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11 Feb 2010

Don't go in there 4: Ghost in the Machine



You wouldn't think that a place like Hollywood, considering how much technology they need to make a blockbuster, would have such a luddite perspective on these things. But apparently, every type of new technology is going to kill, maim or embarrass you. You can't even make a phone call without them tracking you, except when you're the killer, then you can't be tracked, because of string of nonsense that doesn't even resemble real life problem. Technology can do whatever you want it to do in the movies, and apparently the public want it to make their lives incredibly dangerous and absurd. Or embarrassing. The number of films where a relationship blossoms online belies real world figures, but it does indicate that writers know how to recycle the plot from Cyrano de Bergerac. Here's a great NPR story about the guy who makes the flash graphics for fake hollywood computers.

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