From: Artillo5@cs.com
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 06:55:55 MDT
In a message dated 08/21/2002 5:55:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
asa@nada.kth.se writes:
<< The real issue isn't about getting people to present our ideas in a
positive way - that is nice, of course, but the really useful movies and
books would be the ones that make people think about the issues rather
than just cheer for one side. A scenario where transhuman ideas are
analysed and put in a context of other ideas, so that people could start
linking them with their own ideas.
(Of course, supersoldiers is an old concept in Hollywood. It has been
done before in all possible permutations of Van Damme, Schwartzenegger
et al. The biggest risk is maybe that the word posthuman gets associated
with yet another boring movie) >>
I wonder if it would be worthwhile compiling a list of
"Extropian/Transhuman/Posthuman-friendly" directors, movie studios, and
actors?
I think the point of media exposure to these ideas SHOULD BE the spread of
positive memes. Getting people thinking about this stuff is a good thing,
yes, BUT if they start out with a negative slant, it's human nature to
extrapolate the ideas and think of worse and worse situations where these
ideas could be applied.
The last thing I want to see is another stupid 'super-soldier' movie! I am a
pretty big sci-fi movie buff, and (besides Star Trek) can't really think of
many positive slants on Extropian ideas in POPULAR film. In my opinion, AI
was a half-assed attempt. Minority Report had some stuff but much of it was
ridiculous in usage (that was already discussed in previous threads). GAATACA
was negative because it showed how far discrimination will go if we don't do
something about our government's policies NOW. MAYBE it will wake some people
up. We can only hope and try our best to get some intelligent discussions
into mainstream media.
My 2 cents...
Brian
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