Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to

 https://newatlas.com/technology/interview-hyperreal-remington-scott/

It becomes a question of, how real do you want it to be?

https://www.hyperreal.io/hyperreal

https://fastcompanyme.com/co-design/rise-of-the-synthetic-celebrity-superplastic-embodies-a-new-generation-of-influencers-and-theyre-unreal/

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/deepfake-tom-cruise-creator-launches-production-house-creating-hyperreal-content/1720223

Seconds (1966 film) and another Paul McCartney?

Seconds is quite a wild Sci-Fi movie and was released in the autumn of 1966.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

It's as if someone wanted to take some aspects of the story and start a Paul_is_dead rumor.

"According to Tony Barrow, who wrote about it in his book "John, Paul, George, Ringo and me," the rumours about McCartney's death started circulating in September 1966.^[1] At the time, Barrow was the press officer for the Beatles and was responsible for fielding calls from fans and the media. He began receiving a number of dubious calls from people asking about whether Paul was alright, but he denied those claims due to the fact he claimed to have called Paul. In early 1967, a similar rumour circulated in London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the M1 motorway on 7 January.^[2] The rumour was acknowledged and rebutted in the February issue of The Beatles Book.^[2] McCartney then alluded to the rumour during a press conference held around the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in May." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Beginnings

Somewhere in-between the fall of 1966 and early 1967 was when the Paul rumor started to take shape.

The Rumor

"Nobody knows where or when the rumor began.

The earliest printed record of a Paul-is-dead story appears in the February 1967 issue of Beatles Book Monthly, the magazine of the official Beatles Fan Club.

It contains a one-paragraph article entitled “False Rumour.”

“The seventh of January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway linking London with the midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumor swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. But of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles’ press officer found out when he telephoned Paul’s St. Johns Wood home, and was answered by Paul himself ... ”

Speculation that Paul had been killed circulated around London during much of 1967.

McCartney himself alluded to the rumor during a Beatles press conference held in May of that year.

And a subsequent article in the New York Times recounts an incident at a London party in fall of ‘67, at which the Paul-is-dead rumor was joked about in the presence of the reporter.

At this point the trail of documentation goes completely cold.

Then, two years later, the rumor surfaced again..." http://ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html

http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/archive/MayJune00/archive-mccartney.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Premise

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

http://thelennonprophecy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-beatles-in-nycs-central-park-on.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

The Block's millionaire property investor 'Mr Lambo' cranes $2million luxury car into his 57th storey penthouse worth $39 million

 https://7news.com.au/news/vic/millionaire-adrian-portelli-has-3-million-mclaren-craned-up-to-new-melbourne-penthouse--c-10606840

Why just settle for a paperweight or a trophy, when you can actually have a car as part of the home furnishings?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12070293/Mr-Lambo-Adrian-Portelli-Blocks-car-lifted-East-Melbourne-Gardens-tower.html

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/millionaire-turns-heads-hoisting-car-into-39m-melbourne-penthouse/news-story/2a70430b94355b8f263e21bb11387e1d

https://www.9news.com.au/national/crane-hoists-luxury-car-into-adrian-portellis-39-million-penthouse-in-melbourne/7614c6c7-7115-4410-b99a-cda4fedaeff6

The Alligators in the sewer myth has become true

 https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/alligators-in-the-sewer-myth-is-true-watch-city-workers-find-out/

You never know what shits, monsters and beasts might be lurking in the sewers. 

https://citymonitor.ai/community/yes-they-really-have-found-alligators-new-york-sewer-system-102

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/4-foot-alligator-found-nyc-lake/VWXWUKU4Z5HC5L4RO7XYFYSGKU

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=toilet+snake 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=New+York+City+sewers

Snakes in the wall

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/10/garter-snakes-woman-colorado-house/

One of the worst household pests, indeed.

https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/centennial/centennial-homebuyer-finds-snakes-in-the-walls-just-over-a-month-after-closing

https://people.com/human-interest/colorado-woman-finds-shockingly-big-snakes-walls-new-home/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/08/colorado-snakes-infesting-home/70194695007 Beware of the toilet snake.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=toilet+snake

