Monday, May 12, 2014

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?

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