Ready Player One

We currently live in an age where technology is slowly taking possession of our homes. Something that I seem really sad is to see families reunited, and that each member is looking at his cell without setting any conversation. I dare say that technology improved the communication but, got worse quality.

I do not consider that evade the reality is a good choice, sooner or later we have to face our problems and doing so gives us maturity and growth as a human beings. I know that many people use this kind of thing because it helps them get ahead, for example, of a strong depression, but in my opinion I think that for everything there is a balance to avoid falling in excesses.

We can compare Oasis with the social network Facebook, for example many people publish a lot of nonsense things, or worse even, making public everything that they do (to where they leave, what they are eating, what bought, etc.) without seize the opportunity to enjoy their activities. Now the problem is that many people hide behind a computer and displayed through it as something they're not or worse even, looking for acceptance of people through likes.

It's interesting how most futuristic novels narrate a world desolate, where everything is dead and there is no hope for humans. I do not know if this is a coincidence, or if indeed we are leading the world to a similar situation, from my point of view I think we are not far away from becoming in a society like that show us some books.

Of course it is possible to have a world like Oasis, augmented reality is something in which many experts are working, and the technology is progressing ever more quickly, so we should not doubt that in the future we will have access to our own Oasis.

War Games

This movie seemed to me so impressive, firstly as a child can have as many skills being so small. Secondly what could have caused this child to use their skills.

At first it may sound funny the issue of that one boy has confused a program of a military station with a video game (given the violence in video games, any other would have confused too), but once you thought about the damage that he may cause , the situation leaves to be so funny.

What I learned from this movie is that you have to protect things that are important for you and are within your computer, as you never know who could prowl around. Of course that we do not have programs to launch nuclear bombs or something like that, but I imagine that if someone hates me, can get into my computer and erase my final class project Software Architecture. Of course my teacher would not believe me, and would jeopardize my grade.

Retaking the matter, I believe that security is something we can not put aside. Those who are taking the computer forensics topic, we can get an idea of the information that we can access within a computer.

Although the film is somewhat old, I allowed myself to make a comparison with children of this age. I sincerely believe that children of today have great potential to exploit, but the problem is that this potential is misdirected. If schools put more emphasis on quality education where children have access to other activities that help them at channeling that knowledge, we would have a very promising future.

Taking what happened on the positive side, was good that the attacker was a child and thanks to this, the military could find vulnerabilities in your system that they not believed have. If it had been a terrorist they would not have had the same opportunity.