Computers are going to take over, it's only a matter of time. How is digital media significant you ask? Well, what if one day we digitally design a world so realistic, that we cannot distinguish it from the world we really live in. This is where concepts like The Matrix come into play. The machines we create could one day become so intelligent and good at creating false realities, that they realize the power they have, and design a false world to trap us in... call me crazy, but it could happen. Anything is possible.
Creating digital media is good and dandy but will we stop ourselves when the time comes. Humankind's biggest weakness is also its biggest strength. We are able to advance so far and invent so much, we can probably even invent our own destruction. Who would have guessed that one tiny paintbrush could lead to so much. It hasn't happened yet, but it could. Imagine the day where we wake up and pick the world we want to see from a selection screen. You wake up one morning and say: "I want a pale coloured sky, I want to the the roads to have 45 degree gradients with contrasting colours and i want the design on my shirt to jump off the fabric and come to school with me."
I've always wanted a computer interface like the one Tony Stark has in Iron Man. Also his computer butler Jarvis who can do anything. I basically want to be Tony Stark, but that's another blog post.
Anyways, as I was saying, it might not be long before we create our own digital prison made up of bitmaps, vectors, and a whole mess of other things. Like a mime, we won't see the invisible box we're creating until its too late.
But who knows, maybe this is all just kooky talk.
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