Saturday, April 4, 2015

Follow the white rabbit


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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