No Data Source

This movie like Blade Runner before it, takes us a step beyond. Throw in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World where a machine that can read our dreams falls into the wrong hands, and you have yourself a very compelling & intriguing story. But this is more than that.

Taken just for it’s visual mastery would win it awards in my book, with one image flowing into the next faster than you can follow it. It flows like a real dreamscape, but more vivid. The psychedelic influence is in evidence, as are the architypes that are the psyche of Japan.

It is cyberpunk in it’s ideas of the future, of a technology that may read our thoughts, our dreams, allowing us to first play them back and recall, then change and manipulate them until eventually dream and reality collide, and no one knows where one ends and the other starts.

This movie is ahead of it’s time.

Jaron Lanier is one of a handful of thinkers who grok the Kurzweil concepts, yet maintain a healthy skepticism…

In this edge.org piece
Digital Maoism he talks about online collectivism, a la wikipedia and related sites. He explains that this is not like representative democracy or meritocracy, as all opinions, and all ideas carry equal weight, for bad or worse…

You all better get your ass on top of Quetzalcoatl, or at the very least, read Pinchbecks new novel.

BTW, just found out how to pronounce that. It’s something like KATE-ZEL-KWAT.

Interesting Southeast Asian mythology talks of a spirit called a Toyol. The spirit is used for mischief, and no-good, and they sometimes explain disappearing money, or other valuables. Use needles to ward them off, since they’re afraid of needles.

Thanks Noorin.