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Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle
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Confused Philospher thinks this is a strange place to do so.
Wouldn't San Fransico make more sense since it is at the heart of the Federation of Planets?
Why slashdot? Why not?
The guy goes and does something vaguely positive, and the most "enlightened" comments on SlashDot are "Look at his teeth, haw haw haw!".
I think its a fantastic idea. A lot of people will go there to be inspired by past scifi works.
Certainly better than going to an amusement park dedicated to a giant fucken mouse.
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you can be certain this is another way to tax the locals just like his 'emp' and his 'allen' *cough* 'seahawks' stadium (300 million in sales taxes diverted to fund it). what a cheezeface.
There is plenty of Science Fiction in real life. Just take a look around you.
Genetic engineering, laptop computers, handheld computers, speech recognition, MRI, flatscreen TVs, MP3 players, human genome project, digital cameras, CNC machines, 3D "printers", cloning, the internet, and countless other items of everyday technology all would seem like something out of science fiction 20 or 30 years ago.
The future truly is now! It is only going to get more so, if anything the rate of change is accelerating. Some say we may see the singularity as postulated by Vernor Vinge by 2035. After that? Well, things are going to get weird.
Happy Fun Ball is for external use only.
I think it's hilarious personally.
The guy has an absolutely un-photogenic face, bad teeth, and in the northwest to many is heralded as "the only good thing to ever come out of microsoft". About the only thing he's done that might anger people is piss off Eddie Vedder, but we all know how easy that is to do.
And while you all sit here in front of your computers, dreaming about all the great things you can do...
He's actually doing them.
Not that it requires money to do the great things you want to. Woz is a perfect example of that, but he's no GQ cover model, either.
(The F-bomb in the middle is silent.)
The board that Paul Allen has assembled sounds excellent, but one name was missing from the article. He has *got* to get Harlan on board. The man is not only entertaining as hell, but has a real passion for the history of SF. (Just don't let him hear you call it "sci-fi", or he'll rail at you about "skiffy".)
Like a huge SF library. Or he could buy a small publisher and reprint some of the really good books that are mouldering (figuratively speaking) on various authors backlists. Or bring back some authors that were writing really good original SF that were submerged in the glut of media-based offerings (not that media-based SF is inherently bad, but much of it is ironically pedestrian and repetitive, given that it is (in name) science fiction). Daniel Keyes Moran, anyone?
What this museum project on "literary science fiction" says to me is: "Not clear on the concept".
Floating face-down in a river of regret...and thoughts of you...