#corporate-control

#corporate-control

In the original movie, released in 1982, Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus, infiltrating the digital universe of the Grid, where anthropomorphized programs who stray from their assigned functions are sentenced to deletion in a virtual arena, and liberating both them and the company that created them, ENCOM. Twenty-eight years later, Tron: Legacy picked up the thread with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), as its protagonist, and Kevin as both its hero and its villain.

In this year alone, we witnessed an unprecedented wave of disruption across social media platforms, impacting how individuals and organizations communicate securely.

Martha Wells suggests that the real threat lies in tech companies enslaving robots for profit, rather than fully sentient machines taking over the world.