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Your Face On the Big Screen
blamanj writes "In another case of SciFi becoming reality, you can now star in an animated film as your FutureCast (tm) face-scan is edited into the picture in real-time. John Brunner, in his Hugo-winning novel, Stand on Zanzibar predicted a similar development in television, lampooning people sitting at home while watching travologues of themselves 'on vacation.'
Brunner, in addition to being an excellent writer, had some spot-on predictions of a virus-laden Internet in Shockwave Rider. Fortunately, the predictions of his eco-dystopia The Sheep Look Up have not come to pass. Yet."
Estimated time to someone submitting a penis picture as their "face": 10 seconds and counting.
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Beer at full chug
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Haw haw! I can't believe they took it!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
There's a difference in how far a stalker goes with stuff like that. Stalkers can be real serious trouble. Sometimes, they ruin peoples lives. I know several people who have stalkers. Most of them say they have a stalker, and he's just a kinda creepy guy who hits on them. Most stalkers seem to be like that, just overblown. But real, serious stalkers are a whole different matter. Look into it a bit.
And, yeah, one photo won't work, with a current camera. With one of those laser based 3D modeling cameras, that might be another matter. Give it another twenty years or so.