The outrage shown by actors over digital actors (or synthespians as they are now known) in such films as Shrek and Final Fantasy only goes to show their ignorance of what is to come (also see Simone). This also shows that if some of these so-called well-informed and semi educated rich people can get angry about these simple creations, then the masses may react in an even worse way, if the next generation of A.I. systems, start making an impact in their job sector or more importantly their wallets. And once Hollywood realises that it doesn't have to pay millions for real actors because Digital Doubles can be re-faced and do an even better job than their expensive, unreliable and moody film star counterparts, then maybe actors will have to find a new career. Especially when you hear rumours, that directors like George Lucas, wouldn't have minded having no actors in his movies at all, just digital recreations. So it looks like the all digital Hulk or at least his programmers may have a better future, than most actors. It will never happen, I hear JLO fans cry, but go ask the silent movie stars, who didn't make it in the talkies?

Remember modern epics don't need hundreds or thousands of extras, a little CG can now fill in the gabs.

On the short sighted front, then I find it really funny when I see adverts for broadband, followed by news of movie and software companies screaming blue murder about online piracy, what did they think the masses where going to do, with all that extra bandwidth? It's the capitalist ideology gone mad, media moguls making billions, want you to get fibre optic into your home, but, then only want you to use it, to buy more of their services. There is another way to look at piracy, if Gates is willing to charge up to £150 for Windows XP home edition in the UK, then the question is, has this man / company, actually put in enough real work, to merit being paid  billions of the backs of the people, who have in effect had to do real work, so as to pay for it. Just remember, capitalism is not a bad system, except when it is being corrupted?

Piracy is also killing the music industry or so I hear, the question once again has got to be, does some no nothing teenager, have the right to put out a record, make a bundle and then retire early. Why should we support a system that say's that's ok. I think piracy is in some small way, a form of anti-capitalism, in other words, we aren't going to work, just to keep making these types of people richer, so we will pirate your stuff, until you also have to do some minimum wage job, just like most of us. I know, the kids don't make anything, its the record companies and producers, also if these people are so worried about piracy, then how come most of them are rich?

Then you read and see adverts saying that piracy hurts the little people in the movie industry, they even spend millions on advertising saying it's wrong, whilst paying actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger a reputed 30 million+ dollars to do T3. Here's an idea Arnie, take a pay cut and then go and feed some of the little people? The movie industry may soon face an even bigger piracy problem, as storage, cameras and the web are all continually upgraded, then the average kid, could have the equivalent of a multi-media server in their pocket. I can imagine pirates and kids going to the cinema and then streaming movies direct over the net, to their friends and colleagues. This is the future, companies will sell you hardware that will be capable of storing terabytes of  data, with HDTV resolution cameras onboard and  tons of bandwidth, then ask you not to copy anything illegal. This is about to get very silly, we need to turn away from the capitalist ideology and seek some new ways for us all to benefit and prosper from this technologies introduction. Otherwise we may start locking people up, for all the wrong reasons and a new society will be born into a technological nightmare, rather than utilizing this technology, to help bring about a better society. I'm not the only one who thinks like this, some judges and courts are also wising up to the fact, that locking people up for having a pirate copy of a song etc on their IPOD, is stupid. This may one day be seen, as a fundamental and philosophical change in how society deals with the introduction of certain new technologies, i.e. for the good of us all, rather than the few.

Wouldn't it be funny if they do change the law, about non-US citizens being able to run for presidency.

This could become a self fulfilling prophecy or as this ebook keeps pointing out, a society run by machines, with president Terminator himself, in charge of us all. Mind you, he has got to be better than the alternative or maybe not.

Just remember, Arnie, is from the same country that gave us Adolph, but I don't suppose we can't hold that against him?

He won California over, I keep thinking, how dumb can politics get and have the voters even watched pumping iron.

It feels like I'm coming all the time?

As the oracle said - what do all men with power want - more power?

Imagine if he does become President, imagine world leaders having to take this man seriously, in anything, other than in a physical sense?

FUTURE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, WITH ARNIE IN CHARGE, DID ANYBODY SEE COLLATERAL DAMAGE, LET'S TAKE OUT ALL THE TERRORISTS, HANG ON, SORRY THAT'S CURRENT US POLICY.

 JUST REMEMBER, ONE COUNTRY'S TERRORIST, IS ANOTHER COUNTRIES HERO?

HE SAID HE WILL NOT MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE, SHAME I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO DR.STRANGELOVE PART 2

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SHOULD I SAY

HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE A.I. ?

The public is now buying on mass portable net appliances equipped with MMS (Multi Media Messaging Service), in other words, camera equipped smartphones etc. Plus devices equipped with GPS / 3G / 4G /  W-CDMA / GPRS etc, which are connected to always on networks, this means that the public are now becoming willing participants in a surveillance state. The powers that be are probably laughing their socks off, I mean after all these years of having to divert taxpayers hard earned cash into paying for surveillance, here the public go and do it for them. Always on networks connected to millions of always on CCD cameras, whilst using facial recognition software, God criminals will have to find a new career and so will most of the police force, for that matter. After the terrorist attacks globally, New York, London etc, then the public will be easy to convince that this is a good thing. The big problem with this type of surveillance society is more long term, it could ultimately induce a form of paranoia within society that is not healthy. Interpol is also unifying its efforts to defeat global terrorism by allowing instant communications between all police databases worldwide?

