Jaquelyn Hernandez
IST
11/10/12
Model
11, The Matrix
In
this assignment we were assign to watch a movie of our choice and describe how
computers and networks are demonstrated in the film. I chose the Matrix, I have
always had thought that the Matrix may be the reflection of our possible
future. In the Matrix, humans are being
used as batteries. They are grown by computers to be used as devises, that is.
As these people are being used unknowingly, their mentality is in an ultra-net
world. These people believe that they are living a day to day life; however,
they are truly in a program created by the computers.
The
computers are dominant to humans; once the person lives up their life span and
dies they are ‘flushed down’ in to the sewers. In the movie, there is a
rebellion group of people that were able to get out of the program and escape the
computers. These people fight back towards the computers with computer
technology. Which I find a bit ironic because they are trying to fight the
computers/machine with computers. Fight fire with fire?
The
rebellion group waits around for the “one” (also known as Nio) who will defeat
the computers and help man-kind. Nio realizes he is the ‘one’ and kicks some
computer butt. The Matrix must have made people think, “what if we really are
in the Matrix now?” It must have created a large scare to the public that one
day (or even now) the matrix is going to happen or is happening.
In
a way I do find it ridicules that man-kind would let computers go that out of
hand. However, it is not unlikely for that to happen. We could be creating a
better future that may just turn ugly. Computers will never have the ability to
feel what a human can feel. They will never need to have to make an unreasonable
choice. However, that is what science is trying to do. Create something that
can relate to us; make something humanistic but with more possibility’s than
human. I believe, to a point, that this
is wrong. Why create something humanistic when humans are everywhere…People
will always have flaws, but why replace them with a program?
In your comment about people being into the matrix you should had written specified that people's brain is the thing that's loaded into the program through those tubes, then about you mentioning people were fighting the computers, I actually the impression maybe I'm wrong that this group of people were fighting those mechanical monsters that breached into the ship later on.
ReplyDeleteFinally I believe the issue is not whether computers will evolve to turn against us, to me the issue is how technology can be used to spy on people the more gadgets we have the more interference secret agencies can have on our lives.
People are the ones who control the technology. If we create it than we must use it correctly or whats the sense of even doing it.
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