The future, as a concept, is one of the most compelling ideas we have: the past can be reflected on, the present is before our eyes, but the future is where our hopes and dreams, as well as our fears and nightmares, reside. As it is imagined in science fiction, it is a world of […]
Category: Movies
Thoughts on “Tron”
Artificial intelligence is both a science and a dream: a set of algorithms and methods for developing systems, along with a set of ideas about the nature of intelligence to guide that development, and at the same time a vision of our future, in which our technology will no longer be limited to adding machines […]
Thoughts on “The Net”
Recently while looking through Netflix for something to watch I came across the 1995 action thriller The Net, starring Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett, a Software Analyst (an appellation that seems meant to convey technical competence without being too specific) who becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving the Federal Government, malware and floppy disks. While […]