In the Terminator movies, SKYNET is
a computer program that literally takes over the world in 2017 so that humanity
no longer has any control. The computers have control of everything. There is
no way to turn it off. Any resistance is met with fatal results. John Connor
and company have the mission to prevent SKYNET first from occurring then to
destroy it.
Would it surprise you to know that
SKYNET exists now, in 2015?
It does, just in a different form.
How many of you own a cell phone? It
does not matter if it is a Smartphone, an Android, an iPhone, or any similar
device. If you answered yes, how often do you use it? Odds are that you use it
much more often than you are aware.
You check you mail? How many times a
day? Same for texting. For games. How many apps do you have? How about
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all the other social media? How often do you
use them, and for what meaningless reason do you use them?
When do you use them? In the home;
at work, outside? Do you use it when you are standing still or sitting? Or do
you use it when you are moving and are oblivious to where you are going? How
many of you keep checking them when you are driving? How many have gotten
seriously injured or died because they did not look where they were going?
How many use them in places they
should not be used? Do you use them in school? Do you use them in a theater
while the movie is playing? (I went to see a movie [believe it or not, it was
“Terminator: Genisys”] and several people had their cell phones on and were
using them for one reason or another despite the notices)
How many have had relationships
break up because someone could not put down the phone?
What is it with people that they
cannot take time out from these devices, to put them down and turn them off, as
if they have trouble living in the world that exists around them?
This is what I mean that SKYNET
exists now. The ever present internet and the communication satellites that
connect our cell phones is the present form of SKYNET to which I refer. John
Connor symbolically is the drive to get people to put them down and live their
lives, to move around safely, to connect with each other face to face.
Message to the people of the world: Don’t let your cell phones rule you,
like SKYNET. Remember, you rule them.
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