First of all I would like to focus on (I think..) the most convenient and easiet form of research which is film. We all know that there are thousands of films showing us futuristic world and make us wonder what our lives are going to be like in next twenty, thirty or maybe hundred years.
First film which makes me think of futurism and relations between human and technology is Matrix. However it's such a well known and quite common production that I don't think there is a point in going over this film. Nevertheless, I just would like to say that Matrix surely provides us with very strong emotions and give us a lot of visual stimuli which stay deep in our memories.
Omitting the Matrix films there is one think I would like to mention about which is a derivative of this series
The Animatrix is a 2003 direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy. The film is a compilation of nine animated short films.
To me each one of those short films is a masterpiece of computer animation. Framing, camera angles and all the rest of factors such as sound do not deviate from the standards of feature-length films.
here you will find a short summary about each story:
This short animation is a part of the Animatrix compilation.
' Kid (Clayton Watson) is a disaffected teenager who feels there is something wrong with the world, frequenting hacker chatrooms on the internet and wondering if he is alone. In school, he absent-mindendly scribbles "Neo lives" in his notebook. One day he receives a personal invitation from Neo (Keanu Reeves) to escape the Matrix (much as Morpheus invited Neo himself to escape it). The following day, he receives a call from Neo on his cell phone, and is chased through his high school by a band of Agents, before ultimately being cornered on the roof. He asserts his faith in Neo, and throws himself from the roof, whereupon the other characters are shown holding his funeral. The short fades up from black as the Kid awakens in the real world to see Neo and Trinity watching over him. They remark that he has achieved "self substantiation" (removing oneself from the Matrix without external aid), which was considered impossible. In both the short itself and The Matrix Reloaded, however, the Kid seems to believe it was Neo's actions, not his own, that saved him. '
This is an explanation of the film found in the internet (wikipedia), however to me this short story could also portray a young teenager who is not coping with the reality of the world and trying to escape from it.
This interpretation makes me think of young people loosing the sense of reality because of the huge impact of todays computerization on their weak minds.
*The animation style for this short is unique and dynamic - sometimes reminding you of a colored pencil sketch, and other times evoking something that's organic, malleable, and not quite real. You notice that later especially during the skateboard chase where Michael bends and stretches in completely unreal ways as he avoids capture.
