Some Traveller inspiration from an unexpected place
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alex_greene
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Gloves-on existence, everything kept at bay behind a surface of glass, so nobody will feel anything or need to worry about being too cold or too warm, or get rained on or have birds take a dump on you or pretty much anything at all happening to you, good or bad.
Petty. Indulgent. Lazy, risk-averse and cowardly. Weak. So weak.
Petty. Indulgent. Lazy, risk-averse and cowardly. Weak. So weak.
I'm sure a lot of sci-fi writers have covered this (I know its in a collection called nine by laumer). it normally end with nobody ever meeting face to face, or interacting, and with personal meetings creating feelings of disgust.
it's a very bad idea to get too disconnected, or so it seems to go.
Still, it would be cool in limited usage.
it's a very bad idea to get too disconnected, or so it seems to go.
Still, it would be cool in limited usage.
alex_greene
Guest
I find the whole environment in that advertisement so artificial, too clean, as if somebody had airbrushed out every flaw and blemish. Nobody can live amid such artificially maintained cleanliness. The cleanest pond is sterile.
How do they cope with a screen full of dead pixels? Do they have to call in the engineer to replace the fridge door if the system gets virused and instead of pretty pics of the girls it shows nothing but his private stash of pics of naked guys?
And would the system be vulnerable to someone infiltrating the computer with spyware just so he can monitor and record the couple in bed, or watch her in the shower and so on? All those displays look so pretty, but they could be compromised so easily, turning that home into an overheated nightmare with the internal thermostat turned up to maximum, the lighting turned to red and Black Sabbath's Paranoid coming out of every speaker at ninety decibels. On perpetual loop.
How do they cope with a screen full of dead pixels? Do they have to call in the engineer to replace the fridge door if the system gets virused and instead of pretty pics of the girls it shows nothing but his private stash of pics of naked guys?
And would the system be vulnerable to someone infiltrating the computer with spyware just so he can monitor and record the couple in bed, or watch her in the shower and so on? All those displays look so pretty, but they could be compromised so easily, turning that home into an overheated nightmare with the internal thermostat turned up to maximum, the lighting turned to red and Black Sabbath's Paranoid coming out of every speaker at ninety decibels. On perpetual loop.
alex_greene
Guest
And if they start liking it, I change the soundtrack to Barney, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and everything ever put out by the Spice Girls.barnest2 said:
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
The thing is, with mobiles, lap tops and blue tooth, we are half way there already. All it really needs is more linking "apps" (thought the reality may not have so much glass). Though very stylishly done, the advert just extrapolates forward 10 years from where we are already at.
Egil
Egil
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
alex_greene said:
Make sure you up-date your anti-virus regularly!
Egil
alex_greene
Guest
35 years ago, about 1976 or so, if we'd seen a show featuring these sorts of amenities we'd have marvelled at the Things To Come. The BBC would have made some sort of Horizon segment on it - in fact, I bet they have made several such pieces over the years - but all of them predicated on the one fallacy: that the technology would not alter the lives or the lifestyles of those using it; that we'd all still be living a Margo Ledbetter 9-5 2.4 children Surbiton Daily Mail lifestyle, only with these bits of tech bolted on.
Whereas now, a whole generation of kids have been born who can email before they learn to write with a pen on paper or even tie their shoes. Cut off the electricity to run their fancy gear, and they're speechless. Even a mobile phone needs its batteries charged - so in a blackout, the person with the strongest mobile battery gets the last word. Though obviously, he'll have nobody to talk to.
If we've learned anything, we've learned that the future just seems to get grungier, not cleaner.
Whereas now, a whole generation of kids have been born who can email before they learn to write with a pen on paper or even tie their shoes. Cut off the electricity to run their fancy gear, and they're speechless. Even a mobile phone needs its batteries charged - so in a blackout, the person with the strongest mobile battery gets the last word. Though obviously, he'll have nobody to talk to.
If we've learned anything, we've learned that the future just seems to get grungier, not cleaner.
alex_greene said:
All grist for the Traveller mill. The vulnerability of the technology and its penetrance throughout a hi-tech society makes for great plot backgrounds or direct scenario aims. The PCs could be counter-terrorist operatives who analyse hacking events and try to trace, both virtually and physically, the perpetrators. On the flip-side, the PCs are hired to hack the system, generally or of a specific individual, for political/philosophical/financial reasons. Or the PCs are investigating a murder and the fridge door holds all the clues!
