Live-Tweeting 2

For the second half of this semester, we watched and live-tweeted the movies, Robot and Frank, Arrival, Alita: Battle Angel, Ready Player One and Don’t Look Up. The Tweets for these are embedded at the bottom of this post.

Coming into the second half of this semester, I started to sort of grasp the idea of Sci Fi movies and what they were all truly about, as I started in Live Tweeting 1, I am not a fan of these types of movies. Therefore, coming into the second half of the semester I felt a little more at ease, you could say, about the watching and live-tweeting of these movies. If I am being totally honest, I actually enjoyed the movies in the second half of the semester, besides Robot and Frank. I felt as though this movie was kind of dull. It was sad to watch and I felt like there wasn’t really much going on. In my opinion anyway.

Analysing these movies had me thinking about all aspects of the films. As I was watching these movies I would ask myself things like ‘how did they make that?’ ‘what is the origin of this?’ ‘has this been done before?’ ‘I wonder if other people thought this part of the movie was strange’ and so much more. The good thing about this subject is, that I could answer those questions and not feel like a total weirdo for looking into movies that deep. In fact, every movie I have watched since this subject I find myself analysing it.

Learning about futurists and how people do this for a living was insane to me. I found this video on futurist, Richard Watson, talking about the future of Energy, Health and AI.

Sci Fi movies not only are normally set in the future and predict the future but a lot of them are based around technology and robots. I think it is so interesting how when someone thinks of the future, their mind instantly relates the future to technology. We don’t think about what a shopping centre will look like or what colour trees would be, we stick to things related to technological advancements. Things like cars, laptops, phones and robots. One major theme that I have noticed that came about through each topic and each movie is this whole idea of what makes a robot different from a human. Especially if a robot is programmed to act and talk like a human. To me, it’s the human connection and emotion that stands out. Take away deep conversation and connecting to what you truly feel and what you truly believe in, that just … isn’t human.

The whole online space is a culture, a world of its own where really, if you think about it, there are no limits. It is the digital world and everything that comes with it. I can’t help but wonder, the inventors of the internet, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, did they know how important and how amazing their invention was? Tim Bernes-Lee then came in and invented the world wide web. There is no way they would’ve made it knowing that one day there will be people who can’t live without it and how much they truly changed the world. They changed the way we communicate all the way to the way we learn and pass our time and keep ourselves entertained for hours on end. They literally changed the way humans work and the way we live. The three of these men have a joint net worth of $28million. How can you even put a price on something as life changing as the internet?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-invented-the-internet – a good read on the invention of the internet

A topic I fell really deep into was Cyborgs. Of course I have heard of one before but to be honest I had never really known what they are and what they are all about and it is just so interesting. Hearing that we are all already cyborgs is like hearing your entire life has been a lie and that pigs can, in fact fly. All of these products that we spend hours using are all extensions of who we are. Media is a way to express our inner selves. Having these external ways to express ourselves and to extend who we are. Here is an article I found on the world’s most famous Cyborgs. An interesting read if you have the time.

https://medicalfuturist.com/the-worlds-most-famous-real-life-cyborgs/

As far as my live-tweeting summary goes, to be honest I feel like I am really bad at it. I struggle to interpret the weekly lectures and topics into the tweets. I do try my best though. I found myself getting too distracted by the movies. As I genuinely enjoyed watching them, and it was my first time watching all these movies, I was so engulfed in what was going on that at times I forgot I was doing work, and not just watching a movie. I guess this isn’t a bad problem to have though. Overall I find my tweets to be quite average, I feel as though I do not have the same knowledge as my peers which made me feel left behind a little.

Robot and Frank Tweets