What technology holds us for future?

Last few days, I have been trying to kill my boredom with movies. To my coincidence, the movies spoke the same thing that I had been thinking of lately; the future with technology. We are so depended on technology now, what will it be like after decades with much more powerful technologies? Will we rule over them or vice versa?

At present, I cannot imagine my day without my mobile phone. At work, I stay in front of my laptop. At home, I grab the remote control as soon my dad gets away for short break. I enjoy staying by side of these technologies. Even during get-together and outing with friends, the first thing everyone does is update their status. You cannot help but fall in love or maybe be parasitic with these technologies. They inform you, teach you, connect you, interact and even manipulate you but they never let you feel alone. They are always there when rest of the world is busy with their stuffs.

But have we ever thought how far will we go with technologies?

In the movie I watched last time, Her, directed by Spike Jonze, is a lovestory about Theodore (played by Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with its Operating System (voiced by Scarlett Johanson). He is in the technological sophisticated future where people don’t use their hands to type on the keyboard. They instruct the computers. Theodore works in a beautifulhandwrittenletters.com where he dictates to write a beautiful expressive handwritten letters for his clients. Due to his ongoing divorce, he is stressed and unhappy about his life until he installs a new Operating System in his computer linked to a smart phone handset with earpiece. He chooses a woman’s voice for this OS. The installed Artificial intelligence is interactive, friendly and even provides suggestions. She makes his life fun and organized. And then, they fall in love.

But as it is a technology and keeps on updating, their relationship comes to an end. Contrasting to this utopian science fiction, Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and adapted from the novel by PD Jones, is a thrilling nightmare future. For 18 years, no child is born. Human beings have been infertile for two decades due to the pollution. The last functioning nation, Britain is attracted by immigrants around the world but the military rule detains the immigrants leading to warfare nation. Amid this chaos, Theo (Clive Owen) comes across a pregnant girl. He puts up his life in saving this girl and the only baby girl she gives birth to.

The other one was an interesting science fiction animation, Wall-E. Human life has been lost from earth thousands of years ago. Few of them are living in a spaceship in orbit. The only creature on Earth is a solar-powered robot, Wall-E, that piles up dirt to stack as skyscrapers. Humans’ living in spaceship returns back to earth when they find a small plant growing that was found and saved by Wall-E.

All these science fictions provide a hint on future with technologies in different and interesting ways. The three movies had different stories linked with different futuristic realities. But the theme was same. Where and what will be to humanity with technological advancements? Will it have positive or negative impact? And to what extent? 

Today, we cannot live without it. We have smartphones to guide us through. We need to use our brain lesser. It cannot be denied that they are better than us (keeping aside the emotional intelligence).They are much more efficient and the time when they will start speaking our thoughts is not far. And at that time, will they be like the Operating System of Her that we will fall for? or the over experimentation of genes and hormones will make us infertile like in Children of Men or will it really lead to extinction of life from Earth like Wall-E? I wonder!