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Movies vs. Reality

I am currently watching one of the movies in the home alone series, and the house in this movie is more technologically advanced than any house I have ever seen in my life. So, as I was watching it, I was wondering how acurate this technological portrayel really was. In this movie, everything in the house is controlled by a voice activated remote. The remote can turn the alarms off or on, turn fireplaces off and on, open and close doors, and many other things. It is a really neat concept, but how safe is this house? So of course, in all the home alone movies there is a kid trapped in the house by himself and burglers break in with the intention of stealing something. With this house, if the burgler were to gain access to one of the remotes, which they do, then they have access to anything in the house. This makes the house very unsafe. If it were limited to whose voice could control the remote, then the house would be more secure.

Is this what is in store for our technological future? In some aspects, this technological mansion is very unrealistic. Hollywood often portrays technological evolution in a slightly far-fetched manner. At the end of the movie, when everything turns out okay, the little boy uses the remote control to make it snow outside. I don't think we will, or should, ever get to a point where technology can completely control weather. I think in certain cases technology evolving detrimentally affects our society. If we are at a stage in our life where we are too lazy to open the door without a voice activated remote control, then we are succeptable to numerous occurances that are not beneficial to our lifestyle.

Posted at 01:36PM Dec 06, 2008 by Megan Szakasits in General  |  Comments[1]