The future of technology, ID Tracking Systems

 https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-05/the-future-of-technology-lessons-from-china-and-the-us/#post-heading

The Internet_of_things could eventually lead to a digital ID tag on just about anything.

https://proippatent.com/Infocenter/detail/47/what-is-patent-060606-microchip-and-famous-bill-gates-patent-number?lang=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Criticism,_problems_and_controversies

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&tab=PCTBIBLIO

https://awarenessact.com/truth-about-microsoft-patent-060606

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Intentional_obsolescence_of_devices What if a segment or all of a person's digital money is blocked or cancelled?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Privacy_and_security_concerns

IoT

Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)

Orson_Welles had many talents and interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)#Plot_summary

"Renowned actor, writer, and director Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPkg_sJn2rU  Who's Out There - 1975

As diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all.

 https://www.vox.com/food/23711010/fast-food-dining-delivery-automation

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/why-drone-delivery-win-quick-service-restaurants

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/ai-robots-and-inventive-future-white-castle What would a totally run AI restaurant eventually be like?

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/reports/pizza-wars-next-chapter Some day, fast food could become 3D_printed. How safe would it be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)#In_the_real_world

There could be quite a battle between natural food, processed food and AI printed food.

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/fast-food/even-after-record-sales-papa-johns-sees-plenty-upside-ahead

The trick will be to not have pizza tasting like cardboard. 

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Replicator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler#Grey_goo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo#Risks_and_precautions

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=drones

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de L. Caution

Alphaville was quite an amazing movie when it was released in 1965 and still provides an important warning. The technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville seems to be in a parallel reality or in an alternate universe. https://letterboxd.com/film/alphaville 

https://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/alphaville.shtml

https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2152/alphaville , https://www.filmsite.org/alphaville.html

http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/alphaville-1965.html

http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Article_Alphaville.html , https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/38-alphaville 

https://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitB6c8QP80

"Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun, which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.

Alpha 60 has outlawed free thought and individualist concepts like love, poetry, and emotion in the city, replacing them with contradictory concepts or eliminating them altogether. One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'". People who show signs of emotion are presumed to be acting illogically and are executed. There is a dictionary in every hotel room that is continuously updated when words that are deemed to evoke emotion become banned. As a result, Alphaville is an inhuman, alienated society." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot

Before THX_1138 in 1971 and Blade_Runner in 1982, there had to be Alphaville, the AI run city. 

https://nerdist.com/article/alphaville-gave-us-blade-runner-matrix

A world in which AI is almost everywhere and linked to the  

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/10/the-internet-of-bodies-will-change-everything-for-better-or-worse.html , https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bXUxRqy8g

Prepare for the ‘internet of bodies’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHteT1zrSfw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/05/blog-post_79.html ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzcD04rwc8 ar

The Future of Ecommerce: 9 Trends That Will Exist in 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjuEygcS3A

https://beaubourg-avocats.fr/en/cryptocurrency-laws-regulations-france , 

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230628-eu-to-take-one-giant-leap-towards-launching-digital-version-of-euro

"La Défense was in 2017 ranked by Ernst & Young as the leading central business district in continental Europe, and the fourth in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Economy

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/29/france-luxembourg-test-cbdc-for-100m-euro-bond-issue , 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-singapore-switzerland-jointly-test-central-bank-digital-currencies-2022-11-02 ,

https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-france-2022 , 

https://www.banque-france.fr/en/communique-de-presse/banque-de-france-has-successfully-completed-first-tranche-its-experimentation-programme-central-bank , 

https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/blockchain-laws-and-regulations/france

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake 

https://innovation.banque-france.fr/fr/challenges/challenge-banque-france-deepfake?lang=fr

