Module 11

                The movie I watched for this assignment is the Matrix, this film is about people who created an artificial intelligence. Which in turn creates more robots and eventually leads to war, computers vs humans. At the time most of the computers ran on solar power, in an attempt to defeat the robots the humans darkened the sky. The computers came up with another idea. To use the energy from the human body. The artificial intelligence began to grow humans. While they would do this they would entertain the mind of these people by putting their thoughts and self-views into a digital world. That’s the computer side of the movie the rest is that some of the people were able to wake up and are fighting against the machines, and the main character is supposed to be able to save the world.

            The characters in the movie are able to jump in and out of the program world. They are able to see what the machines are doing. The technological side of this movie is like so many others we build a software that eventually can think for itself and doesn’t need people to run it. As to whether this is possible. Sure it could be. I don’t know as far as programming and designing a computer that thinks for its self. I am sure that people that people will attempt to do such things as to whether it happens or not only time will tell. This does seem to be common theme in movies that the human race invents the innovative computer and it begins to take over. I don’t know how you could teach a computer greed or love or hate. I do know that we are always moving forward.

            Also think about video games, you always hear that the next generation of video games are going to be software and hardware that put you into the game and give you that virtual world experience. If there ever was a machine take over isn’t that side of it possible.

            I don’t understand either what you would do with a computer that could think for itself why would anyone need it too? Maybe at some point in the future maybe there is a use for it. I have always wondered, are we ever done with inventing things? Are we ever just satisfied with everything that has been created? Or do we just keep pushing forward and hope we never create something that the world isn’t ready for.

            It is also interesting to think about if computers can talk and think, how much social skills will decrease. If people don’t actually have to leave the house to go and do things or to get information what will happen to us? Even now just with texting, or games on phones how often you see people only paying attention to the phone. Now what if you could talk to your phone and it could talk back. Would you still even talk to people?

            As far as culture issues, will there even be any more culture you could have a computer do everything for you. How much will culture stay intact? I can’t help but to think of the movie Walle, where everyone just has there hover carts and no one walks anymore and you just wonder what the point is.

            It is also interesting that we never think of the positives of all this technology we could have machines do jobs that are life threatening. Machines could world longer periods of time. We never hear about the good that can come from all of this technology.