Chris Post #4

The House Of The Scorpion is set in the future where there are things like hovercrafts, eejits, and much more, but is any of this even possible? The chances of many of these things ever being widely used is very slim. For example there is a low chance of a hovercraft ever being widely used because it would be harder to make. Meaning it would cost more money and probably use more power, and although a hovercraft can go over buildings, and beat traffic, that is all it can do better then a car can do right now. So unless someone finds a super cheap and affordable way to make hovercrafts, then they will never be widely sold.

Another thing to look at is the eejits, but mostly the ethics of someone who would make something like computer chips that you put in peoples brains so they don't do anything accept what they are told. The problem is that we don't know how they were made though so we can't rule out anything. It is a possibility that someone made the chip for animals, but El Patron paid someone to make it work for humans as well. Although if El Patron did make it work on humans chances are news would not get out about it because the only people he might share it to are the other farms in Opium, and other major country's. So unless other country's leaked the computer chip information (which they wouldn't because Opium is one of the most powerful country's in the world and other country's are scared of it), or El Patron didn't care if the information got out, chance are it wouldn't be a huge deal if it did, but it would be annoying for him because there would be protesters saying it's murder.

Now this leaves 1 thing, what time period is The House Of The Scorpion set in? Judging by our current technology and our current rate of growth. i would say if we were to get to the stage of technology the world of House Of The Scorpion is set in we would have to wait another 150+ years, but then again people have tried to predict the technology's in the future and we have both beat the time they set, and didn't even get close to what other people set. So there is no real way of knowing if or when we will ever get to live in the world Nancy has set in the book.