Within the world of What Happened to Monday, the world seemed to be more advanced than our current world in certain aspects without any extreme advancements. There are certain technologies that are only available to those in the government. Between Monday to Sunday, there was a wild array of skills demonstrated by the sisters. However, due to their constraint of sharing one public identity, the sisters only have one job working at a bank.
The most common piece of technology in the story that also exists in real life are smart watches. The watch functions as an ID with other capabilities. These watches are provided by the government and can track the wearer while providing the information regarding the owner to the government’s database. They are the most basic and widely owned technology within the story. Even then, it is uncertain whether the homeless population has access to this. When Wednesday was running away from CAB agents, there was a large number of homeless people that lived in tents away from urban areas. In our world, more than 10 percent of the homeless population does not have a photo ID [2]. It is highly likely that the homeless within the world of WHTM do not have access to smart watches and are denied certain rights due to their lack of ID. Computers are another piece of technology that exist within both the real world and the movie, however, this piece of technology is not available to everyone. The Settman sisters are middle-class, thus, having access to this technology. The homeless that were pictured did not seem to have access to such technologies. Additionally, it seemed like only the agents from CAB and other middle-class had access to biometric locks. This is present both in the form of the fingerprint locked gun that Wednesday took from officers and with the retinal scan door lock for the Settmans.
Within every society there is a certain hierarchy, access to certain technology is determined by this hierarchy whether directly or indirectly. In our world, the determining factor to who has access to different technology is wealth [1]. For WHTM, the determining factor is also wealth.
References
1. Horowitz, Juliana Menasce, et al. “Trends in U.S. Income and Wealth Inequality.” Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Project, Pew Research Center, 17 Aug. 2020, www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/.
2. “Photo Identification Barriers Faced By Homeless Persons: the Impact of September 11.” Photo Identification Barriers Faced By Homeless Persons: the Impact of September 11 | The Homeless Hub, www.homelesshub.ca/resource/photo-identification-barriers-faced-homeless-persons-impact-september-11.
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