Re: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 02:41:43 MST


hal@finney.org writes:

> I've been trying to think of an Extropian angle on this film, but I
> haven't had much luck.
...
> This movie takes martial arts action to the next level. Characters in
> Crouching Tiger run up walls, across water, and leap hundreds of feet
> through the air, all with effortless grace amid beautifully choreographed
> battle sequences.

Well, I guess here it is: we want to be able to do things like that
too (preferably beautifully choreographed too - maybe that is a job
for self-organising nets of wearables that also supply suitable
background music? :-).

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