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Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle

Posted by chrisd on from the number-two-loves-number-one dept.

ctar writes "You couldn't ask for a more appropriate or schizophrenic slashdot story...The NYTimes online was the only one carrying the story according to Google News, so this is all you get."

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  1. Why Seattle? by confused+philosopher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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  2. Fergudsakes... by EverDense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. Re:Shrine? Bah. by ces · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:Nice Teeth by Erik+Hollensbe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.