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The Future: A Look Back
If you enjoyed my coverage last month of the Futures of Entertainment Conference at MIT, heads up: The organizers are now putting videos of the sessions online. Henry Jenkins' opening talk is here, and the first panel, on the future of television, is here; to see the rest as they're posted, keep checking here.
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|12.14.06 @ 10:53AM|#
In the future, the entire entertainment industry will be reduced to one product--an interactive, full-immersion virtual reality experience involving the libertarianally named Salma Hayek.
ChrisO|12.14.06 @ 12:08PM|#
The words "entertainment" and "MIT" in the same sentence. That's some funny shit, right there.
Pro Libertate, that was one of my biggest complaints about Star Trek: The Next Generation. We all know that the holodeck would have been used for one purpose only...
|12.14.06 @ 12:14PM|#
Yes, DS9 was much more honest about that point. Of course, once holodeck technology is perfected, no one will leave their house, and humanity will come to a sad, albeit pleasurable, end.
|12.14.06 @ 4:28PM|#
And humanity will be ready to be enslaved by my invading hordes of supermen!