In class we talked about a proposed website that would allow people online to control a gun that shoots actual deer. Click on
this link to read about a different approach to digital hunting. The article (Sarasota Herald Tribune, 10-17-10) describes how cameras are mounted on gun scopes and and hunters aim at the animals but don't actually shoot them. The video images are saved and offered as evidence that they would have killed the animal. The technology thus mixes actually tracking animals with the woods with something similar to hunting animals (or humans or monsters) in a video game. Competitions are being created in which hunters stalk their deer and compare potential kills, but no animals are actually harmed (like the tagline at the end of films). Has this technology "solved" the problem of how to satisfy humans' recreational desire to hunt and kill animals without actually inflicting harm on the animals?
In class we talked about a proposed website that would allow people online to control a gun that shoots actual deer. Click on this link to read about a different approach to digital hunting. The article (Sarasota Herald Tribune, 10-17-10) describes how cameras are mounted on gun scopes and and hunters aim at the animals but don't actually shoot them. The video images are saved and offered as evidence that they would have killed the animal. The technology thus mixes actually tracking animals with the woods with something similar to hunting animals (or humans or monsters) in a video game. Competitions are being created in which hunters stalk their deer and compare potential kills, but no animals are actually harmed (like the tagline at the end of films). Has this technology "solved" the problem of how to satisfy humans' recreational desire to hunt and kill animals without actually inflicting harm on the animals?
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