And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Put them in Chicago, Baltimore or Detroit and have computer generated shootouts. Put them in San Francisco and have computer generated flash mobs looting various high-end shops.
If they had a camera installed that captured your facial imagine and converted it in real time so that when you looked out the window it would show you initiating a drug deal with a dealer and the thugs show up and give you both a smackdown and haul you off to the hoosegow and the video would be used as evidence against you in the trial.
We are all to rapidly approaching this nightmare. It’s already possible to map a computer generated moving image clone of your face onto another moving image - and to assemble conversations never spoken by taking bits and pieces (phonemes) of previous speech. In short - it’s possible to make a video of ‘you’ doing and saying things that never happened. Scary thought, eh?
Put them in Chicago, Baltimore or Detroit and have computer generated shootouts. Put them in San Francisco and have computer generated flash mobs looting various high-end shops.
ReplyDeleteThat was cool. I liked the octopus arm and the tiger the best.
ReplyDeleteIf they had a camera installed that captured your facial imagine and converted it in real time so that when you looked out the window it would show you initiating a drug deal with a dealer and the thugs show up and give you both a smackdown and haul you off to the hoosegow and the video would be used as evidence against you in the trial.
ReplyDeleteWe are all to rapidly approaching this nightmare.
DeleteIt’s already possible to map a computer generated moving image clone of your face onto another moving image - and to assemble conversations never spoken by taking bits and pieces (phonemes) of previous speech. In short - it’s possible to make a video of ‘you’ doing and saying things that never happened.
Scary thought, eh?