Time Enough at Last!

Time Enough At Last.

 This Twilight Zone episode is considered one of the famous episodes in the television series. It tackles social issues such as anti-intellectualism and informs the audience of what technology can do to humans if used in a wrong way. The plot itself is already good. The way tragedy is portrayed was just cruel. All hope is gone and just as he was planning to commit suicide, he saw a library and give him another reason to live. But then in just a blink of an eye, his glasses fell and just like that, hope is gone once again. What a perfect tragedy.

If I were to make an adaptation of this movie, well, I will make it also a tragedy. As an STS student, I will focus more on harms that technology can bring us if used in a wrong way and not much on anti-intellectualism and solitude stuff.

Here’s a plot summary I think of:

As humans live through years and years, they made machines to help them in their everyday life. And there’s this one scientist who discovered and invented a certain code which programs a robot in whatever way you want it to be programmed.

 Robots become popular and almost everyone has a robot helper in their houses. He was known all throughout the country. He was living the life. Desperate for more fame and money, this scientist developed what he called an ultimate code, which makes a robot think and act like human beings. In a small amount of time, he became famous, he was known in every corner of the world.

So many years have passed and humans became so lazy that they let their robots do their everyday stuff and work resulting to obesity of the whole population. The scientist became so rich, he bought all the things he wanted, did whatever he wanted, travelled to places he wanted to go, he was happy.

Until a bug in the code was triggered, all robots were corrupted by some kind of virus and were malfunctioning. Robots became wild and dangerous, they started attacking humans and killing their owners. They are powerful than humans, well, they are superior to humans. The whole world was in bloodshed. The also killed his loved ones, his family, his friends, everyone. He was going crazy, he was scared and he was running, going somewhere the robots can’t reach him.

But still, the robots found him. He was trembling, afraid of how the robots would kill him. He thought he is the only person left in the whole world, so he might as well die. So he closed his eyes, waiting for his death but the robots did not kill him. Instead, they knelt, and worshipped him. They worshpiped him as a god, as a creator.