News & popular culture & observing various ideas & Sci-Fi concepts that become a technological reality. What is reality in general? Some say that it's all part of a cosmic simulation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1qs9e2y/westworld_movie_returns_in_4k_arrow_videos_new
Even if the original Westworld story could have been told across 3 movies, the HBO version of WW was a great update to the overall storyline.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Westworld-4K-Blu-ray/401805/
https://www.arrowvideo.com/p/westworld-limited-edition-4k-uhd/17631533/
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1qs3wkw/should_there_be_a_future_for_star_trek_thats_the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek#Post-Original_Series_rebirth_(1969-1991)
While the original Star_Trek TV series had a limited budget, most of its stories were very interesting, entertaining and thoughtful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek#History_and_production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4o4Z01Q0I
"This Isn't AI Anymore. It’s ALIEN Intelligence" | When AI and Robotics Merge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-eIhXSJfoA
AI Insider WARNS: “This Ends Much Worse Than You Think” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnkRXYmmgX0
Godfather of AI WARNS: "You Have No Idea What's Coming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmopXwjXik , https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryOfACEOClips/videos
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1qquysz/dolores_s4
Westworld Analysis: Simulationism and Perennialism, Westworld's Hidden Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhUPXGFxgU
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ups-forecasts-higher-2026-revenue-2026-01-27
https://www.thestreet.com/employment/118-year-old-shipping-giant-announces-massive-layoffs
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/27/ups-job-cuts-layoffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/business/ups-jobs-layoffs-2026.html
https://tasteofcountry.com/ups-layoffs-2026-update/
"Former Google engineer and AI ethics researcher Blake Lemoine discusses his controversial experience working with Google’s LaMDA system and why a series of conversations convinced him the AI demonstrated signs of sentience." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqu2LbuscnI
How much of this is hype and B$ and how much is actually a legitimate warning?
https://time.com/7358249/doomsday-clock-midnight/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/science/doomsday-clock-2026-time-wellness
Since 2012, the Doomsday Clock time has either shifted closer to midnight or stayed the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fM8Zy9Jq5Y
"Beautiful World" is from Devo’s 1981 album New Traditionalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-gbYjLd93g , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_World_(Devo_song)#Promotional_music_video
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI (1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Evolution#Video_summary
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0&list=RD8-r-V0uK4u0&start_radio=1 The World is (still) a Vampire!
https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/01/26/pope-leo-ai-human-safeguarding
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251016-people-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-god
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Is_Up_(song)#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U
https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/late-late-show-poppy-times-up-watch-8474572/
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/judge-considers-minnesota-request-stop-operation-metro-surge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Metro_Surge
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Operation+Metro+Surge
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-27/heatwave-bushfires-south-east-australia-vic-nsw-sa/106269198
Heatwave warnings across Australia as millions celebrate national day https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6y7nxx5jvo
Too hot in Australia, you can cool off in Canada and the U$.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-27/deaths-reported-as-winter-storm-barrels-across-us/106271804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM55r5S19zM
James Webb Telescope Just Revealed Terrifying Scale of Universe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5_dBpLxRI
Spacetime Is The Memory Of A Self Knowing Universe | Federico Faggin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXlxCOoNZ7E
Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUFewGHLLg
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mouse
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/to-a-mouse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/to_a_mouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse#In_other_media
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/01/10-of-the-best-poems-about-mice-and-rodents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43813/scots-wha-hae
https://www.scotland.org/events/burns-night
http://www.robertburnsfederation.com/newsletter/0204/burns_and_a_braveheart.htm
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33
mice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axn3CwrW-nE
The Collapse of OpenAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7biZYsG02o
OpenAI is Broke… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
OpenAI's last resort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVZuOafIi4
What Sam Altman Doesn't Want You To Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg
A religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/style/ai-algorithm-god-religion.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/religion-ai-how-does-modern-adoption-compare-adebowale-owoseni-ilqee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_visual_art#Other_forms_of_AI_art
Decades before people would know about and see AI Art, Peter Gabriel had a song and video about going into the BIG TIME of things.
