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QC - The Movie
Tergon:
Still. My Dad did point something out to me a while back.
Y'know how in lots of old-school science fiction flicks or TV shows, there'd be the Holy MacGuffin of plot devices... Data Chips. A tiny, easy-to-lose handful of plasticy metal thingies that held the secrets that could save the entire country / world / galaxy / universe / multiverse. The heroes would spend the entire movie chasing these things down because of the precious data held on them, and the secrets they'd reveal, and how important it all was. And then they'd finally get them, and plug them into something, and this gigantic screen would show the recording of the precious Data and it would have such a big important influence on the plot. Remember that?
USB thumb drive and widescreen projector.
Not only does this fancy technology exist, it's so common that we find it mundane. I'm sorry, but that officially makes it the future.
Carl-E:
Yeah, but that was just an acknowledgement of where the tech was already going. The plot's just a rehash of a "book of secrets" plotline, where there's something in this one copy of an old book that's hidden away, or lost, or maybe it's the one person with the knowledge that needs to be rescued or found...
I'm NOT going to TVtropes this, but I know it's in there, somewhere. I've got grading to do.
I know we live in the future of our pasts, but I really wish it had that "gee whiz" sheen to it, ya know?
raoullefere:
I dunno. In the early nineties, when Hayes, one of the really big modem companies, damn near went belly up (I can't remember why), I asked a cutting edge networking guy why we didn't have wireless communications yet. He told me it was impossible, and then proceeded to list all the reasons why it would never be feasible.
You can now buy a web-browsing hand-held computer that you can carry, if not anywhere, than a rather lot of places and pull massive amounts of data onto the teeny screen (by the standards of the early 90's, when a comp-sci major told me that if I wanted unlimited storage for a PC my department was ordering, I needed a one Gigabyte drive [I think, may have been four], because I'd never fill that sucker up) without really thinking about it and with nary a wire in sight. You don't have to be Lt. Uhura or Spock, either; it's so easy absolute morons can do it.
If that's not gee-whiz enough for you, Carl, you've got higher standards than we'll probably ever live up to. If that's the case, I think you, to satisfy your lust for novelty, may need to be the one who volunteers to get teleported the first time.
The real problem with flying cars is that very few people seriously want them. If they did, we'd have them. Ditto for space exploration. But we love to yak mindlessly, lookit each other's images, and let one another know the instant we get married, get drunk, fall down, or fart, depending on our priorities. Thus, behold the smart cell-phone.
And with farts, I think I've almost got us back to the thread topic (only fair, since I derailed it quoting "The Electro Gypsy"). How many farts can the QC movie have and remain semi-tasteful, and how many can it not have and still be QC?
tomart:
--- Quote from: Tergon on 06 Sep 2010, 06:19 --- The heroes would spend the entire movie chasing these things down because of the precious data held on them, and the secrets they'd reveal, and how important it all was. And then they'd finally get them, and plug them into something, and this gigantic screen would show the recording of the precious Data and it would have such a big important influence on the plot. Remember that?
USB thumb drive and widescreen projector.
Not only does this fancy technology exist, it's so common that we find it mundane. I'm sorry, but that officially makes it the future.
--- End quote ---
One of the James Bond movies has the doomsday missiles' launch codes on a CASSETTE TAPE! which (Blofeld?) runs around with on an open-sea oil platform, I kept imagining the tape falling into the ocean or being roasted by the explosions or just getting dirt in it...
Very amusing. :lol:
tomart:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 06 Sep 2010, 09:30 ---1.) I asked a cutting edge networking guy why we didn't have wireless communications yet. He told me it was impossible, and then proceeded to list all the reasons why it would never be feasible.
2.) The real problem with flying cars is that very few people seriously want them. If they did, we'd have them.
--- End quote ---
1. I wanted to write a book full of those way off-base quotes by industry leaders, trend-predictors, etc, but I think it's been done... I forget the title, though.
2. I want one! Really! But I don't matter, I don't have $100,000 or whatever it would cost.
And I think there's probly other issues, like all the morons who'd crash em (drunk fliers!!) buzz their friends, etc etc. You think road accidents & traffic jams are destructive, disruptive?? Wait til millions of dolts are late for work (rush hour would have new worlds of pain) or cutting each other off, trying to get into (or out of) sports stadia, ... boggling.
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