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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY EXPLAINED
Every story is rooted in a previous generation. The current obsession with Ai is, ironically,
all too human - full of hype, lies, greed, myth and an almost mystical belief that the
impossible is almost within our grasp. The word odyssey is important here.
In ancient times, if a neighbour returned from a long sea voyage, telling tales of
two-headed monsters, you could privately mock them, but you couldn't prove they were wrong.
Maybe cinema works best when it is depicting impossible worlds. I think sci-fi works best
when it operates as a thought experiment. I remember reading Isaac Asimov as a kid and
him talking about if you added the right amount of hydogen, helium, etc to Jupiter's atmosphere,
you could kick-start evolution. Perhaps the most chilling form of future science is the popular
belief that we haven't evolved at all since our caveman days ... but our machines may go on ahead without us ...
P.s:
Funny how that mauve / off-white shade became the colour of computing.
Watched a couple of episodes of that 70s series 'Space 1999' and everything -
even the clothes and sets were all the same pigment as early 90s desktop PCs
THE GOOD
Excellent free graphics site.
Head to Domestika for great pro tutorials (dirt cheap)
then sign up for a month on envato elements (£12.50)
and download like crazy ...
THE BAD
Had it with these guys ...
Bad enough being railroaded into
paying for next day delivery, but then these
bozos sending you a picture of
someone else's front door
2 weeks later 'cos they couldn't
be arsed finding your flat.
scumbags
THE UGLY
As I've said before -
a real bummer that this site lost
all of its browsing and search functions.
Have to go the really long way around now -
research my favourite sites, hoping that
any decent vids have got a link back to vimeo.
The article above explains why.
RANDY MORA
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READING
I go through phases with reading. Occasionally I find a writer I really like and have to greedily chase down everything they've written. At the moment I'm in the 'buy the occasional book online and leave it sitting on the shelf phase.'
That's why I'm glad to stumble upon sites like Aeon from time to time ... helps me jump start my brain after a mind -numbing afternoon of admin or laborious data entry like some
kinda Ai monkey ...
A good spread of subjects - sociological,scientific and philosophical.
Not sure I agree with everythiing on the site ...
especially the 'Are we Selfish ?' essay,
but at least he mentions Peter Kropotkin ...
Best of all, there's no %#*$£! paywall
(click the link below)
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MEGALIZER
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THE DISAPPEARING WORLD
OF HONG KONG NEON
ZAKI ABDELMOUNIM
HIROSHI NAGAI
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