Comparing Ender's Game And The Matrix

In the Ender’s Game and the movie The Matrix, the society that they are living in have their entire lives revolved around technology to a point where it has become uncontrollable and has more negative impacts than positive ones. Both protagonists, Ender and Neo, are in a society where technology is drowning them. Respectable programmer and hacker in the year 2171, Neo, is faced with the task to challenge the AI (artificial intelligence) technology who is holding his society’s feeling in their captivity. The further Neo tries to fight, the more flaws he finds about technology. From being a tech-savvy person himself, he is supposedly “the one” to free his society from the dangers and captivity of technology. As for Ender, he too relies extensively

By integrating technology into our everyday activities such as transportation, paying our bills our any other activities such as these, we are creating a greater risk. Any item or activity we try to integrate technology into, now has the very same problems and weaknesses that a computer has. This includes viruses, vulnerability to hackers, data loss, corrupted files and the list goes on. But why would we use these tools when we already know their flaws. This is because marketers lead us into a false sense of security, by making us believe that there upgrades to everyday activities have innovative and protective features such as a fingerprint scanner. When in reality all they have really done is created a new door available for hackers. In the movie, The Matrix, Neo and his team of hackers, use the matrix’s one and only flaw which is its susceptibility to be hacked. Just like one of the hackers had said, “It’s like hacking a computer. All it takes is time”, (The Matrix). By relying on technology to give us security, all we are really doing is buying us time. Some other examples of humans relying on technology to give privacy includes online banking and documentation of confidential files. This would not have been a major problem if hackers didn’t exist or hard copies of confidential information were stored and locked away rather than being encrypted on a

Before technology was vastly used by the general public, you would have to write letters to communicate with other or we would have to rely on ourselves to solve a math equation. But, now our first instinct, whenever we are asked a question is to pull out our calculators and plug the numbers in. This is now the new reality we live in, a reality where humans have become lazy and overly dependent on technology to do our hard work. “I think the Matrix can be more real than this world. I mean, all I do is pull a plug here. But there, you have to watch a man die… They're going to reinsert my body. I'll go back to sleep and when I wake up, I'll be fat and rich and I won't remember a goddamned thing. It's the American dream.”(The Matrix). In The Matrix, Cypher believes that the world he lives in is not real, but rather the world that created by the matrix is. He lets technology perceive his reality solely on the fact that his life would be much better in the matrix. The main protagonist from Ender’s Game, Ender, was also not able to identify that he was actually killing aliens in reality when he perceived it all to be virtual reality. “He could never have been fooled the way Ender was into thinking he was playing a game. For Peter, the only game worth playing was the real world. The only