Do you ever think about your life? How it is? Where it is going? How and when it will end? How the choices you made in the past that got you where you are today? How sometimes it feels like it is out of your control and “someone” else is manipulating it? What if it was that way? Would it make you feel better to know that someone or something else made those mistakes on your life?
The Matrix series is a huge favorite because of its foundation is based on two things that I love; spirituality and technology. It delves into our fears of many things and levels and on being completely reliant to AI… artificial intelligence.
I remember when that movie came out. I was blown away. The names used were from mythology; the story line is based on our fears of nuclear holocaust yet it was not against another country but humanity versus technology that “ended” the world as we know in the movie.
After we watched the movie, my daughter and I went to a local coffee shop and talked about it for a couple hours. How much of our lives are intertwined with technology? How we take it all for granted. It seems our whole lives are meshed together and sometimes, it becomes like an extension of us.
I was sick recently with a cold so to keep myself in bed and resting, I decided to watch the whole series in a row since I have the movies and I had never done that. It was pretty intense to have your mind in that mode for over 6 ½ hours. I wrote a poem about it recently but it nags at me. The “what ifs?” The big one being, what if it is that way?
It made me think how reliant I am on technology. I can set my coffee maker to brew me a pot of coffee at a specific time every morning. When I walk into my kitchen, all I have to do is grab a cup and pour. I can set my crock pot to cook all day while I am at work so when I get home, all I have to do is grab a plate and scoop out a serving and eat.
I use my iPhone for everything from making my shopping list, banking (my bank app), playing games, reading emails and keeping in touch with my family and friends via text messages, phone calls or even the Facebook app. I get my daily Zen quote on my iPhone through an app. I am even writing this blog through an app and posting. The ways you can use that one device is astounding but we don’t think of it that way. It just is. It makes life convenient and simple. We can’t remember the day it took over our lives but now we realize we cannot live without it. It being technology.
It’s in our cars, works, schools, stores and in our homes. There is nothing we use that cannot be plugged into an electrical outlet because first and foremost, technology is reliant on electricity.
The downside to technology? Cutting of jobs because if a robot can do it, then why have people in the jobs? They are making cars we drive, they can make and bake the cookies in bulk, they can even do some simple surgeries to save our lives.
So now that it is in front of you, how reliant are you on technology and do you see that movie becoming reality, some day down the road?
It does make you think, does it not?
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