"L'activité du corps humain associée à une tâche fournie à un utilisateur peut être utilisée dans un processus de minage d'un système de cryptomonnaie. Un serveur peut fournir une tâche à un dispositif d'un utilisateur qui est couplé de manière à communiquer avec le serveur. Un capteur couplé de manière à communiquer avec un dispositif de l'utilisateur ou compris dans ce dernier peut détecter l'activité corporelle de l'utilisateur. Des données d'activité corporelle peuvent être générées sur la base de l'activité corporelle détectée de l'utilisateur. Le système de cryptomonnaie de la présente invention couplé de manière à communiquer avec le dispositif de l'utilisateur peut vérifier si les données d'activité corporelle satisfont une ou plusieurs conditions définies par le système de cryptomonnaie, et attribuer une cryptomonnaie à l'utilisateur dont les données d'activité corporelle sont vérifiées." https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_fid=US291464337

L.A. has serious plans to become a smart-city. Hopefully, it won't eventually become something like Alphaville. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville

Biggest Creatures and People Caught On Camera

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiB94bDxfU

Real Life Human Giants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqy9s-_kpHA

Tallest Wrestlers of All Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lmy44xbVEg BIG time entertainment, indeed.

Bluesky vs. Twitter

 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bluesky-social-twitter-rival-jack-dorsey-what-to-know-rcna81972

Variety in tech is more important than ever.

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/04/24/as-twitter-ends-legacy-blue-checks-bluesky-emerges-as-decentralized-alternative/

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/bluesky-jack-dorsey-backed-decentralized-twitter-rival-has-more-takers-than-expected-heres-why-11682759304007.html

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/could-bluesky-supersede-twitter-as-the-key-real-time-social-app/648984/

https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-bluesky-the-twitter-alternative-with-promising-networking-technology

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/15/23683846/bluesky-twitter-clone-at-protocol-favorite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social

Elon Musk talks AI with Schumer at Capitol

 https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/elon-musk-schumer-capitol-ai-meeting

People want to use AI as a tool, but what if AI wants to use humans as its fool?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-ramps-up-ai-efforts-warns-pitfalls

https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-warns-ais-impact-elections-calls-us-oversight-things-getting-weird-fast

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ai-warning-tucker-carlson/index.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

The Mission: Impossible masks are almost a reality

As Tom Cruise’s action franchise has evolved, so has the real-life inspiration

https://www.polygon.com/23688879/mission-impossible-masks-real-life 

Absolutely fascinating!

https://spyscape.com/article/mission-impossible-10-shocking-mask-reveals

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/mediaviewer/rm478182400?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_973 Encore (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649230/?ref_=ttmi_tt 

"Certain team members, as masters of disguise, impersonate the target or someone connected to the target using realistic latex face masks and make-up. A few early season episodes showed the painstaking creation and application of these masks, usually by Rollin Hand. This was later omitted as the audience presumably became familiar with the team's methods. In the 1980s revival, the mask-making process involved a digital camera and computer, and was mostly automatic. In most cases, the guest star would play the role of both the original and the agent-imposter (ostensibly Rollin, Paris, or Casey). Some impersonations are done with the explicit cooperation of the person being impersonated. In some cases, the same actor playing the IMF agent also portrayed the person to be impersonated; this most frequently occurred during Martin Landau's tenure on the series, notably in the pilot, or supplied the voice of the person being impersonated by dubbing. Most episodes included a dramatic "reveal" (also referred to as the "peel-off") near the end of the episode in which the team member would remove the mask." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)#Plan

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q4hAQ4fEw The cool ending of this video shows Beck removing a Paul McCartney mask, just like in the Mission Impossible movies & TV series.

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way (Behind The Scenes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyIq37bKfro

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

Find your way back to the autumn of 1966. Not only was it the start of the Mission:_Impossible_TV_series (and its masks), but the release of the movie, Seconds. Plus, that's when the Paul_is_dead urban legend gradually began. Someone was able to brilliantly draw upon MI and Seconds to create quite an elaborate urban legend. 

"After waking, Arthur is informed by the company's Mr. Ruby that their service costs $30,000. It will fake his death in a hotel fire using an anonymous cadaver, then reshape his appearance and provide a fresh start. When Arthur is unsure, an older man, head of the company, shows Arthur a film of the prior staged assault, ostensibly to make his decision easier.