Its strange to think, that in the near future there could be networks out there recording everything we do, our data shadows will be able to deliver very accurate profiling and on everybody. It's already happening (see the patriot act), but this is nothing compared to what is about to happen. So forget the RIP act, smart networks gathering targeted marketing data will mean that there will be no hiding place from every junk email marketer on the planet. Anyway do you remember in the old days, when people used to say things like, "where are you from", Liverpool, London, New York etc, followed by, "oh, by any chance do you know, John, Ste or whoever, lives down Kelsey street or 1st Avenue", etc. In the near future, smart networks could know each and everyone of us, personally, (very Minority Report also checkout RFID, the latest technology the public have become paranoid over.. Compared to what is to come, then the public obviously have no real clue as to where this is all leading.

The networks and smart devices of the future, may have a much greater situational awareness than any of us, just imagine all these new mobile web cams built into phones etc, all feeding back real time images into smart A.I. controlled networks. It will be like having, a couple of million eyes all watching and feeding back into the great machine. Of course it is all part of the move towards Mobile Commerce, this is were people will no longer carry money, they will just have a mobile device, which will transmit both their location and payment, to any local services or goods required etc. New online digital ID systems such as Microsofts .NET passport system and systems using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) show how the masses could be tracked and manipulated into becoming part of this corporate / state run society. Go to a bar, pay for a couple of drinks, it could all be recorded and in many ways, do it too much and not only will your bank know, but your employer may also find out? Camera equipped mobile devices, M-commerce + real-time tracking of everybody, bloody great, hype, hype, hype, sell, sell, sell, the human race is just so bloody stupid, the bigger picture is just terrifying, once you can truly see it. This is also why the powers that be, want everybody to get a bank account and join the cashless society, the black market dies and then only the real criminals, i.e. the corporations and the rich, can truly make any money on the side?

Imagine the future, when we can all get independent TV reports via the net, it may lead to some cool reports, imagine this, today the C.E.O. of some company paid himself 230 million dollars, oh yeah and some poor people died, because they couldn't afford some basic medicine. I wonder if the watchers will eventually become the watched, as we all tune into the truth?

Another curious thing will be when friends and family separated by distance can communicate via video links and in real-time, this is bound to be a  growth sector and will undoubtedly surpass text messaging. I just wonder how the industry will capitalise on this, and whether the authorities will monitor this traffic as well. Oh well, if they get smart A.I. systems to monitor all this traffic and they can implement their net plans globally, then at least it should hinder the people and organisations into asymmetric warfare?

Anyway I recently watched a TV program that showed a computer program that was capable of reading micro expressions; you know those little tell tale signs that give away when you’re lying. Apparently it’s being employed by some government agencies for their own purposes. So what happens if you employ this software in conjunction with an MNN type system? Let’s see now, everybody is hooked up to the web via their new net devices and everybody is using web cams, so if employed in the right way or the wrong way, then these government agencies and A.I. systems could ask you a question over the web, and then tell if you’re lying, spooky! Imagine people could use advanced realistic avatars and convince you that you where talking to a friend, when in fact you could be talking to an advanced A.I. interrogator, these could be used by all a sundry and for many purposes, its the spyware of the future.

Some insurers are now using lie detector technology in their call centers, if you try to make a false claim, then the software can tell, even if the human in the loop can't pick up on it. Now of course the machines can even interpret body movement, I think its time to start worrying (1984 style,) big brother really is watching. Oh well I suppose we could always use it in business deals or even better on our friends or partners, maybe lawyers could use it in court or on clients. Imagine a politician making a speech or in a debate and everybody has downloaded a copy of the latest lie detector software, all installed and ready to run on their brand new, grid equipped mobile phone and with the results and reactions being fed back in to the great, online public opinion poll, instant democracy, God where will it all end?

As I said this technology will affect everyone.

Was WMD an excuse or a lie, in the future we may all know, after all as the bible say's:-

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.?

The always on networks could be watching us all the time and possibly learning from us all the time, be scared, total surveillance is coming soon. I heard a startling statistic the other day, not sure if it's true, but I heard that there is now 1 surveillance camera for every 14 UK citizens?

The military have their own version of big brother, it's called combat zones which could be adapted for use in civilian surveillance. Although this could lead to a smaller police force, it may also in essence lead to more unemployment, adding to the chain reaction scenario. But for now, we have the google desktop?

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Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has confirmed the government is looking at introducing a pay-as-you-drive system of road tax, with satellite tracking being Whitehall's preferred way of monitoring the motoring habits of the UK

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