005 Research: Virtual example - Tron

Before moving on to the strategy "Distributed", I mentioned briefly in the discussion that the movie "Tron" creates a good example of mashing the 2 ideas of "Virtual" mentioned in the entry before this, between "technology" and the "human brain".

The movie is about an adventure set in a digital world that was created by the expertise of the human mind. It tells the story of a young man who is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father. His father was a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When he investigates a strange signal sent from his father's old arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where his father has actually been trapped for 20 years. This embark on a life-or-death journey across a universe created by his father. It is a universe that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape, in addition to wanting to take over the digital realm that the young man's father had created but wanted to destroy.

It is simply an amalgamation of a tangible world that we human know it as with a non-tangible that we human wish to have. This creates an almost complexed form of "virtual" that tries to coalesce the two worlds into one. Then again, it may be that I've watched too many movies, or I am more nostalgic about a movie that first came out in 1987 when I was only 3. It's quite a stress reliever if you remove the complexities away from the movie.

~ H