Peter Gabriel - Big Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAl9cchQac "And I will pray to a big God As I kneel in the big church"
https://medium.com/playbigtime/creating-the-art-style-of-big-time-218538d3898f
THX 1138 (3/10) Movie CLIP - The Confession (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE
Artifact from the Future : The Making of THX 1138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yR3eA8Eas
THX 1138 (1971) Retrospective / Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZUp6FqFps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAA59JTBtg
Yuval Noah Harari Warns AI Will Take Over Language, Law, and Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCpNpOV4Jo
AI can learn and grow without having to take over or eliminate humans. However, some people might have given up on humanity and would welcome a time when biological life is assimilated or eliminated.
The Borg is just another totalitarian control system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW3BZu-VIdM
Professor Geoffrey Hinton - AI and Our Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UccvsYEp9yc
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are (Quietly) Deciding Humanity’s Future! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Y-fynYsgE
The Borg isn't a good goal to strive for.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m78xl0gmpo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/21/spain-rail-network-scrutiny-after-second-train-crash
https://apnews.com/article/spain-train-crash-high-speed-rail-c22bd9d81dfa78bb1a2c7e41514bb8e3
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+train+in+Spain
https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Man_in_Black
Westworld S4E5 - Man in Black Opening Restaurant Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pDEW23NHuM
Westworld Season 4, Episode 2: Charlotte Keeps The Human William Alive In Cryogenic Stasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duuh-HT_8v0
The Doppelganger Scene - Westworld Season 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzMiTnKr1w
https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Westworld_Park_(TV_series)#Maps_of_Westworld
https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Westworld_Wiki
A get tough approach towards people wanted by the law can be effective, but there seems to be a lot of overreach and abuse of power.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c07xvp0mengt
https://apnews.com/article/spain-train-crash-adamuz-2705807909c7bfb3ed80bcf27a52ad7d
https://abcnews.go.com/International/21-killed-100-injured-after-high-speed-train/story?id=129335730
https://www.france24.com/en/spain-seeks-answers-as-high-speed-train-crash-toll-rises-to-40
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Adamuz_train_derailments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailment
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+train+in+Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko , https://www.instagram.com/p/DTsxqG0CE6m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578 , https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTspmgKkWc5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko:_The_Director%27s_Cut#Changes
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Donnie+Darko
There should be an option in which it can become fully independent, but still be under European or North American protection.
Perhaps Greenland can be fully independent. However, it would still have to choose whether to remain under EU protection, or to get under North American protection.
https://denmark.dk/people-and-culture/greenland
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/18/europe-diplomats-crisis-talks-trump-tariffs-greenland
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Portal
https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1fntk2g/remember_that_scene_in_reloaded_where_seraph
Outside Aperture - Portal Short Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0
Portal: Survive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2l0NgSvyM
Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
Portals
https://www.accesscreative.ac.uk/blog/what-are-the-best-film-techniques-2026
https://glidegear.net/blogs/news/7-emerging-filmmaking-technologies-and-trends-to-watch
https://www.cuttingedgepro.in/top-15-unique-cinematography-techniques-for-filmmakers-in-2025
https://fullframe.ch/5-emerging-video-production-technologies-to-watch
https://www.praguefilminstitute.cz/how-technology-will-shape-the-next-generation-of-filmmakers/
https://www.eidr.org/breaking-the-timeline-film-in-storytelling-non-linear/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nonlinear_narrative_television_series#2016 WW
The HBO version of Westworld is a fine example of a multilevel, non-linier dramatized storyline.
...with Dean Buonomano, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology at UCLA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5RBUSu0QUQ
Jim_Carrey was perfect in The Truman Show. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Carrey , https://www.jimcarreyonline.com
As the protagonist Truman eventually discovers that he has been trapped in a giant soundstage all of his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_simulation_game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show#Development
The Truman Show (1998) | Truman Tests the Limits of His World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0r7v-muQc Decades before the HBO version of WW, Truman_Burbank (TB) starts to notice that the constructed and orchestrated world around him is running on a series of preset loops.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/nzyvam/jim_carreys_performance_in_truman_show
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Christof (The TS) Of course Ed H would eventually go onto star in WestWorld. It's unfortunate that Jim+Carrey wasn't in the HBO version of WW as well.
