Blog set 6 Computers and Virtual Reality

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?