@JaredAbrahamWSU
Some of us have a difficult time with technology. We try to enter our latest Facebook status, but somewhere between the typing and pressing post it somehow disappears without a trace. We dread the newest software update not knowing what is going to be changed on us. There are also some people who are never flustered by the latest and greatest from the text community. Embracing whatever the tech world can throw at them.
In the movie “The Matrix” there are two kinds of characters. There is the master of computers, Morpheus, and the guy who still can’t figure out how his alarm clock works. The master has the ability to see rows upon rows of ones and zeros and make complete sense out of it, knowing that there is a specific order within the Matrix. Meanwhile, the guy who perhaps is technologically less proficient at first is confused by these jumbled numbers, lost in the pattern.
In “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush, he talks about all of the benefits of technology, from improving his food to giving him an “increased knowledge of his biological process so that he has had a progressive freedom from disease and an increased span of life.” (Bush, pg 37) This was a main point in The Matrix, creating a fictional world where everything had order. However, Bush also states that as more technology is being created and more research is being done, we have a limit on what our brains can remember. (Bush, pg 37) We need order.
As new technology is being created many great discoveries will no doubt be made, diseases will be eradicated and food will be improved. However, with more technology saturation we could possibly be consumed in a world of technology waiting for the next update, and ignoring our human counterparts.