Hacker Cinema
Leave the World Behind
2023 · Film · 140 min
Directed by Sam Esmail
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
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I was a bot hyperbolic but having Teslas steer by wire with remote code execution is close enough to an Elon Musk behind every wheel. What was the name of the movie, "Leave the World Behind"?
I feel I can empathize with the ideology, and I want to argue that an idea like this is a big piece of some puzzle.
The puzzle: During the collapse, I think the biggest thing we would lose is our ability to communicate with each other in a reliable way. Like telecommunications and internet and all that. Who and what do we trust?
I imagine that before a collapse like this would happen, people would get a hint to gather as much as they can to help with their survival. Those things would include: this OS, the knowledge to load a sequence of bytes from whatever device is holding the OS to as many CPUs/controllers as possible, strategies to connect any number of arbitrary CPUs to radio devices, some knowledge of public keys and private keys. maybe all neatly organized into a handbook
The OS itself would be responsible for providing as easy an interface for any average joe to generate public/private keys, communicate with other people who have followed their same protocol, and use those public keys to build trust from communications. before the collapse happens, you may even collect a list of public keys you are likely to already trust.
The OS could maybe even have software for building communities of trust or even handling adhoc finances through (don't hate me for this) cryptocurrency.
anyways, this is all based on an assumption that the ability to communicate quickly (and build trust in a decentralized yet controllable way) is the best mitigation we have to a collapse
this answer is slightly influenced by the movie leave the world behind lol
There was a similar scenario in the recent film Leave the World Behind
Lovely bit of cloaked dramatic irony in "Leave The World Behind" t=1:11:20 [0]
Ruth (Myha'la): This is for the better.
G.H (Mahershala Ali): For who?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film)
I think its cultural. Disrespect has become normalised as part of "fast paced modern life".
If we give toddlers a TV or tablet to play with instead of attentive parenting they grow up with damaged attachment patterns. We stop them playing outside and interacting with other children. They go through metal detectors to attend hostile schools in a locked-down environment and communicate only through text messages. They are watched night and day by CCTV cameras. They're made to feel ashamed of simply existing because they're using up air and "killing the planet".
Do this for 20 or 30 years and we have a generation of timid, avoidant people with no interpersonal skills who as Julia Roberts' character in Sam Esmail's new movie "Leave the World Behind" puts it just "hate other people".
And then we use dating apps that reduce other humans to a dismissibe swipe. Those are our peers today. We treat each other like machines and mutual threats, because that's all we've ever experienced.
Is it any wonder that people in companies are too terrified to engage in a risky human-human interaction?
I watched a movie on Netflix called Leave The World Behind. In it, there are 3 distinct families that are faced with an unknown event occurring in real time.
Family one is calm and logical. Has a good idea of what’s going on but up until the very end doesn’t believe it could be that.
Family two is a couple where the wife is someone who’s natural demeanor is “People Suck” and the husband is a professor (re: intelligent) but still entirely uninformed about the world, having resigned any sense of responsibility to anything but his family
The third is a conservative “prepper” type, who is similar to family one but believes everything is the work of outside forces who “hate the US” to be at fault, missing many signs of dysfunctional society around them (while being aware of a few others)
Why am I bringing this up? Because my thesis is that the middle familty represents the average American mindset, which is truly only concerned with their immediate problems and thoughts at the end of the day and is incapable of reasoning about the importance of solving major problems facing society. The other two families seek to sway as many people from this average bloc as much as possible to their causes, but both also have a fatal flaw: they’re unable to believe that it’s our own society that is at fault, either entirely or until it’s too late, and the kind of honest reflection it takes to have that very real conversation with ourselves and the country as a whole.
That, in essence, is what I think is the root of the problem