Technology Depicted In Morpheus's The Matrix

With the passage of time, technology is taking over our lives and human beings are becoming increasingly dependent on it. As Morpheus, the fictional character from The Matrix eloquently puts it “It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” The inability to recall a friend’s contact information without the aid of our smartphone’s contact list is an innocuous example of human reliance on technology. However, this is indicative of a bigger problem. The dwindling emphasis on honing working memory and exercising basic mental skills, due to the easy accessibility of gadgets that can perform these tasks, impacts our learning and cognition.
Similarly, advancements in telecommunications have shriveled physical distance by enabling people on the opposite ends of the globe to interact instantaneously with each other. Ironically, these very developments have increased human isolation as they are used in lieu …show more content…
Even Cypher, part of the team, wants to go back to Matrix away from reality because reality requires struggle and will to face the truth. Like Cypher, humanity uses Social media as a crutch to avoid reality. People take photographs, edit them and post them online to portray the perfect version of themselves. This in itself is not problematic. However, it is worrisome that slowly humanity is beginning to believe that an endorsement of our projection of happiness by the masses is requisite for happiness and satisfaction. It has become imbedded in our minds that this is what we desire. So deeply buried are we in this virtual mesh of projected happiness and so comfortable, that the thought of having to break away from it and facing actual life, with all its complexities and complications, terrifies us. We have chosen unreal but easily achievable happiness over real but struggle-requiring one and are numbly content with our