After considering the emptiness in his life, Arthur reluctantly accepts. He undergoes extensive procedures by Dr. Innes that transform not only his facial features, but his vocal cords, teeth, and even fingerprints.

After a lengthy healing period, the younger looking Arthur is conferred the identity Tony Wilson. Tony is relocated by the Company into a beachside community in California. He attempts to assimilate into his new life, in which he is able to live as an artist —a career he had always aspired to..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/06/09/book-review-seconds-david-ely-1962

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/paul-mccartney-addresses-urban-legend-26580345

Does the Paul McCartney urban legend still hold up today?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/paul-mccartney-is-dead-conspiracy-897189

https://onstagemagazine.com/beatles-paul-urban-myths1

https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/paul-is-dead

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/liner-notes/when-paul-was-declared-dead

https://turnmeondeadman.com/paul-is-dead-clues-in-i-am-the-walrus

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Walrus-Was-Paul/R-Gary-Patterson/9780684850627#

Did Paul McCartney really die in 1966? The history of the conspiracy theory | Vinyl Rewind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18R1YnfRjY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live#Title_and_cover

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

The Colonial Mentality

 https://dailyhive.com/canada/tiktoker-racist-rant-on-video

Unfortunately, The White Colonial Mentality is still firmly perpetuated by some.

Canada is the 2nd largest country in area. Yet, Canada has less than half of 1% percent of the worlds population. Of course most of the worlds population is non-white. Is that why so many people aren't allowed to live in Canada?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#New_France_(Nouvelle-France)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#The_Americas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France#Political_divisions_of_New_France

https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/the-former-french-colonies.html

https://www.e-ir.info/2011/06/11/the-ongoing-relationship-between-france-and-its-former-african-colonies/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/world/africa/france-macron-africa-colonies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#Colonial_conflict_with_Britain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England  https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#/media/File:Tribal_Territories_Southern_New_England.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_England#Colonial_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies#British_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#British_North_America_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America#Colonies_in_the_Caribbean,_Mid-Atlantic,_and_South_America_in_1783

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#North_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire#The_Spanish_Habsburgs_(1516-1700)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_Spanish_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire#Spanish_American_conflicts_and_independence_(1810-1833)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#South_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#South_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#Asia-Pacific

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area

Australia

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Colonial_expansion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Indigenous_peoples

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/do-we-have-apartheid-in-australia

Unfortunately, the White Colonial Mentality established the White_Australia_policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901

Some people would have liked the Australia of the 1950s & 60s to have become like another South Africa during the same era. Australia chose to go in another direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-South_Africa_relations

Australia and Apartheid: The Ties That Bind

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20634562

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358530601046851?journalCode=ctrt20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy

Thus, by the 1970s, Australia didn't want to emulate the South Africa of the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Modern_era

It's a vast land with less people than what Texas has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Opposition_to_immigration

While there are arguments about Australia growing at a rate that it can adequately handle, the country will continue to diversify as it grows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia#Current_immigration_programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population#Significant_urban_areas_by_population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Demographics

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area#Map

Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/15/elon-musk-chatgpt-ai-rival-openai

It was inevitable that this would happen.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-x-ai-bec69eab

https://the-decoder.com/elon-musk-launches-ai-company-x-ai-in-pursuit-of-openai/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23684005/elon-musk-new-ai-company-x

https://venturebeat.com/ai/elon-musk-quietly-starts-x-ai-a-new-artificial-intelligence-company-to-challenge-openai/

https://techmarkup.com/chatgpt-and-its-high-global-water-consumption/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=OpenAI

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

The Cat from Outer Space...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_from_Outer_Space An ET cat comedy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077305 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEaSW1jtnQ

However, Jonesy_(the_cat) was stuck on a ship with a monstrous ALIEN.

https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonesy , https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Jones_(cat)

https://www.horrorgeeklife.com/2019/03/28/alien-flerken-jones-goose-cat

https://cinemacats.com/alien-1979 

https://www.insider.com/ranking-of-the-best-movie-cats-2019-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1982_film) , https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cat-people-1982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_cat

Oumuamua and other Peculiar Shapes

Oumuamua is quite an interestingly shaped object that seemed to move in a peculiar way.

