"We are living in the Matrix."- explains Trinity
Carrie Ann Moss explains how we are living in the matrix on Huffpost Live.
An introspective on Tech Addiction
(The Matrix phenomenon)
Social media is the crack cocaine of the Internet. Technology is slowly driving us in to the vortex of the Matrix. Humans hooked upto machines is no distant dream. Virtual Reality is already here.
We are all victims of technology.
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy." - Morpheus
"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus
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I walk down the street sometimes and I literally think I am in the matrix as everyone’s on their phone and we’re all looking down and we’re all kind of not interacting with each other.When it comes to our children, she says we have to be awake…and protect them “from being lulled to sleep.”
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She then makes a disturbingly apt metaphor comparing the baby pods “charging” up the computers in the beginning of the movie to a world of children charging up smart technology only to not be there at all.“We’re all living our own little solitary lives,” she says. “Let’s talk to each other – let’s get real.”
“I’m addicted to my phone…we’re giving them to babies.” She didn't, but notices that people don’t even think twice about it and says it’s something we need to think through –
We don’t know the future implications of screen-addiction.
She wonders if tech-addiction will be the next “smoking” hindsight where smoking used to be no big deal. Moss believes the use of technology is the biggest source of contention between parents and children and says,We have to be awake, we have to be awake here and … protect them from being lulled to sleep by this idea that they are connected when they are totally not connected.
Access isn't the same as connection, she notes. She’s passionate about the subject.
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