Comparison Between 'Airframe And The Movie The Matrix'

We have been so invested in technology in the past few years, that we have begun to let technology control the way we live our life. Whether it may be just using technology to find the closest coffee shop or flying on an airplane, we have been letting technology take over our everyday life. Schools, once a place to learn using textbooks and paper, has turned into a technology based learning atmosphere. Dont make it a question. The novel “Airframe” and the movie “The Matrix” symbolizes the problems. In the novel “Airframe” and the movie “The Matrix”, technology is at fault and in these societies, humans rely on technology and depend on it heavily. Technological devices have been evolving rapidly in the past few years and will hinder us in the
However, in the past few years texting has become commonplace for any type of long distance communication because of it being quick and reliable. As of June, of 2014, 561 billion text messages have been sent globally, and by the end of 2011, people in the United States have sent upwards of 18.7 billion texts. (How Many Texts do People Send Every day?, Kenneth Burke) This number is drastically rising while conversing face to face is becoming more scarce by the day. This may decrease significantly overtime because of technology; more and more messaging applications have been invented to allow ease of access for people with or without phones. At the start of The Matrix, Neo is a computer hacker who is trying to solve the mystery of the Matrix, while trying to carry on his usually job. At this point Neo isn’t very social and keeps to himself, he begins to change once he is contacted by Trinity, later on in the movie. “Weed-like cables coil everywhere, duct-taped into thickets that wind up and around the legs of several desks. Tabletops are filled with cannibalized equipment that lay open like an autopsied corpse. At the center of this technological rat-nest is NEO, a man who knows more about living inside a computer than outside one.” (The Matrix) In this description of Neo’s room, it shows that he has not done much other than using his computer. This shows how
Since machines don’t have the intelligence and the thought process as a human. We have been relying on technology to do many things, but will we use the most powerful technology that humans no question Our brains. Our brains are more powerful than any computer that we could make, since our brain is able to process information, and can allow us to do whatever technology lets us