This story was interesting
with all the hacker language being used and its view on everything. So as I got
from the story was that two war veterans became hackers, and they were good at
it. They intended to take Chrome down, but were scared of the mob that it was
connected to. This story was a little hard to understand at first with all the
technology lingo they use but towards the middle when they meet Rikki, it
starts to show what’s going on. Bobby is basically obsessed with this matrix
world they are always working in but he has his down falls and the only way up
for him is falling for someone new to be his luck. Towards the end they get to
their goal of “icing” chrome and becoming rich even though it never was for the
money, I think it became about the love triangle that neither of them could
admit to. There was a price for Rikki to get the eyes she always wanted but
that would be 3 hours of something to never happen or be spoken of again. In the
end all three are alone again and even with Jack and Bobby being rich, they
just wanted the girl in the end.
Reading this story “Computer
Friendly,” by Eileen Gunn, was a very good one. It was intriguing to find out
what they were doing this to these children and why. I found it to be
horrifying when they were going to euthanize children who did not pass the personality
test as they wanted them to, as if a child with some character is
dangerous.Elizabeth wanting to help her
friends out was an amazing thing to see, to have been so brave to journey into
dangerous territory where she could be caught and never questioned or seen
again. Towards the end I really liked how even Elizabeth wanted to be with her
friends and her dog and not want to be different from them. It is a weird place
that you have a child that must take tests just to show how influential and intelligent
they are to show that they deserve to be a part of this society in which I feel
they are all slaves to computer systems. Imagine as the dad who leaves work
gets his memory wipedfrom what he was
doing at work and it takes time to remember who he is all you receive back from
your memories are the important parts. The question I have is what they are
really hiding, that they must erase your memory every day from work?
I was wondering why they had to continuously swipe his mind whenever he left the office too! How is he totally okay with it? I personally do not ever want someone having that control over me and my thoughts or knowledge. It reminded me of clearing your history on your search bar on the computer and people usually only do that when they have something they want to hide so..... This whole story was alarming and everyone seemed delusional except the three seven year olds.
This story was interesting
with all the hacker language being used and its view on everything. So as I got
from the story was that two war veterans became hackers, and they were good at
it. They intended to take Chrome down, but were scared of the mob that it was
connected to. This story was a little hard to understand at first with all the
technology lingo they use but towards the middle when they meet Rikki, it
starts to show what’s going on. Bobby is basically obsessed with this matrix
world they are always working in but he has his down falls and the only way up
for him is falling for someone new to be his luck. Towards the end they get to
their goal of “icing” chrome and becoming rich even though it never was for the
money, I think it became about the love triangle that neither of them could
admit to. There was a price for Rikki to get the eyes she always wanted but
that would be 3 hours of something to never happen or be spoken of again. In the
end all three are alone again and even with Jack and Bobby being rich, they
just wanted the girl in the end.
Reading this story “Computer
Friendly,” by Eileen Gunn, was a very good one. It was intriguing to find out
what they were doing this to these children and why. I found it to be
horrifying when they were going to euthanize children who did not pass the personality
test as they wanted them to, as if a child with some character is
dangerous. Elizabeth wanting to help her
friends out was an amazing thing to see, to have been so brave to journey into
dangerous territory where she could be caught and never questioned or seen
again. Towards the end I really liked how even Elizabeth wanted to be with her
friends and her dog and not want to be different from them. It is a weird place
that you have a child that must take tests just to show how influential and intelligent
they are to show that they deserve to be a part of this society in which I feel
they are all slaves to computer systems. Imagine as the dad who leaves work
gets his memory wiped from what he was
doing at work and it takes time to remember who he is all you receive back from
your memories are the important parts. The question I have is what they are
really hiding, that they must erase your memory every day from work?
I was wondering why they had to continuously swipe his mind whenever he left the office too! How is he totally okay with it? I personally do not ever want someone having that control over me and my thoughts or knowledge. It reminded me of clearing your history on your search bar on the computer and people usually only do that when they have something they want to hide so..... This whole story was alarming and everyone seemed delusional except the three seven year olds.
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