Module 11

A movie that sticks out to me when it comes to technology and computers is Eagle Eye. In this movie a young man and woman are put together to help fight against  technology. There is a mysterious phone call  and money that shows up in Jerry's (the main character) bank account. All of this sets him off and makes it so that they have to fight to figure out what is going on. There is a woman on the phone who helps him through all sorts of terrible events, and makes it so that he doesn't get caught by the FBI. Come to find out in the movie the whole basis is based around a computerized machine called "ARIIA", Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence  Integration Analyst, a device that is brother had been monitoring before his death. ARIIA is used to track all the movements of people and things and keeps records of everything. His brother starts to notice weird behavior about ARIIA but later dies and so Jerry is brought in to help stop ARIIA from thinking on her own and taking control over things. She is supposed to help prevent bloodshed, but doesn't function properly and ends up creating more problems and messes for the government. I think that this movie is realistic in the fact that obviously there are computers and machines that are able to gather information from all different networks and categorize them and keep record of them. It gets a little extreme when she starts acting in on her own and is able to "think" on her own and take over control, it becomes a mission for them to override her. She controls cameras around the city instead of them just filming how they are set up. I also think another absurd  part is when she can pick up conversations and record them simply from the vibrations of the person's coffee cup. I do think that computers play a huge role in our government and help them keep track of things and figure out some threats, but I don't think that we will ever actually let computers take over full control of determining threats without people being more involved then just sitting and watching.