Well, yes. It's an advert from the company making the glass.alex_greene said:
Now let's see what really happens:The guy wakes up to the alarm and throws his slipper through the big TV. The woman goes into the bathroom and finds an invitation from a boyfriend.
At breakfast, the kids scribble on each other's photos. The man calls his mother using the phone, which dumps the guy's porn collection onto the table. The kids are amused, his mother isn't. The guy tries to fry an egg, only it's the wrong part of the table and he puts egg on the newsreader's face instead.
The woman finds out that the invitation in the bathroom actually came from the car's AI. She rejects it. In revenge, the car blacks the windscreen just as she's distracted by the satnav, which at least means she misses the overhead advertisement.
At a bus shelter, a man takes a photo of a woman using his phone, which promptly copies it to the shelter's screen. The resulting fight is stopped when the shelter is hit by a car with a blackened windscreen.
In an office, a man is caught using the big screen to view pictures of a woman in skimpy clothes. Fortunately his boss likes the clothes. Unfortunately the woman in the pictures is the boss. The man is fired. In revenge he copies the pictures to the megascreen on the outside wall.
An architect shows off his building plans. He has no porn on his phone. He also has no social life, which is why his phone is full of building plans.
In the evening the TV has been repaired and the happy family settle down to watch the Inspirational Traveller Art Thread.
:lol:
AdrianH said:Well, yes. It's an advert from the company making the glass.
The guy wakes up to the alarm and throws his slipper through the big TV. The woman goes into the bathroom and finds an invitation from a boyfriend...
LOL Bravo! Well done.
Solomani666
Mongoose
I can sum this up with one simple phrase...
T - M - F - I - !!!
If all of this were implemented you can expect a rise in mental illnesses and suicides.
Just imagine imagine Face Book In-Your-Face 24/7!
The only redeming feature of this is that the guy had to get off his fracking ass to change the channel of the TV channel!
[digress]
I once had a friend bring some lawyer guy on a climb with us (lives in a ritsy place featured in one of the Bourne movies.) First fracking pitch completed and sitting on a ledge at 200+ feet up eating lunch and his cell phone rings! Both of us were shocked that this fracker actually brought a cell phone with him on a climb even after we told him not to, and he promised he would not! (We did not want our 'Zen' spoiled.) We were both like WTF dude! You ACTUALLY brought a cell phone with you and you are ACTUALLY going to answer it while we are 200 feet up a cliff face and preparing for the second pitch!? Are you out of your fracking mind!? Needless to say, after 15 minutes of legaleese jibber jabber, we decided he was not going on the second and third pitch with us and we belayed his sorry fracking ass down. (Had this been the second pitch...) His phone rang no les than 4 fracking times during the process and he ACTUALLY answered each call while still on belay and being lowered down! (The thought of simply dropping him had crossed my mind but that would have been an unforgivable breach if climbing etiquette.) I lost 2 carabiners and a runner with this endeavor. Needless to say, he never went climbing with us again...
[/digress]
Blackberries are called Crackberries for a reason! People are disconnected from reality enough without all of the technology this video proposes.
Then there is the question of who actually controls the flow of information.
Forget the crap you see in the movies, Facebook was funded by a CIA front company.
People are becoming a stupid as rocks as it is. Schools are being 'dumbed down'. The majority of people let their emotions do their thinking for them; not disrupting their 'idea' of how the world works (read Maslow), pride of feeling superior, ego of having to prove themselve right all the time, or some random emotions that have little or no basis on reality. The very last thing that this or any society needs is to be constantly bombarded with is incorrect (aka lies), trivial and meaningless information.
I can't really say much (or anything) on my backround on this matter, but I would suggest that you think of the following whenever you read any news source:
1. Assume by default, that whatever stated in any one new media is an outright lie, or at the very least severely misrepresented.
