From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 19:01:36 MDT
COMMENTS FROM DAK musician, software designer, and neural net composer...
http://www.zog.net.au/dak/rack/index.html
"Avatar Polymorph wrote:
>- The computing industry is almost not present in any sense, despite the
>silly computer screens and supposed holographic effects. Apart from some
>VR games and implied car guidance, there is not indication of real
>computing power. For example, the jet packs are not shown to be computer
>assisted.
I think tom cruise would have gotten creamed in the fight scene if they
were. That may not be such a bad thing...
>- The robotics/automata industry is almost not present in any sense,
>despite the outdated scene in the car factory and the spider-identifier
>machines.
>
>- The health industry is almost not present in any sense, despite the
>silly computer-assisted eye transfer operation (rejection is not a
>problem). For example, there is no reference to grow-your-own organs...
>There are neurological interfaces (?) of some sort - "brain readers" -
>but the implications of these are not fleshed out. Wrinkled skin is
>ever-present! There is a reference to there being no cure for the common
>cold - a bit sad really considering there has been one for some time now
>and it is actually on the market (flu viral blocker) and has been on the
>tv news.
Yeah. I think that it's unlikely that wholesale retinal scans would be
used as an authentication technique. I've seen eye theft/transplant as a
way of getting round this in quite a few movies set closer to the
present. Surely there will be a sneaky nano way of doing quick genetic
scans. Can't think of anything else that could be unfakeably secure. And
with serious nano, I'm sure this could be scammed. The only obvious
solution for digital security is to create such a warm generous fluffy
wealthy and compassionate society that hard digital security won't be
necessary.
>Conclusion: Regarding background tech, this is a movie addressed to
>suburbia, to make them come to terms with what was happening in 1990.
Agreed. Though i think that preserving the blandness of a suburbia in
conflict with high tech is very thematically KDick.
Possibly there is a block to the real possibilities of near future tech.
Genuine longevity and prevalent self rep nano raises so many issues that
perhaps the media can't contemplate... paranoidly, perhaps _they don't
want us to contemplate them_
The other big tech thing missing is of course quantum computers, which I
don't think rate a mention. At the current rate of progression of qbits
(? and I'm not really following closely, so it may be further ahead than
last projections), 2050 will see decently powerful quantum computers as
common as shit. Which also means decent AI (in the limited sense I mean
it) just as common... with a high potential for genuine artificial
consciousness, what most people label AI."
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And surely a computer retinal scan can tell if the blood is moving! And the
cells are moving! I looked at my blood cells in a microscope the other day,
it was interesting to see the bacteria taking over!!!... Avatar...
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