For this week I choose assignment I
decided to re-watch the Matrix. It’s a good movie that makes you think about
how powerful computer have got and what their potential could be. With that its
still a science fiction movie. The idea of connect our brains to a computer
seams to be the direction that we are moving to. The idea of controlling and
being able to enhance our learning with a chip in our head. To be able to have
this chip in our head and connect and learn things as fast as downloading a
program to a computer. We could advance society by having a smarter population.
But before I get to far off track this is what is happening in the movie, Neo
gets unplugged from the Matrix and about the ship he learns Kun-fu in seconds.
Then continues to go on for hours. Then learns that the matrix is like a
computer game that some rules can be broken while others only bent. Also that “the
one” has admin rights and can rewrite all the rulers. As shown in the end when
he flies away. The part of the movie that also seems real is the way we as a society
continue to integrated computers in our daily lives as they advance and get
smaller and smaller. This integration comes at a cost though, the more we
interact with computers, tablets, smart phones the more we depend on them for
even the simplest tasks that may have only taken a minute for us to do. We are
moving to make life easier for humans by making computer do more and more for
us. Its only a matter of time before someone can figure out how to make a
computer think on its own and learn new things. Once that happens humans will
no longer be the supior spices. While computer wouldn’t be living things they
will be able to out think us and create machines that could do anything better
than the human body can. This tough process is the bases for the movie.
Computers learn to think and they start a battle between them and us. They plug
us in and use us as slaves without us even knowing. They lead us to think that
we are living our lives and have control of what is happening. But they have
networked us into a system like we have done with them for so long now with the
internet.
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