2. Read news sources from various countries. Rarely do they get their lies in sync. (Thank God!)
3. Ask yourself questions. Who benefits? Why is this happening now? If I were in control how would this fit my agenda?
4. Is the article trying to evoke an emotional response? (Diverting from reason.) Rapes of women, Babies wounded, Calling a chemical bomb a WMD etc. Expect the BS reasoning to follow...
5. Very Important: Is this contrary to news I read just 2 or 3 years ago? (This might require some research, but I have determined some years ago that Americans in general only have a memory span of 3 years. I have since amended this to 2 years at most and I see this approaching only a year or even 6 months in the very near future. If you live in America and do not see this, you need to read "1984".)
6. Some conspiracy theories are not just theories even though most of the people that seem to support it are wackos. (the Internet is a two-edged sword. Figure this out on your own.) If a security guard did not look for 'imagindary' burglars then none would ever be found.
Since the original thread posed no questions and presented what to me seem to clearly represent what I consider to be 'Complete Information Overload' I decided to put in my 100$ + 2 Cents.
.
T - M - F - I - !!!
If all of this were implemented you can expect a rise in mental illnesses and suicides.
Just imagine imagine Face Book In-Your-Face 24/7!
The only redeming feature of this is that the guy had to get off his fracking ass to change the channel of the TV channel!
[digress]
I once had a friend bring some lawyer guy on a climb with us (lives in a ritsy place featured in one of the Bourne movies.) First fracking pitch completed and sitting on a ledge at 200+ feet up eating lunch and his cell phone rings! Both of us were shocked that this fracker actually brought a cell phone with him on a climb even after we told him not to, and he promised he would not! (We did not want our 'Zen' spoiled.) We were both like WTF dude! You ACTUALLY brought a cell phone with you and you are ACTUALLY going to answer it while we are 200 feet up a cliff face and preparing for the second pitch!? Are you out of your fracking mind!? Needless to say, after 15 minutes of legaleese jibber jabber, we decided he was not going on the second and third pitch with us and we belayed his sorry fracking ass down. (Had this been the second pitch...) His phone rang no les than 4 fracking times during the process and he ACTUALLY answered each call while still on belay and being lowered down! (The thought of simply dropping him had crossed my mind but that would have been an unforgivable breach if climbing etiquette.) I lost 2 carabiners and a runner with this endeavor. Needless to say, he never went climbing with us again...
[/digress]
Blackberries are called Crackberries for a reason! People are disconnected from reality enough without all of the technology this video proposes.
Then there is the question of who actually controls the flow of information.
Forget the crap you see in the movies, Facebook was funded by a CIA front company.
People are becoming a stupid as rocks as it is. Schools are being 'dumbed down'. The majority of people let their emotions do their thinking for them; not disrupting their 'idea' of how the world works (read Maslow), pride of feeling superior, ego of having to prove themselve right all the time, or some random emotions that have little or no basis on reality. The very last thing that this or any society needs is to be constantly bombarded with is incorrect (aka lies), trivial and meaningless information.
I can't really say much (or anything) on my backround on this matter, but I would suggest that you think of the following whenever you read any news source:
1. Assume by default, that whatever stated in any one new media is an outright lie, or at the very least severely misrepresented.
2. Read news sources from various countries. Rarely do they get their lies in sync. (Thank God!)
3. Ask yourself questions. Who benefits? Why is this happening now? If I were in control how would this fit my agenda?
4. Is the article trying to evoke an emotional response? (Diverting from reason.) Rapes of women, Babies wounded, Calling a chemical bomb a WMD etc. Expect the BS reasoning to follow...
5. Very Important: Is this contrary to news I read just 2 or 3 years ago? (This might require some research, but I have determined some years ago that Americans in general only have a memory span of 3 years. I have since amended this to 2 years at most and I see this approaching only a year or even 6 months in the very near future. If you live in America and do not see this, you need to read "1984".)
6. Some conspiracy theories are not just theories even though most of the people that seem to support it are wackos. (the Internet is a two-edged sword. Figure this out on your own.) If a security guard did not look for 'imagindary' burglars then none would ever be found.
Since the original thread posed no questions and presented what to me seem to clearly represent what I consider to be 'Complete Information Overload' I decided to put in my 100$ + 2 Cents.
.
alex_greene
Guest
I just read all of the above on my fresh new Corning glass kitchen table.Solomani666 said:
