Conceiving Ada

This film, for me, was the most complicated in the ways it used technology because it made some leaps that I think were not entirely accounted for. Specifically, the use of an agent, the bird Charlotte, to move through time, bringing Ada's time to life, back into action for Emmy to interact with. However, I do not think this jump hurt the film much because the key was the interaction between Emmy and Ada, which gave the film its meaning. In the end Ada is not sure that she wants a half life in the year 2000, 166 years in the future. The legacy of her brilliance and the continuation of her studies becomes less important to Ada as she lies on her death bed, contemplating her life. The importance of the technology, more than being able to contact the past, is the steps that have all lead up to where the world is headed. Ada's creation of tech. language such as the word "system" was a significant contribution to the direction people took when approaching computer language and coding. Similarly, the ground breaking leaps Emmy appears to be making with her knowledge will impact the future of technology. The connection between these two women is a symbol of the connections between the past and the present through technology. Their live interaction demonstrates how the past actually impacts the future and how the future shines a light back on the past revealing more about the past via what resulted from it. The film shows how people like Ada started and knew they were doing something important, without being able to see the fruit of their knowledge. This retrospective look speaks to the present, reminding the brilliant minds of today, or even people with just a good idea that ideas and beginnings like Ada's can change the future of society and the world, perhaps not in this lifetime, but eventually everybody's contribution has some impact on the way people see the the world, and what the future will become.