu Reeves and the charming retrofuture visions of '90s-era cyberpunk.
And, there’s one more reason to give Johnny Mnemonic another chance: We’re about to line up with it on the calendar. The movie takes place in the second half of January 2021 and imagines a world ruled by corporations and beset by a pandemic. Yikes.
The movie ends with the BigPharma company, PharmaKom burning down…
What a fitting end for the Pharmaceutical Communist Elite!!!