Review of Transcendence (2014) by April G — 08 Oct 2014

I honestly don't care what the critics are saying. I though this film was brilliant. It's a question as old as time, is it worth giving up our autonomy as human beings in order to solve all of our problems; disease, deformity, environmental detriment, war, perhaps even overcoming death itself? When a man merges his consciousness with that of an artificial intelligence he (it?) is able to through nanotechnology regenerate damaged cells on a molecular level---releasing "a positive virus.

" But the cost of benefiting from this technology is joining a collective mind. The man/computer says we remain autonomous, but those still unconnected are understandably dubious. We also doubt whether the man still exists within the AI.

Seen through the eyes of his wife, we long for it, but even she doubts. In the end humanity chooses autonomy and a new Dark Age. Only when its too late do we realize we might have made an irreparable mistake.