Tech in Media...........................

Hump day?......................



I really hate that title..."Hump Day" What was someone

thinking when they came up with that one? HUH? Obviously not kids..or immature guys like me. OK, I have the lame joke syndrome out of my system now. Have you seen AEON FLUX yet? It wasn't really too much like the old Liquid Television series, but it was full of future tech that had me drooling. Mainly the use of nano-tech. It got me thinking that the movie industry (or rather the writers for the movie industry) seem to be the tech worlds visionaries. Examples? Let's start way back to oh say the first Star Trek series ( I know EVERYONE cites this series in these discussions.) starring the venerable William Shatner as Captain James Tiberious Kirk. In this series filmed back in the late 60's there were a few technologies that appeared, but had yet to exist until recently.







Number one is the "communicator". On Star Trek, whenever a crew member needed to contact another member who was in a different location, they just whipped out their "communicator" flipped it open and voila placed a call.

These devices bear a striking resemblance to today's clamshell style cell phones.







Another thing that they had was the ability to locate a person anywhere on a planet so long as they were wearing their "badge" I dunno but it sounds a lot like GPS to me.











And now we get to modern day cinema, and in AEON FLUX we have the use of nanotechnology to usher in a new form of communication. Imagine taking a pill that contains a message. It works like this.







Everything that your brain processes is a series of electrical discharges between synaptic receptors. In essence, every thought,sight,smell,touch,taste etc. that you come in contact with is converted into an electric signal in your brain. To further elaborate, these electronic "signals" are pulsed, and if you think about it, if they are "pulsed" they can be seen as a binary signal. If you knew what you were doing you could create your own "signals" and place them in the correct areas of the brain to say; make someone "see" something that isn't there. Or maybe to make them feel something that isn't happening. Get the picture? It is only a matter of time before we could do these kinds of things. How cool would it be to be able to listen to a lecture, "see" a lecture just by say drinking a cup of tea infused with nano-bots that stimulated your brain into experiencing the lecture.



Kinda crazy too I guess!















[Listening to] Pharcyde - Passing me by.