From: Ken Clements (Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com)
Date: Fri Dec 17 1999 - 12:26:00 MST
Danny Yavuzkurt wrote:
> Now it's just a matter of time until they're implanted in us at birth...
Some on this list may remember the movie, "The President's Analyst" (1967),
which was a spy satire staring James Coburn. The real bad guys turn out to be
TPC (The Phone Company), who's automaton executives are out to save money on
infrastructure by having a phone chip (with lifetime dedicated phone number)
injected into the bloodstream of each person at birth, which then becomes lodged
in the brain and provides phone service.
I think satire may be a better vehicle for long term predictions because of the
added freedom that comes from not having to be very reasonable at the time.
-Ken
P.S.
The writer-director, Theodore Flicker, of this movie showed it to a group of us
when I was in college, and told us some amusing stories about making it. They
were worried that Bell Tel would put pressure on the distributors to suppress
the film, but that did not turn out to be a problem. What did turn out to be a
problem, is that the FBI did not like the spoof they did on J. E. Hoover, so the
studio made them go back in and redub all the frames where someone says "FBI" to
be "FBR" (the "CIA" also got changed in this process, but Flicker disavowed any
knowledge of how that happened).
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