"The Circle" (The Circle) is a movie starring British actress Emma Watson and American powerful actor Tom Hanks. It tells about the social tragedy caused by "social transparency" and the thinking about the relationship between the Internet and ethics when the capabilities of Internet companies are getting bigger and bigger, even surpassing the government.
The hostess was originally an after-sales service operator for a water company, and her best friend worked for the Internet giant The Circle. By chance, the female protagonist successfully entered the company and was very fortunate to become the first circle user in the world to show "social transparency"-except for going to the toilet, sleeping and bathing, all her life will be broadcast live around the world 24 hours a day , People of different languages interacted with her on the Internet and put them around her in the form of holographic scarlet letters.
Although girlfriends became more and more haggard due to high-intensity work, the hostess gradually became a professional speaker, standing on the high podium wearing the most familiar knitwear and jeans in the IT industry, unswervingly preaching the circle Corporate culture and the latest products.
Circle is beneficial to the society, the latest soul tracking system can locate the escaped criminals globally within 20 minutes. When this function was requested by the CEO of circle to apply to ordinary people, the situation began to get out of control. The heroine's Fa Xiao is an introverted boy who has become the civilian target. Under the dual tracking of the two drones, the boy accidentally fell into the abyss while driving to avoid.
Social media's pervasiveness in privacy has caused many conflicts and even tragedies in reality. Human flesh search, privacy exposure, rumors and slander... Some people have to resist first. They have turned off the Moments function and replaced Weibo with ins that need to circumvent the wall. They would rather share their lives with strangers, but do not want to let people in the social circle see their privacy.
This is a passive protection, an escape from self-preservation. At this moment, the social network has evolved from icy data to a fiery tracker.
How to deal with the biopolitics of our era, the relationship between the body and the brain in this era, the relationship between humans and machines in this era, and the relationship between technology and society in this era are all worthy of in-depth explanation when discussing "post-life" topic.
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