Lontoc, Lyra B. August 28, 2014
Quite, Tracy Anne Jay O.
1. Why is the movie entitled "Transcendence"?
Transcendence meaning climbing or going beyond limitations .When Depp’s character, Will, got shot and almost killed but then survived. A few weeks later he got seriously ill and has only a month to live. His adoring wife Evelyn, decided to upload his consciousness into a super computer with the help of their friend Maxx. Doing this means going beyond the limits, although we know that some of us has the ability to build a computer with same like capacity of the human brain but uploading someone’s consciousness on a computer is really out of the box or have gone beyond our limitations. This is why the movie is entitled “Transcendence”.
2. Relate the movie to our subject biotech.
Transcendence is a science fiction movie. So as we can see it talks about science if we set aside all the dramas and romance. This movie shows Stem Cell Engineering and cloning, that we all know is under Modern Biotechnology. On some part of the movie, we saw dried plants turning into a healthy plant and then blind person gaining their sense of seeing back. The AI or Will’s consciousness uploaded in the super computer treats living things diseases by regenerating new cells. Also near the ending of the movie Will shows up, but as we know he died already. It’s because he cloned his self.
3. Discuss each concept of the movie in terms of the ff:
A. Bioinformatics for the Movie.
It seems that in the movie they have technology in the higher level. And they use it to develop and analyze the genes of living things. Expert says that bioinformatics always considered a combination of both sciences, along with other contributing disciplines. Like what was say in the first