I've been watching a new show on Netflix called Altered Carbon. It's based on a book by Richard K. Morgan and takes place in a futuristic society where rich people can live for hundreds of years (or possibly forever). A new technology has allowed people to be implanted with a disk called a "stack" in the back of their neck which stores their personality and memories. When your body dies, as long as your stack is still intact, it can be put into another body. When someone is put in prison, their stack is removed and put in storage and their body is given to someone else. Rich people can afford the best bodies and some can even have clones of themselves made. But if your stack is destroyed there is no coming back. Then you're really gone forever. The main character, Takeshi Kovacs, was something called an envoy. Envoys have incredible instincts and fighting skills. They were all killed off except for him. He was arrested and put in prison until 250 years later when a rich man named…
The Netflix original series Black Mirror has attracted a surprising number of critics, some ridiculing the very premise of the series - and having that backfire - others just dismissing it as "pretentious," while others claim the very title sailed over their heads, and finally a whole subsection out there blowing it off because it's similar to The Twilight Zone franchise. Um, yeah, that's the whole point! For those out of the loop: Black Mirror is a modern speculative fiction anthology series with a UK production beat (irregular seasons with episodes stretching to movie-length). It focuses on hard sci-fi dystopian scenarios, taking recent developments in technology and extrapolating the "what if?" factor from there to view the human impact. Usually, it's a grim and rotten, cyberpunk world. "And they all lived happily ever after" said no Black Mirror story ever. At any given time since the dawn of mass electronic media, we've never been far from a speculative fiction anthology series. You…
First There Was The Greatest Advertisement Ever Made: Hear me out. This is brilliant, and I will explain why. For now, if you have not seen The Ad That Melted The Internet, here it is. My advice is to play it slow, with subtitles / closed captioning turned on, so that you hear every word and ONLY the words contained in the ad. This ad has the power, like The Shadow, to cloud men's minds. People hear everything they want to hear in this ad. People are posting all over the Internet claiming they heard messages from the spirit world and all kinds of crazy stuff in this ad. Transcript of this ad: Is this the best a man can get? Is it?We can't hide from it. It's been going on for far too long.We can't laugh it off, making the same old excuses.But something finally changed, and there will be no going back.Because we, we believe in the best in men.To say the right thing, to act the right way.Some already are, in ways big and small.But "some" is not enough, because the boys watching today, will…
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