Posted by ungraspiness
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:08:00 GMT
A movie with a cast including Ray Kurzweil(as himself), Marvin Minsky, self-help guru Anthony Robbins, Alvin Toffler, Mitch Kapor, Bill Joy, Aubrey de Gray and more.
This is a joke right ? Wrong. It’s near, apparently some time in 2008.
Plot outline : “Computer avatar saves the world from self-replicating microscopic robots.”
On a similar singular note, James Cameron’s Avatar is another sci-fi flick coming soon in the slightly further off but still near future.
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Posted by ungraspiness
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:43:00 GMT
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
Idiocracy, the second live film by Mike Judge (the 1st was ‘Office Space’) is a Science Fiction, Action Comedy set 500 years in the future. The world is inhabited(and ruled) by dysgenics while 2 unfortunate people from a failed military hibernation experiment in 2005 have the unfortunate chance of waking up in a completely bungled future. Luke Wilson gets a shot at the U.S. presidency because he ‘discovers’ that the dying crops of the world may grow again if they are watered instead of being fed a futuristic gatorade.
Brilliant.
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Posted by ungraspiness
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:55:00 GMT
Is Cronenberg brilliant or insane or are those the same thing ?
I am a fan of Cronenberg but have never seen this film. When I heard that Videodrome stars Debby Harry I decided to watch it out of sheer curiosity.
It has a similar feel to the 90s ‘Naked Lunch’. The makeup and effects as well as the blending of reality and imagination of the main character.
The theme of how mass media effects our reality can be easily mapped now to the internet.
Long live the new flesh (of cyberspace)...
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Posted by ungraspiness
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:36:00 GMT
Artificial Intelligence
An early look at artificial Intelligence. Guests includes Edward Feigenbaum of Stanford University, Nils Nilsson of the AI Center at SRI International, Tom Kehler of Intellegenetics, Herb Lechner of SRI, and John McCarthy of Stanford. Featured demonstrations include Inferential Knowledge Engineering and the programming language LISP. Originally broadcast in 1984.
AND
Daniel G Bobrow: Common LISP Object Standard (1987)
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Posted by ungraspiness
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:26:00 GMT
Saw this a few days ago. Not everyone’s cup of tea I’m sure but the mix of human with cgi characters is something worth seeing. more here.
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