Lecture 9: Virtual world

In another interesting elcture we discussed the virtual world versus the real world. Questions were posed about where are we able to draw the line of what is real and what is not. Communication has changed so much in the past centuries, beginning where Aristotal and Plato first identified what was communication. They said it was an exchange of words from one person to the next, information being transported between two people. Now with Technologies the way ot is today with so many virtual world existing, communiaction is no longer just between two people passing on one message. Communication of information is now passing a message onto hundreds of people in one attempt. The virtual world has allowed the real world to be expressed faster and more effectively making the line hard to be defined.

We discussed the films that increasingly base their stories on the future, predicting what it will be like once technology becomes smarter than us. A world run by machines is not far reaching for the world today becasue as it is we dictate most of our everyday lives with the use of computers and machines in one form of another; we rely on them. This is the true reality that we need to face and question whether we want the ideas from the movies of how the future will be to become a reality, where we lose all control of the way we live our lives and are soon so reliant and dictated by technology and it's virtual worlds, forgetting who the human race is really. This is a troubling thought that I presume will get more exposure adn research as technology continues to grow. Will we refer back to Plato's cave in 100 years from now and understand the meaning of his theory?

So much to think about that it almost seems so uncomprehensible to do so.