Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Living in the Matrix
I was reading several articles on how computers are exceptionally useful in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I then read the article "Using Social Media for Gospel Purposes" by Heather Whittle Wrigle. There is a small section in the article about the dangers of social interaction on the computer. A 52-year-old man would spend several hours a week on the computer as his cyber-self and interact with his virtual wife who lives in Canada. This left his real wife heartbroken. The fact that this really happens scares me. It reminds me of the movie "The Matrix." I don't believe that computers are literally going to develop independent minds and take over the world, but if people let virtual worlds become a major part of who they are, it's almost like computers are taking over the world. People would be letting themselves be held captive in virtual worlds.
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I like your Matrix analogy. People are becoming more involved in the virtual reality of the Internet and losing touch with what is real.
ReplyDeleteI like your Matrix analogy, too. I don't mind if I join in the virtual reality where shows the Book Of Mormon world including my heroes, Nephi, Moroni, Alma, etc. Yes, we should be careful with the virtual reality that we can be addicted with and get to think virtual worlds are same as our real worlds. A teenager violated a woman with knives or something because he thought he could do that in real world as well as virtual world from video games. It's just horrible.
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