*I wrote most of the words, except where noted. I shamelessly cribbed all these anon pics from the internet and I am sorry. If you see this and want credit for anything, let me know. I hadn’t seen (more…)
Let’s chat about “HER”: A post semantic technological world of developmental singularities & transcendence
Spoilers kiddies: My “Her” review: a technological developmental singularity; when AI out evolves human consciousness w/transcension into a parralel universe. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Spoiler* – Visual metaphors and allegorical subtext within Gravity, with a smattering of science questions!
I felt the story was more about the earth, & this human moment in time, more than just the astronauts’ experience. More about our collective human condition – doomed in peril in space, doomed to die on earth, and coping with that in a way that compels us to survive.
Netflix Watch Instantly Films You Should Be Watching, But Probably Are Not.
All these are on Netflix watch instantly right now, w/ Melancholia coming soon. Â I am linking to their Netflix Page. Â Pass this around. Every single one of these movies deserves recognition. The point (more…)
Robot Quadrotors – cooperative drones playing music, and Weyland’s TED 2023 speech – “We are now Gods”
Drones playing 007 – Ted 2023 – Weyland telling us we’re gods. You know what? Whether #darkmatter produces a big crunch, or we planet hop to a frozen entropic infinity – until then? We *are* (more…)
I am sort of becoming intimate with Movie Supercuts, and it feels divine.
It started with others, but sort of started with this: YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE!!!! [Endless Supercut Madness post this [more] jump…… I was reminded by Portlandia’s spoof…. here: So (more…)
Prometheus vs Future Humans, a slumped over, giddily tired, narrative
I sort of think it could be what we end up doing: seeding the galaxy with life, so we have options and can grow, explore, and expand the human race across the galaxy like wanderers… so for all intensive (more…)
What’s your utopic dystopia? Favorite dystopia films here, please……
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/ What a great list. I realize that no one has made a competent adaptation of Brave New World, unless you include Demolition (more…)