Module 11

Jayden Nyman

IST 1100

Module 11

            I chose to watch the Matrix it has been quite some time since I last saw the movie and it is really good. I had a hard time finding it though with all the movie rental stores being shutdown because of the Redbox takeover. The movie consists of a dreamworld that is completely computer generated. And of course it is fictional because they use humans as a way to power the dreamworld. Its like the human is literally the power source, and the brain is what is powering the game. In the Matrix movie it states that there are rules that can be broken, this talking about computer systems. In our world I feel as if that statement is true, there are different rules and things that can be broken by very intelligent hackers. This is scary and I know that our identity is something that can be stolen and is a major concern in our society.

            It is almost like a game that we would play nowadays. How, or why? Well, because we would just put the game into the system and play it, but in the Matrix you put the human into the generator that allows the user to be sent into a computer generated dreamworld. This is crazy, I’ve always been a fan of science fiction movies and the Matrix is definitely one of the best I have seen.

            To talk a little bit about how the Matrix is fictional is quite easy. Can we dodge bullets and go into slow motion in our world? I would say no, but it would be pretty cool to be able to dodge a bullet. I know that the movie is fictional, but try to imagine a world where the Matrix was real. What would you do if you were in a computer generated dreamworld? In my opinion I would think it was cool, but at the same time it would be pretty scary. If I could be plugged into a machine and sent off to another life it would probably scare me, but then again if everyone else was doing it then I wouldn’t look at it the same way. If we had technology that advanced in our society it would be a life changer. No single job would be the same as it is today, and everyone would know the world as a completely different place.

            If our world turns into a brain powered dreamworld I would doubt it would be in our generation. I feel like something like that is so far away it seems ridiculous to even talk about, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t interesting because it definitely is. The Matrix is an awesome movie, one that I will watch many more times in my life.