[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:23:32 -0500
Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:32:15AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > > Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons", perhaps?
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
> > Amazing! That story is from 1951, which means that you must have 
> > slogged through a lot of scifi, covering over 40 years of output... you 
> > must also be the expert on Sturgeon's Law as well.
> 
> Actually it was just semi-fresh in my mind because of the tie-in with 
> Judge's "Idiocracy" movie recently.  
> 
> Speaking of sci-fi, I picked up Gibson's "Sprawl Trilogy" again last
> weekend ("Neuromancer", "Count Zero", "Mona Lisa Overdrive") and re-read
> them.  I think they're even better now than they were when I first read
> them in the late 80s.

I always hoped someone would make a really good movie that stuck to the
book's storyline.

The only movie I've ever seen that showed the scenario clearly was "Blade
Runner".  Gibson says that movie captured the image he had in his own mind of
the city in his books.

 
-- 
shannon           | That which is overdesigned, too highly specific,
                  | anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome
                  | garantees, if not failure, the absence of grace. 
                  |        -- William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties