There is some(but not much) parallel to the Apple story. I equate Dr. Walter Gibbs with Steve Wozniak. He created the original Apple I but did not have the interest or expertise to run the company and left it to Steve Jobs and Mike Markula. Alan, Kevin and Lora are like the team brought in to build the Macintosh and take the company in a new direction. Wozniak wasn't interested in that and left. Although, Woz is still technically, to this day, an employee of Apple.

cirlin Wrote:So if our home computers are now powerful enough to have a universe as advanced as the one in the first movie, what happens to everyone when I turn my computer off at night? I've always been kinda bothered by that question. I kinda think that the world would still be there, just in sort of a standby mode or something. The computer has a battery that keeps some basic functions going, like keeping track of the time, so I imagine all but the most basic programs in some kind of stasis alcoves, like the sirens that put the armor on Sam.

That's a pretty good possibility. Though I tend to wonder if even stasis pods are the reality. That'd make sense in a normal OS shutdown, but not simply flipping the switch off. Chances are though, nobody would ever be able to know what happens when you just switch it off, because, nobody would be conscious to remember. It's right up there with trying to figure out what happens after death, by asking the people who have died. You, sorta... can't.

And that brings me to one of my other ancient questions... what DOES happen to Programs who have died? Is there an afterlife of sorts for them? I would think, that with all the God metaphors in the relationship between User/Program, that somebody must have given this some thought.
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I tend to think of the world of Tron as an alternate universe that users can create and manipulate with computers. The world is not completely bound by our technology. What we see as programs are just a representation in our world of the program's purpose or function. That's why I don't think that it's necessary for the Tron world to look more like ours as technology improves. As humans gain more abilities and knowledge our physical bodies do not change, or the laws of the universe for that matter. We simply build intellectually on what has come before us. It's in the mind that we grow. So, the Tron world can do things that perhaps we can't do technologically. Such as an accounting program being sent t to a game grid and being used as a users avatar in the light cycle game. It's the MCP's way of humiliating programs.