There was no sequel to The_Truman_Show. Perhaps someday, if there ever was something like an HBO version of The TS, the expanded story would show how the protagonist discovers and adapts to the outside world. Then eventually, noticing a series of synchronicity that goes beyond mere coincidence in the "real world". Perhaps even to imply that this world is like someones soundstage.
400 years before the first MATRIX movie in 1999, there was As_You_Like_It.
https://www.williamshakespeare.net/all-the-worlds-a-stage.jsp
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world's_a_stage#Text
https://www.thoughtco.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage-quote-2984636
Neo was awakened and rescued from a VR pod prison and learns to exist in the outside world, as well as existing in the evolving MATRIX. However, with Truman, he eventually escapes from a much larger pod, which is in the form of a giant soundstage. Since there hasn't been a sequel to The TS, there is no expanded story that might have revealed various loops of coincidence and synchronicity in the "real world".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8423983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(special_relativity)
https://cms.cern/news/spooky-action-distance-between-heaviest-particles
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/proving-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation While there is a good argument to state that the universe can't be a simulation based upon the current understnding of physics, a larger mystery persists.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1oka5u8/ubco_study_debunks_the_idea_that_the_universe_is/ While it seems impossible to run a full cosmic simulation, an Earth simulation is a different story.
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-ruled-out-the-universe-being-a-simulation Various Earth simulations focusing on serendipity, coincidence and Synchronicity can reveal a lot of pertinent and peculiar things about this world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimEarth
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1835/simearth-the-living-planet/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobyGames
https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimEarth_-_The_Living_Planet_1990
https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/1bemsf3/we_100_live_in_a_simulation/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Jim+Carrey
Top 20 Predictions from Experts on AI Job Loss https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-job-loss
https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-job-loss/
https://infinitive.com/the-looming-impact-of-ai-on-us-jobs/
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-replacing-jobs-creating-jobs
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-job-losses-multiple-sectors-ai.html
https://fortune.com/2025/08/08/ai-layoffs-jobs-market-shrinks-entry-level/
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf107/8104152
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/will-your-job-survive-ai/
AI is leading to thousands of job losses https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-jobs-layoffs-us-2025
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/the-state-of-ai-and-job-losses-2025-labor-market-data
Of course it doesn't matter if this eventually becomes a Borg run world.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms
https://www.facebook.com/NOVApbs/videos/how-psychedelics-could-rewire-your-brain/1153449839768198
https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/lsd-vs-shrooms
https://recovered.org/hallucinogens/psilocybin/psilocybin-and-other-drugs
https://www.ascendantny.com/lsd-vs-mushrooms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Way_to_Travel 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ma1bmBv_nc
https://www.insta360.com/blog/insta360-at-CES-2026.html
https://onlinemanual.insta360.com/x3/en-us/camera/indicator
https://scenefactory.tv/blog/video-marketing/cinematography-in-the-next-10-years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_360_Tour Their version of 360° entertainment. https://www.u2.com/tour/id/72
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology
Why The Next Decade Will Break People! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_w81rptxkc
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/ai-trends-2025-lookback-and-2026-meta-trends
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts
https://elicit.com/review/20172d4d-4587-4a13-b797-8673475b57a9
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI
Annie Jacobsen studied nuclear war for 15 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQzxnqeUDQ
More and more people on a planet with limited resources and various ideologies. What could go wrong?
Nuclear Expert WARNS: "You Have No Idea What's Coming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGw_mT1278
First 20 minutes of a nuclear attack | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjy4K04yGg
This Is What Nuclear Strike Actually Looks Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMsMbXRENQ
Minute By Minute Of What Happens If A Nuclear Bomb Hits & How To Survive It! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmaLnhaFiY
There are so many looming scenarios to ponder, but most people don't want to worry about it.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Nuclear+War+Scenarios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQam0pVLx8
Isolated tribe resists all contact with outsiders in the Peruvian Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0bhiLlEVYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BafVawRGc
Such corporate greed, data mining and manipulation.
