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With the abundance of technology at our disposal today, we are becoming increasingly interconnected with the technology we have created. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, and iPods are common pieces of technology that we all know about, and we likely own some of it as well. With the growth of the Internet and the rapid overall growth in the tech industry, there may in fact come a day when we cannot function or live without our technology. This is an idea from Vannevar Bush in his article “As We May Think”.
An example of this idea in popular culture is the image from the movie “The Matrix”, along with a video clip, of the “raining code” that makes up our virtual reality. In the movie, machines use humans for their energy, essentially harvesting them, and create a virtual world for the humans made entirely out of code. This code makes up the environment, other people, buildings, and everything else in this fake world. This raining code is seen in what is called the “dream scene” in the movie, where we see the code falling down the screen and represents all information from the virtual world including visual and audio information.
This picture and video clip support Ted Nelson’s theory that all existing information will someday become computerized code as shown in the Matrix. The raining code shows that technology is a continuous stream that is constantly changing, and slowly consuming us. Both Bush and Nelson reflect this idea as well: That a day may come when a world that is similar to that of the Matrix becomes a reality and our technology becomes more powerful than us.