Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Old Paint
I found Old Paint to be a great story in regards to representing the past and present, and perhaps a warning to the future. I could not help but get a sense that this story served not only as a science fiction story, but as a warning against becoming too technologically advanced, as do many stories. The way that the car travelled to all of the mom's places that she travelled as a teenager brought back the "good times" for her, suggesting that perhaps those times were better for all. Furthermore, the way in which all of the cars went wild fits well with the theme of things going wrong in a technologically advanced world. This leads me to believe that maybe the moral is to not fix something that is not broken, and perhaps not everything must be renovated or updated to fit the present standards.
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I think one of the most interesting things about the story is the hackers, and their reason for basically infecting the entire transportation system was "To prove we could." I think the message from this is that the problem with the "Cloud" is that a completely Cloud-covered world is one very susceptible to meltdown if the wrong hands can infiltrate it.
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