Scary Sci (Fi?)

Last night I watched Avatar. I thought the story was real good, and regret not seeing it in theaters because I've heard so much about the "stunning visuals" that everybody seemed to rave about. My only comment on the subject matter on that movie was that yeah, humans would be bad for trying to farm whatever that rock was for profit at the expense of that planet. If it were a matter of humans as a race fighting for survival, however, by all means, slash and burn. What actually struck me, though, was that this movie embodied the themes of a few other movies projected on this year's big screens. Planet 51 was an animated movie (I didn't see) about man's role as an alien, albeit not in the invasive sense seen in Avatar, on another planet. This concept of course isn't exactly original, but thought-provoking nonetheless. More interesting to me, was that Avatar in so many ways mirrored the themes of two other somewhat shitty movies of 2009: Surrogates and Gamer - both of which I watched. Intently. heh, jk. But seriously, what's with this whole idea of people jumping into a tanning bed or behind a display of monitors to control and manipulate another human(oid) for their own gains? Doesn't anyone else find this a little odd? Well, the truth is at hand. Technology is advancing at an alarming rate. People with little nubs in the place of full arms are now able to operate robotic prosthetics via nodes attached to their nub, and so forth. They're putting projectors on cell phones. Nano technology?! That's like freaking insane - imagine little robots injected into your body to terminate cancer. Or like in Gamer, take control of an inmate's brain functionality. They're developing biological computers. For all our sake, just Google some of this shit I'm spewing atcha. Furthermore, talk about life in outer space is growing more and more certain. When I say "they," I mean scientists, etc. Astrologists are upping their efforts to locate earth-like planets, or "exo-planets" to find life. And this whole search comes down to redefining "life as we know it." Fifty years ago we didn't know twat about life. Now we see it occurring in the harshest of conditions. Of course we're not talking "intelligent life ," but human steps looks like baby's sometimes. Cutting through my bullshitisms, what I'm trying to say is that some of the technology we see going down in these movies, on Nat Geo, or Discovery Channel, may be right around the corner. If a person can control a mechanical arm with their mind and through nerve endings-electro-whatevers, is it not only a matter of time before one human can actually transmit orders to another? And don't even get me started on stem cells. Hoo wee! That shit is wild turkey!