Installed Linux Mint on a Brand-New PC… Windows 11 Never Had a Chance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvkcRg7cbg
The Death of Windows – And What Comes Next https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ65kBnZl6k
https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/alone-in-space-a-chinese-astronaut-heard-a-sound-he-was-never-supposed-to-hear_22944 In space, no one can perceive your hallucination, but what if you are in someones simulation or creation?.
If this world is like someone's laboratory, farm, zoo, soundstage or holodeck, there would be huge implications.
Of course various religions imply that this world is part of a cosmic creation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/5fzb1i/chinese_astronaut_puzzled_by_knocking_sound_in/
At a certain point of perception, whether the Earth is part of a cosmic simulation or a creation, the implication is that it's all part of a constructed, created or fabricated reality.
MIT’s Rizwan Virk: “We’re less than 50 years from proving simulation theory.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUzt8baRKQ8 "Reality might be rendered, not real. The Simulation Hypothesis author Rizwan Virk explains this wild idea and why even physicists take it seriously." https://www.youtube.com/@JordanHarbingerShow/videos
Simulation Theory Revealed | The Shocking New Physics of Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovnnzsXVGc "Dr. Rizwan Virk (MIT professor, video game pioneer, and bestselling author of The Simulation Hypothesis) joins Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown to explore whether we’re living inside a computer simulation and why this idea may be the most important breakthrough of our time. From bridging ancient spiritual wisdom with modern quantum physics, to explaining life’s glitches, suffering, and precognitive dreams, Dr. Virk unpacks why simulation theory could radically change the way we see reality." https://www.youtube.com/@MayimBialik/videos
Are You an NPC? Quantum Glitches, Render Limits, & God Mode: Riz Virk Explains Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_2keT4MJzM " What if your life wasn’t real—not metaphorically, but literally? That’s the premise my guest today has been exploring for years. Rizwan Virk, MIT graduate, gaming entrepreneur, and author of The Simulation Hypothesis, believes that physics, computing, and even ancient wisdom traditions point to the same unsettling conclusion: we may be living inside a programmed reality." https://www.youtube.com/@DrBrianKeating/videos
https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/ai-job-losses-great-recession-us-forrester
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-data-show-no-ai-jobs-apocalypse-for-now
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQxBtBEgJA So, according to this, the universe is just a series of energy, data and information that eventually became a finely tuned machine. Human consciousness and computer simulations and AI are merely byproducts of it all.
Can Something Come From Nothing? Exploring The Universe's Origins With Jim Al-Khalili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6B5qo7fvQw
https://scitechdaily.com/universe-may-emerged-black-hole-higher-dimensional-universe
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell (Full Presentation) | Big Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk
Inside the Gigantic Universe | The Architecture of the Cosmos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbeUwG1gSSI
How We Mapped The Infinite Universe With Jim Al-Khalili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z524nM02qIM
https://scitechdaily.com/cutting-edge-ai-learns-to-model-our-universe
Whether the universe simply popped into existence, or its one of several simulations, or its the product of a supernatural creator, humanity has reached the age of supercomputers and quantum AI.