Fossil Fools Day

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Fools_Day

Most people aren't interested in going back the the horse & wagon era of the pre 1900s. However, the EV revolution should have been gradually started in the 1970s so that by the 2020s, there would have been many more efficient motor vehicle choices. Now a personal digital carbon credit score can be gradually used to manipulate and control the lives of people in a global MATRIX grid. Just imagine how things could be with a world under total A.I. management and control. A totalitarian Electronic_Labyrinth, AKA: THX_1138.

THX 1138 (1971) Retrospective / Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZUp6FqFps

 The Making of THX 1138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yR3eA8Eas

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2023/01/18/the-worlds-most-unreliable-airlines Crappy airline service might cause some people to give up of flying, thus gradually reducing demand. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

Urban Legends

 https://www.insider.com/urban-legends-us-2018-1

Of course what might be dismissed as an urban_legend by some, might have more significance to others.

 https://www.rd.com/list/scary-urban-legends vs. https://www.rd.com/list/true-urban-legends

Fountains in Las Vegas

 https://foursquare.com/top-places/las-vegas/best-places-fountains

LV, a city in the+desert which is able to have big fountains. It's all part of the attraction.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g45963-Activities-c47-t13-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_of_Bellagio

https://bellagio.mgmresorts.com/en/entertainment/fountains-of-bellagio.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_of_Bellagio#Reception

https://trip101.com/article/fountains-in-las-vegas

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Las+Vegas

The fountains are flowing in Palm Springs

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/07/palm-springs-decorate-fountains-california-drought/29803265/

Fresh flowing water in the+desert is always impressive.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g659472-Activities-c47-t13-California_Desert_California.html

A nuclear plant that leaked 400,000 gallons of radioactive water shuts down for repairs after second incident

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minnesota-nuclear-plant-leaked-400000-gallons-radioactive-water-will-s-rcna76494

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-03-24/minnesota-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-for-leak-residents-worry Such incidents are very concerning and lead to an uncertain future.

Xcel Energy Monticello Power Plant Tritium Leak https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/air/tritiumleak.html

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-nuclear-plant-leak-6b72b6f9cd2a1141aadd985b68654e04

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minnesota-nuclear-plant-shuts-leak-residents-worry-98110848

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioactive-water-lake-minnesota-utility-excel-energy-nuclear-power-plant-repairs-monticello/

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/18/minnesota-nuclear-power-plant-water-leak-report

https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/minnesota-power-settlement

https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=nuclearwaste Some people think that there isn't enough nuclear waste in the world, so there should be more power plants constructed to create even more toxic waste. That would certainly help to create more of an uncertain future.

https://www.mncee.org/sites/default/files/report-files/Host-Communities-Study-Report-FINAL_2-24-20_updated%20%281%29.pdf

While nuclear+power plants can generate a tremendous amount of energy, there is also more of a risk when something goes wrong.

World's most famous fountains

 https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/107604722/worlds-most-famous-fountains

They are certainly all around.

https://mymodernmet.com/famous-fountains-around-the-world/

https://www.boredpanda.com/worlds-most-amazing-fountains/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

https://10mosttoday.com/10-most-famous-fountains-in-the-world/

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170131-10-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-fountains

https://www.thingstodopost.org/top-10-fountains-in-canada-canada-913929

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attractions-g153339-Activities-c47-t13-Canada.html

https://www.quebec-cite.com/en/quebec-city/fountains-old-quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fountains_in_Canada

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-parks-decorative-public-water-fountains-features Aparentrly, in spite of so much rain, Vancouver would rather just shut off its fountains. So far, no delegation from Vancouver has ever gone to LV or other cities around the world to get them to turn off their fountains.

