Cronenberg is always known for using film to make social commentaries on the world as it is today. Existenz is no different in this particular case. Now-a-days there aren't a lot of things we do now that doesn't involve a high level of technology. Video Games get increasingly more and more real. This in return has people becoming more and more dependent on technology to get through live without going crazy along the way. The movie focuses on a virtual reality game and its designer. She is targeted by assassins that want the new game and they will do anything to get their hands on it. This means even killing her and whoever she is with. Cronenberg is showing the audience his take on how society treats envancements in technology. They become dependent on it and when it is unvailable to them (internet, videogames, DVR, ipods, cell phones) something in them feel like it is missing and they will go to any lengths to retreive it back. Cronenberg and Hayles believe that the furthering of technology will only takes us as humans farther away from our own humanity.... to the point where we aren't even human anymore. We are posthuman.... to cronenberg we won't know what's real and whats virtual reality and things will dissolve from there where as Hayles believes that cyborgs will come into existence and eventually wipe us out for good.
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