Saturday, March 5, 2011
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a movie about the Making of Personal Computer. It is a made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke which documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft. The film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.
Reflection:
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a nice movie wherein we see how personal computer rise from two of most powerful company, and along the way, we are shown how deeply power and wealth corrupts. The movie really gives me an insight of a true technology revolution, taking the computers out of the hands of corporate types, and giving them over to the people to use. The film is more focus to Steven Jobs not to all pioneers of the computer industry specially to Bill Gates which I think contributed much of what we are using today.
The film is about how people lives and interacts in a society that are controlled by humanoid robots (surrogates) - fit, good-looking and a physically perfect mechanical representation of themselves. The movie is also about the two FBI agents trying to figure out how the users of the robot surrogates are dying when their surrogates "die" and who is behind the murders.
Reflection:
In the movie, however, it takes the psychology to the next level where people are not interested anymore in being who they are but a more perfected version of themselves: younger, in-shape, adorned with super-human strength and abilities. Actually, I really don't like the idea of letting the robots do what a human must do. Robots being programmed to be intelligent is completely different from a robot being programmed to learn. Human must not rely on what robots can do for them because in the end, their lifestyle gets affected. We must not let the robots take over our job as human because we might lose the chance of enjoying the life given and forget our purpose why we are created in this world.
Eagle eye is techno action thriller movie. There is a lot of technology involved. The main character (LeBouf) has been "targeted," and has the FBI and the SWAT team come after him. He keeps getting phone calls from a unknown caller, that tells him exactly where to go in order to avoid being caught, and eventually decides to go ahead and listen. He finds out that a Super Computer is telling him where to go, and what to do. It monitors his every move, and can control all electronics.
Reflection:
Eagle Eye is one of the techie movie I've watched and it is a exciting film. Throughout the movie I constantly had to think what might be happen next and what the movie was leading up to.The power of technology really manipulates everything. The movie simply illustrates how computers control humans based on what is gathered and monitored.
Based on the movie, there are three laws that govern all robots.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
Reflection:
I thought the story could have been stronger and better explained, but the look of the film, combined with the action, humor and CGI effects made the movie quite entertaining. The last part of the film attempts to explore the three laws of robotics in more detail. The film also has something to say about the spread of technology and the interaction between man and robots. The movie just made me realize that robots are harmful when they enter humans life. They have the potential to take over the world. I really don't want to live in a world where everyone has there own personal robot. We would be come lazy and rely on robots to do everything for us.
WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class)
Earth was abandoned centuries due to excessive waste. To clean up our planet, hundreds of Wall-E robots were sent to Earth to clear up the mess we left. But after a long period of time all the robots have been destroyed and only one Wall E robot remains. Wall-E is a robot designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He eventually falls in love with another robot named EVE, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity.
Reflection:
Technology has taken over the world, to the extent that humans are so reliant on it that they don't speak,interact, move, without the help of a computer. The movie gives a realization that too much dependency to the machines is not good. I cant imagine myself living in the future with less work and more dependent to the technology in order to survive. The moral of the story is that us humans should take care and save the Earth because it provides us all the things we need in our daily life.