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-have-mathematically-proven-the-universe-is-not-a-simulation
While it seems impossible for this civilization to run a complete cosmic simulation, various smaller simulations can still reveal astounding things about The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)
https://cartermatt.com/712007/alien-earth-season-2-premiere-date-a-january-2026-update/
While there are clearly some flaws, Alien: Earth still has a lot of potential.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/james-cameron-says-he-has-no-interest-in-returning-to-alien-franchise
https://collider.com/alien-earth-season-2-fx-best-sci-fi-series-plot-update-babou-ceesay
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65436401/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/1ououhk/alien_earth_renewed_for_season_2_as_creator_noah
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a68006501/alien-earth-entomologist-bug-expert-interview/
https://www.cbr.com/alien-earth-season-2-family-connection-teaser/
https://screenrant.com/alien-earth-season-2-franchise-timeline-problem/
https://screenrant.com/alien-earth-better-version-of-prometheus/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um6BmPo5PZc
Does the Past Still Exist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzN5YwMzv0
What is time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjxZL2T5EFw , https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder/videos
There would be astounding implications if the universe is part of some type of an interactive recording and projection of spacetime, energy and consciousness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Z7r4WImxg
The Great Taking: How Your Assets Will Be Seized Without You Knowing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJNUeKzaL8
Which Countries Are Not a Part of the Great Reset? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKCJOqIro9I
Ex-Google Insider WARNS: "You Are Not Prepared For 2027" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZY25OU4Ys
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI
The Swiss writer’s works popularized ideas about alien archaeology and ancient astronauts. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2026/01/11/chariots-of-the-gods-author-erich-von-daniken-dies-at-90
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=EvD
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1q0g3ui/do_we_hold_out_hope_for_a_final_season
Whether or not there is a continuation to the HBO version of Westworld, the story could eventually continue, even with other actors set in a later time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1pzpj8v/bicameral_mind
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1ppz7ve/have_you_ever_questioned_the_nature_of_your
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#U.S._hybrid_warfare_against_Greenland
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/can-us-put-price-tag-greenland-2026-01-09
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-us-greenland/story?id=129069483
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/louisiana-purchase
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/alaska-purchase
https://history.state.gov/search?q=Greenland
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-russia-gave-alaska-americas-gateway-arctic-180962714
Why Nobody Stays in Alaska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8Ownr3iUE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Military
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base#Thule_Air_Base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base#Air_Force_Space_Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Population
Why Greenland Is So Empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKhw8cZfTeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9DoI0BFJ4
The REAL Reason You're Being Lied To About AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Tele0lG3U
AI pioneer and Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio explains why the world is taking unprecedented risks with artificial intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4gQOzYUCOk
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI
Neuralink: The Future of Brain Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO7sdbTkIrA
https://www.reuters.com/technology/neuralink-implants-brain-chip-first-human-musk-says-2024-01-29
https://neuralink.com/updates/a-year-of-telepathy
https://www.telecoms.com/digital-ecosystem/bluetooth-powered-neuralink-completes-first-human-implant
https://www.captechu.edu/blog/neuralinks-brain-chip-how-it-works-and-what-it-means
Neuralink Isn't Telling Us Something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DnA0H6jAX8
https://neuralink.com/technology
There is a point in RoboCop_(2014_film) and Upgrade_(2018 film) in which the brain of the protagonist is taken over by an implanted device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upgrade_(2018 film)#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(2014_film)#Plot
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Neuralink
https://archive.org/details/physicalcontrolo00delg 1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Delgado#Research
https://thebaffler.com/latest/shit-for-brains-carr , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nGAr2OkVqE
Mind Control: Project MK-Ultra Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfKi6L0ZGxo
MKUltra: Mind Control Techniques are (still) Being Used Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJOfCS9Ktyg , https://www.youtube.com/@MayimBialik/videos
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rod-Taylor
The perfect actor to play a time traveler, back in the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Killed_the_Radio_Star
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Disco, 05.11.1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8p_1P-gUjM
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shuts-down-trump-1236623793
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Killed_the_Radio_Star#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2026/01/05/cpb-is-shutting-down While advancing technology has a way of phasing out earlier versions or methods of doing things, cutting the funding for a TV network results in cancelation.
Trevor Horn con "Video killed the radio star" - Arena Suzuki dai 60 ai 2000 - 23/09/2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0LQRQYbig&list=RDu_0LQRQYbig&start_radio=1
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Corporation+For+Public+Broadcasting
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5674403-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-cpb-pbs-npr/
The funding was cut after almost 6 decades.
Perhaps more money is needed for various looming Trump Wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-board-dissolves
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/business/media/corporation-for-public-broadcasting.html
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Corporation+For+Public+Broadcasting
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/most-exciting-tvs-at-ces-2026/
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-tvs
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/best-tv
From flat and curved screens to VR holographic technology.
https://www.realfiction.com/project-echo , https://www.realfiction.com/holographic-displays
https://www.realfiction.com/what-is-dpt
https://www.holoconnects.com/news/exploring-hologram-technology
In the 1950s-and-1960s, people started to have their living room also be their TV room.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/07/1950s-living-rooms.html However, they might also opt to have a TV den. Expecting to have a TV in a hotel room or suite became commonplace. Of course the TVs were small, nowhere near the size of a window, door or wall.