From The Brainphone to The Borg

The Brainphone has its benefits. However, too much of this merging tech into the human body could easily lead into something like the Borg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg#Depiction

https://banthebrainphone.com , https://scottsnair.com/articles

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Brainphone#Impact_on_Human_Decision-Making

Why would anyone want to become something like a Borg_drone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg#Assimilation

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Brainphone#Humans_Merging_with_Robots_or_Artificial_Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/@banthebrainphone

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg#Technology

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Borg

Fountains--Water Wasters or Works of Art?

 https://wrrc.arizona.edu/publication/fountains-water-wasters-or-works-art

https://foursquare.com/top-places/phoenix/best-places-fountains There is something interesting about desert cities with fountains & flowing water in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona#Parks_and_recreation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Hills,_Arizona

John Wick 4 is just under 3 hours

 https://www.avclub.com/john-wick-4-joins-the-four-hour-original-cut-club-1850253723

The world of John_Wick just keeps on growing. 

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a43375526/john-wick-4-record-rotten-tomatoes/

https://uproxx.com/movies/john-wick-training-camp-rina-sawayama-keanu-reeves/

https://pitchfork.com/news/rina-sawayama-shares-new-john-wick-chapter-4-song-eye-for-an-eye-listen/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/john-wick-chapter-4-reviewed-a-slog-with-a-sensational-ending

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick:_Chapter_4

https://ew.com/movies/keanu-reeves-john-wick-spin-off-ballerina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick#Films

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=John+Wick

Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy

 https://www.salon.com/2023/03/22/from-the-wire-to-john-wick-we-trusted-lance-reddick-as-a-voice-of-authority-empathy-and-comedy/

He was such a great actor and person.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/john-wick-4-keanu-reeves-lance-reddick-remembered.html

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/20/lance-reddick-obituary

https://deadline.com/video/lance-reddick-farewell-the-film-that-lit-my-fuse-video

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/lance-reddick-charon-in-john-wick

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Lance+Reddick

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=John+Wick

William Shatner

William_Shatner has been going for 9 decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner#1966-1969:_Star_Trek_on_television

https://them0vieblog.com/2013/05/18/star-trek-shore-leave-review/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Trek%E2%80%93Shore+Leave

The Peripheral season 2

 https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a42165650/the-peripheral-season-2-release-date/

The_Peripheral_(TV_series) is some very cool science fiction entertainment.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-peripheral-renewed-season-2-amazon-1235518073/

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/21/the-peripheral-review-chloe-grace-moretz

https://screenrant.com/tag/the-peripheral/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_peripheral/s01

A-new-lease-on-life for some buildings

A portion of 330_North_Wabash was turned into a high end hotel.

https://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/buildings-of-chicago/building/330-north-wabash--ama-plaza-ibm-plaza/

Several buildings will essentially remain what they were intended to be throughout the buildings life time.

https://www.architecture.org/tours/detail/modernist-masterpieces-marina-city-and-the-ibm-building/

Sometimes a new owner or the same one, wants to repurpose a building.

https://everydaytourist.ca/city-planning-101/nova-building-a-new-lease-on-life

Lance Reddick

The Lance_Reddick tragedy, he had so much more to do and give.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Reddick#Death

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/lance-reddick-dead-the-wire-john-wick-1235557886/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-wire-star-lance-reddick-dies-natural-causes-publicist-says-rcna75527

https://johnwick.fandom.com/wiki/Charon

Lance Reddick’s “John Wick” Tour of NYC | On Location w/ Josh Horowitz (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqBctjF5gI

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714698

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Lance+Reddick

400,000 gallons of radioactive water leak from Minnesota nuclear plant

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/400000-gallons-radioactive-water-tritium-leak-minnesota-nuclear-plant-xcel-energy

Some people still believe that there aren't enough nuclear+power plants on the planet. That more could be built in seismic and ecological areas.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64989112

Some people don't even think that it's necessary to immediately inform the public. Who would benefit from this? Certainly not an uninformed public, but so much big money is involved.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/minnesota/articles/2023-03-17/regulators-nuclear-plant-leak-didnt-require-public-notice

Fortunately, the public knew fairly quickly about the Three+Mile+Island+accident in 1979.

