Watched the new Spiderman movie today and something that made me think was him tapping into real time face recognition surveillance cameras around the city to track his enemies real time, which I thought was strange to say the least in the light of the recent controversies around Flock cameras in the US. Is there something going on behind the scenes to plant the idea that these make for safer cities, or am I being paranoid and the movie is just trying to be cool by being hi-tech?
The other thing that caught my attention was him talking to his computer with natural language. Now this one isn’t exactly new for superhero movies, I remember Jarvis and Ironman, but regardless it came across as the sort of techbro dream scenario that the current day AI assistans are trying to realize, which is not an angle I’d consider at the time that I was watching the original Ironman.
I should probably stop overthinking these things and just try enjoying the movie instead, but I was curious to hear what others think about this.
He very clearly created what’s going to be the mutant power supressing tech (usually depicted as collars) that’s going to be used to round up mutants everywhere in the upcoming X-Men saga, yes. I expect it to be openly blamed on him a couple times, same as Iron Man creating Ultron and the Sokovia accords. The discussion with Banner about exactly that was the whole crucial point of what’s coming, yeah.