2.0 - GHOST IN MACHINES

2.0 - GHOST IN MACHINES

The theory of “GHOST IN MACHINES” was heard when I saw the movie I,ROBOT which  is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. Since then when I thinks about automation theories, the same concept worries me a lot. Humans as we know were always caring about there comfort, many technologies we speak about was made to satisfy and improve the human comfort. The so called emerging technologies which are said as the future, are focusing upon the fact to reduce human work and effort. It actually is good, but the question is up to what limit, upon what limit we should use this. The movie 2.0 points to the same direction.

This movie, directed by S.Shankar is purely a science fiction film. The movie introduces a situation showing how human made technologies and how human comfort zone are affecting our echo system. We know that humans are not the only living species on the surface of earth and we just one among millions of species which take birth and die hear on earth like humans. Irrespective of size, shape, and many other features we are all mere actors as mentioned by Shakespeare, that whole world is a stage and we all are mere actors having specified entry and exit. So as a noble creature we all are bound to leave the stage as it is and definitely not to destroy or to harm any other player in that stage.

The movie shows how the development of mobile communication system and associated frequency network has disrupted the population and healthy lives of different birds. Due to the rising mobile networks in the land birds are finding very much difficulty to find food, to recognize there migration path and even this frequency waves are making them to lose there sense and die in vein. The movie is all about a man “PAKSHIRAJA” who is very keen in protecting these birds. Though he made a lot of attempts in making the people aware about the problems caused to the birds and how that could affect human race, no one seems to care what he speaks and everyone was very much interested in using mobile networks. The People, Service providers, Officials, Academicians, Government, Judiciary, everyone ignored his finding and continued with there works. And so the birds continued to die. Pakshiraja committed suicide by hanging himself on a newly built mobile network tower due to his helplessness.

In the movie the pakshiraja’s soul rose as a negative energy and along with all the souls of other dead birds, he became a huge negative energy. He used the same negative energy to take his revenge upon the mobile phone users and show his anger. With an unknown theory pakshraja’s soul managed to reach all the mobile phones in the city and use the same mobile radiation to kill the people. Then the movie is focused how to destroy this energy and make the people safe. The movie houses concepts related to artificial intelligence and all.

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MN. Chandramangalam