More Hollywood attempts to confuse the shallow masses

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2016)

Anyone in the know that has even in the slightest done research on emergent tech for the last couple years knows full well the roads we are heading down. Especially with the tech crawl being just a small part of the overall nonsense and danger of it all.
Consumerism has most gassed up for whats branded as hot and new. Yet its all only slightly different from the previous model, and this kind of vapid demand for junk is exactly what was foretold decades before our modern times that leads to the advent of artificial intelligence and general bad time for us fleshies to say the least.
Whether a fan of Asimovs's writings or an true fan of The Matrix, the threat of over developed technology that appears too quickly on the scene for us to control it is not only an old, played out concept, but one that is all too realistic.
Even recently with vaunted know it alls like Steve Hawking denouncing the speed with which things are progressing, movies like Ex Machina keep coming out and failing to do true justice to convey the threat of advanced a.i. to most people.
The movie was too focused upon developing sympathy for the artificial girl made by a wealthy ground breaker whom was just too seemingly morally reprehensible and lousy with booze. SORRY. SPOILER alert...
Its been done across various genres numerous times over the decades, in a few fashions, even like this in comics and books. But its time to stop championing and glorifying the ghost in the machine with all the humanizing aspects Hollywood gives them and come back to reality. Stay away from garbage like this. Learn about it all from the late greats and do yourself a favor, film makers have more than enough cash from most of us after all these years.
The movie could have been done with a simply viral short video to get the point across: If we are to survive, we need useful, sustainable, innovative and safe technology for all, not facsimiles that are pretexts to little more than stepford drones.
Ban the bot =p .