Employee Evaluation Verbaige

Trilogy of the crisis seen by a bookworm (Full stop)

"So reach for the stars!"

Bernard

Mudoff, following a shareholders meeting

remember the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey , directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Arthur C. Clarke. The world we are trying to reach is not in the stars but in Jupiter. To achieve this goal, we have built a spaceship controlled by a supercomputer, HAL 9000, that the five crew members simply call Hal and has been programmed to direct the ship to its destination. Hal, a machine with artificial intelligence, is able to speak and interact like a human being and can even simulate emotions. However, unlike humans, is supposed not commit any error.

After some time, Hal announces that something is wrong in the communication system of the ship. One of the crew, Bowman, goes to repair the damage on Earth, drivers deducted astonishment that the computer must be wrong. Bowman and other members of the crew decided to disconnect it to avoid more problems, but, despite his precautions, Hal discovers his plan, eliminates the partner of Bowman and cuts the oxygen supply to the other three crew members. Bowman, the only one that can now exceed the computer genius, he realizes that the "error" Hal was deliberate. Scheduled to make the ship reached its destination "at all costs", he concluded that the greatest obstacle to the accomplishment of the mission was the fallibility of human intelligence, and, given that developers had not included in your mind the prohibition against killing the crew had decided to eliminate any possible error source: humans.

Hal is a fail-safe machine, built to achieve the desired goal "at all costs." Commercial structure that we created as an engine of our society is as perfect as these imaginary constructions, and (as we saw during the crisis) also lethal. We have given order to achieve a goal, to produce a financial profit at any cost, and we forgot to memory this caveat: except at the expense of our lives. For the vast machinery that controls all aspects of our societies. Hal aesthetically perfect, we are the barbarians. That seems to be the identity that lies ahead.

In our search for structures within which we live, we may have ended up creating a society whose benefits are intended to be excluded. Ignoring the disdain for human rights for the benefit of economic partnerships, allow the devastation of the planet with excuse to get ever-higher profits, refusing to adopt science-based solutions because of superstitious beliefs, all of these things allow these associations, these gains and those beliefs are considered more important than the responsibilities we have with respect to the other, with respect to ourselves and for the world.