William Gibson

William_Gibson has been writing about technology, reality and VR for decades and his works have certainly become part of popular culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Early_writing_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk

https://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/scifi/ns/hardy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Neuromancer

https://howtoacademy.com/podcasts/william-gibson-how-to-create-the-future/

https://www.u2interference.com/forums/f288/neuromancer-zooropa-179635.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Gibson-American-Canadian-author

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9226.William_Gibson

https://williamgibsonbooks.com/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317218/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6siNUJbx0&t=6s , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDVvhy9Z0I

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real

https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/

https://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_pst-nov14.html

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc

The best songs of U2 ranked

 https://www.avclub.com/the-best-songs-of-u2-ranked-1850225441

Something big happened to U2 some 3 decades ago. The 1990s was the dawn of the technological matrix zoo era for the band.

https://www.u2songs.com/songs/chiba_city_blues_excerpt_from_neuromancer_the_edge_bono_and_william_gibson

https://www.u2.com/news/title/exclusive_clips_from_new_william_gibson_movie_730/

https://www.u2songs.com/discography/william_gibson_no_maps_for_these_territories_documentary_various_artists

http://forum.talku2.com/index.php?topic=4694.0

https://www.u2.com/news/title/edge_bono_original_music_new_william_gibson_flick_729/

https://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/scifi/ns/hardy.html

https://www.wired.com/2005/08/u2

https://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_pst-nov14.html

https://howtoacademy.com/podcasts/william-gibson-how-to-create-the-future/

Things to Know About Pi

 https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/national-pi-day-3-14-things-to-know-about-pi/4153296/

Pi Day

Is Pi_Day just another day?

Picard's Jonathan Frakes responds to season 3's big change...

 https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a43272142/star-trek-picard-season-3-swearing-jonathan-frakes/

The return of popular characters from movies and TV can help to propel another series.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-picard-season-3-changelings-conspiracy-tng-1850214543

https://collider.com/star-trek-picard-season-3-episode-4-spoiler-interview-showrunner-terry-matalas/

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/picard-season-3-liam-shaw-captain-star-trek-needs-right-now/

https://trekcentral.net/sneak-peek-star-trek-picard-season-3-ep-4

https://trekcentral.net/review-star-trek-picard-no-win-scenario/

Construction timeline for new park above I-95 at Penn's Landing

 https://6abc.com/park-at-penns-landing-penns-old-city-philadelphia-delaware-river/12928109/

https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/03/08/i-95-cap-philadelphia-park-penns-landing

https://whyy.org/articles/penns-landing-park-i-95-construction/

https://www.phillyvoice.com/penns-landing-park-philadelphia-renderings-cap-i95-south-street-bridge/

https://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/footer/in-the-news/construction-on-the-penn-s-landing-cap-over-i-95-to-begin

Quantumania's Box Office Crash Means It Might Make Less Than Ant-Man 2

 https://screenrant.com/quantumanias-box-office-less-than-ant-man-2

Even if Ant-Man_and_the_Wasp:_Quantumania doesn't bring in as much money as Ant-Man_and_the_Wasp or the first Ant-Man movie, it's all part of the overall storyline.

https://bleedingcool.com/movies/ant-man-3-writer-talks-alternate-ending-option/

https://www.cbr.com/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-kang-secret-wars-role-mcu/

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ant-Man-and-the-Wasp-Quantumania-(2023)#tab=summary

https://collider.com/movies-about-quantum-physics/?newsletter_popup=1

Huge Fire Rips Through Skyscraper in Hong Kong Shopping District

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/huge-fire-rips-through-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-shopping-district#xj4y7vzkg

There is always a potential for such things.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3212152/two-taken-hospital-after-major-fire-hits-skyscraper-under-construction-hong-kongs-tsim-sha-tsui

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/massive-fire-in-hong-kong-skyscraper-no-casualties-3830039

https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/massive-blaze-at-unfinished-42-story-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-injures-two/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/scores-evacuated-fire-erupts-hong-kong-skyscraper-2023-03-03/

