The dark reality of black technology

Karelle 2022-04-23 07:03:13

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Three short stories that tell people's own problems in the cloak of technology
revolve around themes such as "consciousness" and "communication", as well as "copy of consciousness" and "reality shielding", which make us feel afraid of increasingly intelligent technology Worry, a little heavy.
Everyone in the film has a "smart eye" that looks like a high-tech Google glass, can share the picture in front of others with others, can shoot, can zoom in on the picture, etc.
Such convenient technology also produces the first story: the No. 1 male in the film. The Lord sees everything that the other party can see through the "smart eye", and guides and helps people with low emotional intelligence to get along with their favorite objects.
The guidance given by a bunch of people did make the client successful in dating a girl, but the man's every move was fake.
At the same time, the director here secretly expressed his desire for freedom of speech and his resistance to the government's excessive regulations to control things, so he arranged for a neurotic woman who wanted to escape from other people's guidance and killed the client man.
The law stipulates that it is illegal for such a "social mentor" to spy on other people's behavior, and a murder just happened, so the No. 1 man was arrested
. Career Beginning: He is a staff member responsible for initiating (taming) the intelligence service of the copy of consciousness.
In the film, a beautiful woman receiving treatment wakes up and is told that she is an extracted copy of consciousness and needs to complete the butler service for the ontology who understands the needs of "self" best.
The copy of consciousness involved here is a consciousness that is completely equivalent to the original consciousness except that it has no body. So totally feel yourself. But when she experienced the life of being alone and imprisoned, she was tamed after she collapsed but could not delete her own data. Until the death of her body, she could only take care of her body needs in a closed space. !
+ After the story was told, the silent No. 2 man also told his own story after showing pity for the beauty of the copy of consciousness: In a society that can "reality shield" others anytime and anywhere, he found out that the female ticket was pregnant, but After arguing about the news that she was not ready to give birth, she was "reacted" by the female vote until she died unexpectedly. No matter how the infatuated man was rescued, or how he silently followed the female vote after learning of the birth of the child, he could not get it again. connect. Since the descendants associated with "reality shielding" can only see the influence of mosaics, it was not until the accidental death of the girl that he finally saw the appearance of the child, and only then did he know that the child was the product of the girl and her colleague cheating. He killed him by mistake during an argument with the "ex-father-in-law" who could still be contacted, and also indirectly implicated the child who went out to find rescue.
The three stories, in the end, are actually all the routines that the No. 1 male protagonist needs to talk about in the No. 2 male protagonist's consciousness copy in order to revoke the previous crime and return to freedom. So in the end, as punishment, the second male protagonist was convicted, and the copy of consciousness was maliciously corrupted by the police, staying in the house forever. And the male protagonist of Niubi No. 1 was also "shielded from reality" by everyone and became an exile in the world.
The "copy of consciousness" and "reality shielding" and the black technology of "smart eye" in the whole film are actually a big step in the sublimation of reality skills. What is particularly emotional is the black technology of "reality shielding", just like the behavior of blocking the Cold War whenever there is a dispute in reality, which makes people panic. The problem is always there, and the way to escape the problem will never solve the problem.
As for cloning technology, if it is true that even consciousness can be copied, it is a bit scary to watch the consciousness in the film turn from a hoarse voice to a puppet.
Although Black Mirror's subject matter is getting poorer and poorer, it may not be able to maintain the level of the opening, but many episodes have made me gasp. Because it happened not far away from us.

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White Christmas quotes

  • Harry: Ultimately the only thing you're worried about is the transition from one state to another, and that can't hurt you because it's it's just a state change.

  • Matt: It wasn't really real, so it wasn't really barbaric.

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    Matt: She's only made of code, she's not real. Fuck her!