I wonder, is the Matrix replacing Star Wars as our great "moderm" myth?
Definately. If you asked the average person what the biggest ongoing event in the world was when Star Wars first premiered, they would tell you the Cold War. If you asked them now, I believe the most popular answer would be the Internet.
As such, Star Wars was a Cold War movie. Two sides, good versus evil, us against the evil empire.
The Matrix is good versus bad in our modern thinking; it ties the conflict into technology.
I'm going to have have to take the nutty philosophy card here.
All language is inherantly flawed in trying to express abstract concepts, even in a fairly limited set of concepts, as is true within a given programming language. This inherent flaw just becomes more obvious to you and me when we objectively see a language implemented, as with computers.
Fortunately for us, human brains are to the level where we are --for the most part-- able to filter out flaws. Computers can't do this, thus they crash.
I've actually been using a bit torrent implementation for a few weeks now. The folks over at Digipatch use bit torrent to move really big (1.1 GB and up) SHN and other lossless recordings of live music around.
My overall review: a good idea. I felt like I was contributing a lot of bandwidth, and not getting that much in return. Download speeds never got over 20 kbps. This could easily be fixed when more clients join the network. But hey, I got some good Gov't Mule and Dead shows that I would have never gotten off Kazaa.
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Sounds like a variation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
I'm more well versed in philosophy, so I was thinking more in line with H. L. A. Hart and the No Dogs in the Park example.
Fuck you. Proves my point. Listen to George Carlin's talk on the word 'fuck' and hear its many definitions/uses.
I wonder, is the Matrix replacing Star Wars as our great "moderm" myth?
Definately. If you asked the average person what the biggest ongoing event in the world was when Star Wars first premiered, they would tell you the Cold War. If you asked them now, I believe the most popular answer would be the Internet.
As such, Star Wars was a Cold War movie. Two sides, good versus evil, us against the evil empire.
The Matrix is good versus bad in our modern thinking; it ties the conflict into technology.
This could bring about see-through screens like those in Minority Report.
Yeah, those were alright, but the ones in the Matrix II, in the Zion Central Control shot (white room, white people, white clothes) were way better.
I'm going to have have to take the nutty philosophy card here.
All language is inherantly flawed in trying to express abstract concepts, even in a fairly limited set of concepts, as is true within a given programming language. This inherent flaw just becomes more obvious to you and me when we objectively see a language implemented, as with computers.
Fortunately for us, human brains are to the level where we are --for the most part-- able to filter out flaws. Computers can't do this, thus they crash.
I've actually been using a bit torrent implementation for a few weeks now. The folks over at Digipatch use bit torrent to move really big (1.1 GB and up) SHN and other lossless recordings of live music around.
My overall review: a good idea. I felt like I was contributing a lot of bandwidth, and not getting that much in return. Download speeds never got over 20 kbps. This could easily be fixed when more clients join the network. But hey, I got some good Gov't Mule and Dead shows that I would have never gotten off Kazaa.