10 Films That Prove We Should Fear Technology
2. The Matrix
Right here. Its only a matter of time that our technology becomes so advanced it begins to improve upon itself. If Blade Runner showed how we may hope to maintain control over artificially intelligent beings, The Matrix shows us what happens when we lose our grip. Set close to the year 2199, humankind is locked in a deadly bid for survival against a race of machines. In order to maintain control over most of humanity, which is also harvested as their energy source, the machines have locked people inside the Matrix, a computer simulated dream world that gives people the impression they are living normal lives in the year 1999. When he is freed from this digital prison, computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) joins the resistance in an effort to save humanity. While virtual reality may not yet exist to the calibre shown in the film, one day the real world and a computer-generated one will be indistinguishable, and you could be confined to a digital prison without even knowing it.