DH Toto is a gadget crazy person. Back at home in India he would modify his bike into the latest crazy fashion and the same continues in The US of A too. So the saga continues with new mods to his BMW and he totally loves it.
From past one week, he wanted to watch Iron Man so we finally decided to watch it after dinner on a weekday. We arrived at the theatre a few mins before the show and to our surprise, the whole theatre was empty! However, ppl started flowing in just before the screening started, failing our hopes to enjoy a king style viewing.
"Iron-Man"As usual the movie is abt the hero becoming a superhero and how he avenges his captivitors and destroys the bad people. But the interesting part is how he realises that Weapons technology can be a bad impact on the world and how it destroys innocent people. So the Big Question is " Is technology good or bad?"I have been reading several examples on it, like the invention of fire or the use of a knife. We arent controlled by computers or robots yet, so thats fine as long as we use it in a good way. Humans have been waging wars, inventing atomic bombs, missiles and nuclear warfare and not the least biological warfare too but how much in this is for Good? (I am not a scientist but movies taught me some of these terminology). I had the opportunity to watch even "Charlie Wilsons War" over the weekend which was an interesting movie to watch with good casting. Eventually the movie shows that while military victory can be had but there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. There was a closing statement at the end of the movie which really caught my eye. "These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we f***** up the endgame."...
The bottomline is that technology is neither good or bad..its the ppl who use it or control it to be blamed. I guess this post is ironic because I'm using a computer, but that's my opinion. Let me know yours.
5 comments:
Hi, nice post and a very good thought..just came across ur blog through my friend Jaya's blog. it seems u r from boston, am too from boston. will keep looking at ur blog!..tc swathi.
sure swathi,thanks for your comment.
Will sure chek on urs too :-)
nice post, buddy. i saw both the movies n both r good in their own way. btw, if u r a movie buff, go watch "vantage point". i loved that movie
yes papa..its the people who use are to be blamed if a -ve factor comes out....science is there to help us construct and destruct...it is we who do it...i got stuck when i watched that I ROBOT and kept thinking wat if such a thing happens (:o)
Keep up the good work.
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