Her. The Future of Technology

So this past week our teacher showed us a film called "Her." This movie is about a man named Theodore and he is the main character in this Film. This man is going through a divorce and at the beginning of this film seems to be very sad, lonely, and really just seems like he is giving up on life and society. He ends up getting this thing called "OS" which is an Operating System. The reason this is OS is a perfect mate for Theodore in this point in his life was because he really just needed someone who would talk to him and get his mind off all the things he was going through. This OS listens to him, helps him organize his things, and gives him responses that he doesn't expect and makes him laugh. The OS gets him to get out and see the world how he once use to. The OS took him to a pier made him walk blind folded and just overall made him have a good time. The reason why this film is appropriate for our time is because of how attached our society is to their mobile devices. We lose so much human interactions to be by ourselves with our devices. If this filmed was shown about 20 to 50 years ago people would probably not expect it. It would have been something we would expect in a 100 years from then. The writer of this film shows how are people can be so isolated from human interactions because there always more focused on their devices rather than making conversations with real people. Theodore writes letters for other people and writes what the people feel and think. Honestly I would not want anybody to do that for me because no one can ever know how I truly feel, only I know how I feel. It just goes to show that people are going to get the point where we rely so much on technology to do everything for us. Its good that and cool that Theodore can communicate with this OS when he needs to but to constantly talk to all the time is a bit strange. I think this a bit too much technology for me and I wouldn't mind giving it a try but would not consider using it the way it is shown in this film. it's a possibility we may have something similar to this in the near future. Would you want this type of technology in your life reader?

The Veldt

I was assigned a reading from Ray Bradbury titled "The Veldt" it was about a family of four. The family consisted of a husband, wife, and two children a boy and a girl. This family lives in a very high tech house that literally can do everything for them. This house can cut their food and gets the ketchup and even tie their shoes. This home has a room called the nursery and what this room can do is virtually create anything that comes to your mind. It's literally a room that if you can think it and create it in your head it can come to life. The parents start noticing what the room is doing and they believe they are spoiling their kids too much and they came to a decision to shut the nursery down. So the parents decide to give a call to a psychologist to give them advice. Once the children find out what they parents are thinking of doing they get so furious and outraged that they lock their parents inside of the nursery and think of the unthinkable. They create a visual of the Veldt and of Lions and the parents are murdered by their own children.

This got me to think about technology and how its become so far advanced in our lifetime. Never would I think that someone could become so attached to some technology that they were willing to kill their own parents for it. Well maybe not that dramatic in real life. Although I have seen many children and teenagers throw serious tantrums when someone takes away their technology whether it be a cellphone, laptop, or tablet. I just hope that technology does not take us to a point where people are going to be killed over technology. 

Is Social Networking Messing With You?

Social Networking, do you happen to have one? Do you find it messing with your brain? Well the a freelance writer by the name of David Disalvo wrote, “Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?” Throughout this writing Disalvo writes on how social networking is changing the way people interact differently now because of social networking. Its starting to cause people to feel a sense of loneliness and how people react with they see certain images. Disalvo also talks about narcissism. Narcissist are people we can spot from a mile away always where ever they go they seek some sort of attention. Online they do the same thing by trying to have thousand and hundreds of friends on their online page. Disalvo also pointed out that adolescents and college students make over 40 percent of social networking. In my opinion it’s very true that the younger population makes up most of social networking because when I was in middle school i had social networking and so did all of my friends. Some may find that social networking can be manipulating and a waist of time but it all depends on really how you are using it. It’s good to have social networking to be able to keep up with close friends that we don't see on a daily basis or even someone you see around once a year. Don’t let social networking confuse you or make you feel lonely. Luckily I don’t feel any of these symptoms when using social networking. Reader do you feel that social networking is confusing you?