The Lawnmower Man...

The Lawnmower Man is about a character named Jode who suffers from mental retardation. One day he is shown some virtual reality games that he soon becomes involved in and participates in an experiment. Using drugs enhancments, virtual reality and cortex stimulation, Jode's intellegence starts to increase. He soon finds himself having telekinetic powers and a strong connection to computers and is able to manipulate virtual reality.

This is an interesting idea of a man increasing his intellence from the aid of computers. I like the idea of the computer giving him strength, upgrading him from a mentally retarded person to a kind of super human. He is also able to harness much more power when in virtual reality and the ambition of ringing every telephone in the world simultaniously proves his level of potential.

In a way the computer really has given us an increase in intellegence and power, but not on such an exagerrated degree. We increase our intellengence by searching up topics to learn on the internet and we can connect to multiple people to just about anywhere in the world via instant messengers.

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