Posted on by Mark Alexander

Film Short

While this is purely fiction, I know this is where we're headed technologically and as a society. And this is also where I draw the line and the old man in me stands up and says, "I've had enough. Stop the world, I want to get off."

At the same time, I know beyond all doubt that future generations will think no more of this tech and welcome it into their lives the way we have welcomed cell phones.

In fact, this reminds me very much of The Reality Dysfunction. This type of tech was commonplace.

BTW, if you love hardcore SciFi, I would definitely recommend the book (the first in a trilogy). It's extremely violent and bloody, but the story is completely enthralling.

3 Replies to “Film Short”

  1. LOVE LOVE LOVE, the Reality Dysfunction trilogy from Peter Hamilton! I've read it twice and have been thinking I need to read it again. Some stories are definitely worth the repeat, and this is one of them.

  2. From the late Douglas Adams:

    1) everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal;

    2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

    3) anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

    I find myself getting more and more in the #3 every day….

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