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Michael Sippey in theobvious.com

July 2, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Michael Sippey in theobvious.com

makes the important point in his short article on Spielberg’s Minority Report: Why Spielberg’s Vision is Flawed. It was a fun movie, but the future it portrayed was deeply flawed. I’m no sci-fi genius, but a story like that begins from the proposition that the future portrayed is a probable (or possible) extension of today. This is pretty clearly not the case, even for the many efforts to do so throughout the film. Sippey puts it well: “…Minority Report is not a networked future. Spielberg’s vision of the future is, essentially, television writ large, with a frosty layer of ‘Hello, ‘ sprinkled on top.”

Tags: Arts

It is with great pleasure

July 2, 2002 by Michael Boyle

It is with great pleasure


that I announce that we will shortly become the guardians of a very lovely puppy who will grow in due time into an adult female dog. This fact will doubtless prompt me to offer my own banal anecdotes from time to time.

The Register

July 2, 2002 by Michael Boyle

The Register

is but one of many who are commenting on the new EULA that comes with a security patch issued by Microsoft the other day. Thomas C Greene writes in this piece: “What they feed you may be infected with viruses; it may break your applications, corrupt data files, destroy weeks or months or even years of work, but you’ll have no recourse if it does.”

Tags: Data, Microsoft, Security

Cautionary words

July 2, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Cautionary words

from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who’s certainly qualified to serve in that role. In a long, thoughtful blog entry he reports on the barrage of nasty email he receives daily, hourly, from the hard-core right. He says, “…[it] makes you wonder, for the first time in your life, even including the years of Reagan and Bush the elder, if this country is actually, literally, genuinely headed for something more frightening than you’d ever thought possible.”

Tags: US Politics

Uh oh!

July 2, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Uh oh!

Ed Bilodeau is contemplating the freedom he’d have if he didn’t keep his website again. This surely means that he’ll leave us only his archives at a new location for a couple of months until he starts republishing his (always excellent) weblog again. Heh.

Tags: Blogging

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