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A look into our future?

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The movie “Her” talks about a guy named Theodore, he has been in the process of divorcing for almost a year when he buys a communicative computer. In the course of the movie he starts to fall in love with it. "Her” is a movie that shows what could become of human interactions if a machine started to develop “feelings” and ideas of its own. I think it is a dangerous line that seems really near on our future and we shouldn't be crossing it.  When I was watching the movie I couldn't help but notice how similar it is to other one called “Bicentennial man” in order of how evolved machines can become in the future, in both movies the machine begins as something that has been created to help the humans solely, but through the movie it begins to realize how much  potential it really has and decides to make changes and grow as much as possible on its own. Both of them have different endings, though. So it's important to say that we couldn't tell which would becom...

Changes.

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When my dad was younger, he used to do a lot of exercise, usually three to four hours per day, three days a week including the weekend, but now he can't do as much exercise as he would like to. The reason for this is because he has some joint, knees, and shoulders problems, and those  make him feel bad or in pain when he tries to exercise. My dad in his athlete days. On the other hand, my dad didn't use to ride a motorcycle, but he has learned and now uses it almost every day. Also, he didn't have reading habits but now he does it very frequently because he finds it entretaining and enriching. When my was in college he also worked, now he has his career. At that time my dad used to work as a carpeter, but now he's a teacher. And also, he used to be married to my mother, but know they are divorced. I think changes are something important and inevitable in our life, changes are what makes us who we are and we should embrace them as something that is natural and ...