Artificial life and life artificialization in Tron
Carolina Dantas de Figueiredo · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2012
Cinema constantly shows the struggle between the men and artificial intelligences. Fiction, and more specifically fiction films, lends itself to explore possibilities asking “what if?”. “What if”, in this case, is related to the eventual rebellion of artificial intelligences, theme explored in the movies Tron (1982) and Tron Legacy (2010) trat portray the conflict between programs and users. The present paper examines these films, observing particularly the possibility programs empowering. Finally, is briefly mentioned the concept of cyborg as a possibility of response to human concerns.