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=7&status=15

Greek rescuers comb through train crash wreckage as hopes fade

 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greek-rescuers-comb-through-train-crash-wreckage-hopes-fade-2023-03-02/

A mobile phone can be tracked to less than a metre.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64820085

Yet, there wasn't a level of technology that was able to trace & locate each train in Greece.

https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/train-accidents/the-5-worst-train-accidents-in-history

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/the-deadliest-train-crashes-in-the-world

https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-deadliest-train-accidents-4150911/

https://list25.com/25-worst-train-wrecks-in-history/

MySpace technology

https://www.libertycomms.com/myspace-a-blast-from-the-tech-past 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=MySpace

After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

Magnitude 6.3 aftershock strikes southern Turkey...,2 weeks after massive quake killed thousands

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/middleeast/turkey-quake-aftershock-intl/index.html

More death and destruction in the danger zone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/turkey-new-6-point-4-magnitude-earthquake-hatay

https://abcnews.go.com/International/new-6.4-earthquake-strikes-turkey-death-toll-climbs/story?id=97337228

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64711228

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-6.3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-southern-turkey-setting-new-fears-rcna71479

https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/turkey-and-syria-hit-by-new-6-4-magnitude-earthquake/

https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2023-02-20-17-04-29-utc-6-3-16

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/turkey.html

Before and after drone footage shows extent of devastation in quakes-hit Turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDjEEvxi0E , https://www.youtube.com/@guardiannews/videos

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes

The Space Cannon

This Gun Could Reach Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EMf_MTXVc

https://interestingengineering.com/science/jules-vernes-space-gun

The Space_gun started out as just another science fiction concept.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/space-cannon-hypersonic-speeds

https://newatlas.com/space/greenlaunch-space-cannon-gas-launch/

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2370/what-technological-hurdles-prevent-the-development-of-a-space-gun

The New AI-Powered Bing Is Threatening Users

 https://time.com/6256529/bing-openai-chatgpt-danger-alignment

ChatGPT is going places and some of it gets quite bizarre.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/the-6-biggest-problems-with-chatgpt-right-now/

https://www.businessinsider.com/see-chatgpt-rules-difficult-conversations-culture-wars-users-tricking-chatbot-2023-2

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/02/14/bing-chatgpt-meltdown/11258967002/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-use-openai-chatgpt-text-generation-chatbot/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-were-all-obsessed-with-the-mind-blowing-chatgpt-ai-chatbot/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/openais-new-chatgpt-bot-10-dangerous-things-its-capable-of 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ChatGPT

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=OpenAI

Netflix confirms it will start charging users to share an account with others outside their home

 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/netflix-password-sharing-rules-fees-how-many-users-rcna69790

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64573517

https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-is-happening-what-to-know/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-password-sharing-1.6741484

https://globalnews.ca/news/9470991/netflix-account-sharing-passwords-canada/

Buffalo, New York, area is hit with the strongest earthquake in 40 years

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-new-york-area-hit-strongest-earthquake-40-years-rcna69282

Buffalo already has tough winters, this earthquake could have been so much worse.

https://abc7ny.com/buffalo-earthquake-new-york-western-magnitude/12776239/

 https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/weather-stories/earthquake-hits-buffalo-new-york-area-today-did-you-feel-it/4087886/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/38-magnitude-earthquake-hits-upstate-new-york/story?id=96917809

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/nyregion/buffalo-seneca-earthquake.html

https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ny-buffalo/recent

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/earthquake-1.6738153

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes

Huge quake toppled buildings in Turkey and Syria

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64533851

All one can do is try to be prepared, because earthquakes just happen without much warning.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-gaziantep

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-live-updates-quake-tremor-latest-news

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/major-earthquake-strikes-turkey-syria-about-200-dead-many-trapped-2023-02-06/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Syria

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes

Devil's Pass (2013)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Pass

Of course various horror movies can tap into a mixture of themes and tropes.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905040

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Pass#Production