I can see it now; the uber-paranoid buffoons who are our network admins will be in a rush to hire "war-eyers" (kudos to keraneuology for the word) to shut down any "security problems". I guess it would be a bit of a security problem, like going into "photography-prohibited" areas, password stealing, and such. Wait...this sounds like a new breed of hacker!
Read Speaker for the Dead (sequel to Ender's Game) by Orson Scott Card. Ender's stepson, Olhado, has these cool augmented (read: cybernetic) Silver Eyes that he uses to record everything and download to his hard drive. Imagine how cool that would be! Look out MPAA, I'm going to the theater and doing an eye-upload to the net! Come on, I know they're low, but how they prosecute a guy with a legitimate, medical prosthesis?
Einstein's role in the patent office was to check the scientific validity of the patent in question. For example, if some random Joe Schmoe with a third-grade education, walks in with an idea for an engine that runs on unobtainium, will the process involved violate the second law of thermodynamics? Having to think deep and prove people wrong sometimes is what made Einstein the individual we read about today.
If you read Ender's Shadow, Bean sees the immediate aftermath and notes that it is the headbutt to the nose that does the final deed to Bonzo. In regard to previous posts, Ender (introspectively) does NOT want to cause extreme harm to either Stilson (the first bully) or Bonzo. He justifies that he must totally destroy them as a threat to keep the mob of kids (that both bullies brought to the fight) from jumping in after their leader went down. Sure you can say his justification was programmed in by his sadistic brother, Peter, and his Battle School training; but I still think he was merely thinking logically.
I had read here that the movie is also going to be based on Ender's Shadow. Any part of an Ender movie that has Julian Delphiki (aka 'Bean') in it is going to require that the audience have privelege to some of the things in Bean's head. A cheesy voice-over might not cut it. I agree this will be a difficult movie to write at best. Kudos to OSC for not wanting to produce a "watered-down" version of it.
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I can see it now; the uber-paranoid buffoons who are our network admins will be in a rush to hire "war-eyers" (kudos to keraneuology for the word) to shut down any "security problems". I guess it would be a bit of a security problem, like going into "photography-prohibited" areas, password stealing, and such. Wait...this sounds like a new breed of hacker!
Read Speaker for the Dead (sequel to Ender's Game) by Orson Scott Card. Ender's stepson, Olhado, has these cool augmented (read: cybernetic) Silver Eyes that he uses to record everything and download to his hard drive. Imagine how cool that would be! Look out MPAA, I'm going to the theater and doing an eye-upload to the net! Come on, I know they're low, but how they prosecute a guy with a legitimate, medical prosthesis?
Einstein's role in the patent office was to check the scientific validity of the patent in question. For example, if some random Joe Schmoe with a third-grade education, walks in with an idea for an engine that runs on unobtainium, will the process involved violate the second law of thermodynamics? Having to think deep and prove people wrong sometimes is what made Einstein the individual we read about today.
If you read Ender's Shadow, Bean sees the immediate aftermath and notes that it is the headbutt to the nose that does the final deed to Bonzo. In regard to previous posts, Ender (introspectively) does NOT want to cause extreme harm to either Stilson (the first bully) or Bonzo. He justifies that he must totally destroy them as a threat to keep the mob of kids (that both bullies brought to the fight) from jumping in after their leader went down. Sure you can say his justification was programmed in by his sadistic brother, Peter, and his Battle School training; but I still think he was merely thinking logically.
I had read here that the movie is also going to be based on Ender's Shadow. Any part of an Ender movie that has Julian Delphiki (aka 'Bean') in it is going to require that the audience have privelege to some of the things in Bean's head. A cheesy voice-over might not cut it. I agree this will be a difficult movie to write at best. Kudos to OSC for not wanting to produce a "watered-down" version of it.