The importance of technology in the novel already shows in its title. Bleeding Edge refers to bleeding edge technologies. This term indicates the speed of technological progress. Similarly, the title has a metaphorical meaning. Bleeding Edge can be interpreted as a wound (Kelly). However, it can also refer to a loss of sharpness as in “the habit things have of ceasing to be themselves – in this case, things such as the internet and New York” (Robson). In other words, technology is evolving so fast
they slaves must go to pray and sing certain parts, the parts that are not going to help them to know about their rights to be free. In church, slaves are going to learn about the importance of obeying their masters, whatever the order is, as not obeying the master is a sin. In order to make them believe in the importance of obeying master, a free black man has been hired to teach them how to be obedient. Being obedient to your master includes hearing words that “scratch ear and brain like fire [,]”
Privacy’s importance is reflected in the fact that the fundamental documents that define human rights all include reference to privacy or related ideas. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR 1948, Article 12) states that “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks”, and Article 17 of
those who claim their rights that does. Though she has suffered a near fatal attack, today she has her own fund for girls’ education, she has spoken in UN for a petition for girls’ education, urging countries to invest in “books, not bullets”. The importance of the war she wages against the violation of rights as she describes in her book, is ‘for all the girls who have faced injustice and been silenced. Today we will be heard.’. Ai Weiwei’s stroke of genius and irony lies in the famous penitentiary