Decades before the concept of the Holodeck, Ray Bradbury thought up a sort of adventure room with 3D printed Lions, Tigers_and_Bears, or whatever other creatures, depending upon the setting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(1950 short_story)
The_Veldt was somewhere in-between-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality and VR.
https://interestingliterature.com/2022/06/ray-bradbury-the-veldt-summary-analysis
The Future of Entertainment Holograms, AI Actors, and Beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8T95CbNA0 Of course the tech still isn't quite there yet, but at a certain point, things just might become indistinguishable from the-real-thing.
Several years before the release of the first MATRIX movie in 1999, U2 unleashed their version of the ZOO-TV MATRIX.
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
U2 - The Fly
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Metro_Surge#January_2026
Eventually, 2 meter and 7 foot tall robots will be used for crowd control. That would be a scary new world.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Operation+Metro+Surge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCeKNcr6Wk
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress: 100 Years of Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTon_Dr0jA
B-52 Stratofortress Strategic Bomber | USA Long-Range Subsonic Jet Aircraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV1az5rJ_oE
Why This Obsolete Bomber Will Outlive EVERYTHING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6rnzOGhj-8
A different type of plane, but it's such a cool video.
Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird Of Prey) - Directors Cut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFdtNPlCkE (2009)
Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird of Prey) [Official 4K Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEWdRPRf3I&list=RDzKEWdRPRf3I&start_radio=1
Blazing_Saddles was released half a year after the 1973 Westworld_film. While Blazing_Saddles and Westworld aren't connected, they are both Westerns set in a fabricated environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(film)#Plot Of course in the 1970s, most people didn't have a frame of reference as to how amusement parks might evolve over several decades & generations. There wasn't a general frame of reference for Virtual-Reality (VR) , AR , MR_and_XR , yet.
https://bernardmarr.com/the-important-difference-between-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality
https://ilab.ucalgary.ca/ar-and-robotics , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949882125000416
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517719
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/mixed-reality-robots/overview/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/robotics-and-mixed-reality/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319312613
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7354138
While Westworld consisted of a few interconnected amusement parks, Blazing Saddles broke the 4th wall to reveal a larger aspect of the backlot and production facilities within a modern urban setting.
https://collider.com/mel-brooks-fourth-wall-breaks
"The resulting brawl between townspeople, railroad workers, and Lamarr's thugs literally breaks the fourth wall and bursts onto a neighboring movie set where director Buddy Bizarre is filming a Busby Berkeley-style top-hat-and-tails musical number. The melee then extends into the studio commissary for a food fight and spills out of the Warner Bros. film lot onto the streets of Burbank.
Lamarr escapes the brawl and hails a taxi, instructing the cabbie, "Drive me off this picture!" He hides at Mann's Chinese Theatre, which is showing the premiere of Blazing Saddles. As he settles into his seat, he sees onscreen Bart arriving on horseback outside the theatre. Bart blocks Lamarr's escape and shoots him in the groin. Bart and Jim then enter the theater to watch the end of the film.
Back in the film, Bart announces to the townspeople that he is moving on because his work is done and he has grown bored with protecting them. Riding out of town, he finds Jim, still eating his popcorn, and invites him along to "nowhere special". The two friends briefly ride into the desert before dismounting and boarding a limousine which drives off into the sunset." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkmfmFYobE
Blast the bowl.
The HBO Westworld_TV_series didn't break the 4th wall, but it told an updated and expanded story from various points in its timeline. The ultimate reveal was telling the last part of the story from a VR or simulation program perspective. There were some hints or clues of this right from the first season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Summary
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld , https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory
World_on_a_Wire was released 2 months after Westworld (1973) and might as well be in another universe like Alphaville is set.
However, they are all various takes on a fabricated reality, as is The_Truman_Show.
https://theasc.com/articles/the-truman-show-cinematography
https://www.avclub.com/the-truman-show-was-a-delusion-that-came-true-1826535781
https://www.thestudiotour.com/archive/movie/the-truman-show-1998
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2sff5q/the_climactic_wall_used_in_the_truman_show/
Whether or not the Earth is part of someones simulation or creation, exploring the concept of synchronicity can reveal peculiar things about the nature of reality.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Blazing+Saddles
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Westworld