Sunday, July 16, 2023

Vision Pro by Apple

 https://mixed-news.com/en/vision-pro-is-apples-strategy-wrong/

Augmented_reality, VR and Mixed_reality are all part of the intersection of Extended_reality. (XR)

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/16/apple-has-a-unique-working-arrangement-with-the-vision-pro-team

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nba-games-could-be-apple-vision-pros-secret-weapon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/apple-vision-pro-headset-to-launch-in-us-stores-by-appointment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2023/07/09/apple-headlines-iphone-15-pro-iphone-battery-apple-vision-pro-apple-music-macos-gaming/?sh=42d0a4c76223

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-09/apple-vision-pro-xr-headset-will-take-years-to-become-key-part-of-business-ljvfzfvr

https://frontofficesports.com/bob-iger-adam-silver-promote-apple-vision-pros-impact-on-sports/

https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-vision-pro

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-forced-make-cuts-vision-pro-production-plans-ft-2023-07-03


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vision+Pro

The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan_Project was such a vast operation of lethal technological development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Los_Alamos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Project_sites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Manhattan_Project

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-rush-song-about-j-robert-oppenheimer

Rush - Manhattan Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhE8VQlczS4 , https://www.youtube.com/@rush/videos

Rush - Manhattan Project With Original Animations! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWd4qEBWXVc

Rush-Manhattan Project (Lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkicdO_64w

RUSH - "Manhattan Project" Live In Birmingham 1988 - 2022 HD Remaster (Laserdisc/DVD Hybrid!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW5m8HNz0jc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project_(song)


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

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

Friday, July 14, 2023

Oppenheimer, the Man and the Movie

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1XEwfOJshU

The ‘Oppenheimer’ Cast on Filming the Trinity Test, Immersing Themselves in Their Characters, & More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykioWgVoYcI

Why there are new assessments of Oppenheimer's role in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcViAL8c6U

The Trials Of Oppenheimer - BBC History Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZXphvc-BVk


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

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

U2: Zooropa and ZOO TV

Zooropa was such a super-tour for U2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour , https://www.u2.com/tour/id/54

Bono as the Fly, was also like a pre-Neo during the early 1990s.

Achtung_Baby really hit hard in 1991. https://www.u2.com/music/albums/4009

The music video for Even_Better_Than_the_Real_Thing (1992) was so far ahead of its time that it took until the first MATRIX movie to top it.

Even_Better_Than_the_Real_Thing#Music_video , https://www.u2.com/media/player/18/10 Before people could see Neo in the MATRIX (1999), there was Bono as the Fly in the U2 entertainment ZOO. https://www.artem.com/portfolio/554

https://www.u2.com/news/title/surprise-zoo-station-a-u2uv-experience-in-vegas

https://www.u2.com/tour , https://www.u2.com/media/photos/184  


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV

Tuesday, July 04, 2023

What is The Nature of Reality?

 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once#Plot

It seems that the more curious and perceptive one is, the more clues they will discover.

https://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html   


Before The MATRIX in 1999, there was, 

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing

So is this world part of some kind of a cosmic interactive recording and projection of data, time and space? A lot of people still aren't ready to ponder this concept. That this world might be someones stage, laboratory, farm, garden or ZOO.




Saturday, July 01, 2023

Some Wide Bridges and High Volume Crossings in the World

https://bridgemastersinc.com/record-setting-bridges-across-the-globe

https://www.axiomint.com/built-wide-bridge-across-the-great-divide

Cairo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_El_Farag_Axis_Bridge Has 12 lanes. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/6/egypts-new-bridge-becomes-the-widest-cable-stayed-bridge-580736

Brisbane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges They provide a 12 lane crossing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge It has 14 lanes. https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/george-washington-bridge/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge It has 13 lanes. https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/10/06/bike-lanes-eyed-in-400m-overhaul-of-verrazano-bridge/

Since the early 1970s, the 10 lane San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge is augmented in a way, by the Transbay_Tube. Indeed, 10 car BART trains cross the San_Francisco_Bay. Unfortunately, the BART tube wasn't designed to have a provision for a 3rd or 4th set of train tracks, so capacity is limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_the_San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge Unfortunately, the Bay Bridge doesn't have anything like Sydney_Harbour_Bridge_cycleway as of yet.

The Sydney_Harbour_Bridge has 8 lanes and 2 tracks of the North_Shore_railway_line. The Harbour Bridge is augmented by the 4 lane Sydney_Harbour_Tunnel. On the other side of the Harbour Bridge is the Sydney_Metro-tunnel , https://www.sydneymetro.info/article/history-under-sydney-harbour , https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017/tbm-fatcheet.PDF , https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-21/sydney-metro-train-travels-under-harbour/102252872 , https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-news-train-goes-under-harbor-bridge-for-the-first-time-in-test/92d0ef56-3032-4416-a653-5b7c67dba002

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Gate_Bridge Has 10 lanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Bridge,_Glasgow Has 10 lanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Bridge Has 8 lanes.

The new Port_Mann_Bridge in Canada was the widest for a little while. However, the bridge should have also had 2 rapidbus lanes and a provision for 2 rail rapid transit tracks. https://www.itsinternational.com/its1/feature/widest-bridge-world-port-mann-open-vancouver

The George_Massey_Tunnel was built to classic backward BC standards with only 4 lanes and no bus lanes and no breakdown lanes. While its replacement will have 8 lanes, there is no provision for rapid_transit. No emergency lanes and no provision for extra HOV & bus lanes. https://biv.com/article/2023/06/bc-starts-bid-process-41b-massey-traffic-tunnel

These 3 fine crossings were possible, simply because they aren't under any Vancouver, BC type restrictions and limitations. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth) ,WA: Has 10 lanes and 2 train tracks.

Seattle, WA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_90_floating_bridges An 8 lane crossing with 2 train tracks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal,_2019-present), Quebec: It has 8 lanes and 2 train tracks. Stubborn BC will likely continue to not follow the examples of WA & Q.

At the other end of the spectrum is the inept, 3 lane Lions_Gate_Bridge. It just might be the best example of bottleneck planning on the planet. The Lions-Gate-Bridge is too narrow and flimsy to accomodate 2 bus lanes, especially any trains. Unlike Sydney, SF & Montreal in the 1930s, Vancouver was just a provincial backwater. Thus, the Lions_Gate_Bridge opened with just 2 lanes. A bridge so narrow that some living rooms and swimming pools are wider than it. The 3rd lane was squeezed in during the early 1950s. The Lions_Gate_Bridge would be fantastic as a bus, bike and pedestrian crossing. However, an 8 lane tunnel with a provision for a train line, should be built from the North_Shore to Georgia_Street. The section of Georgia-Street that's closest to Stanley_Park is 7 lanes wide. However, unlike most major cities, Vancouver deliberately keeps falling behind, because congestive or stunted planning is the way to go. 

Fortunately, the Vancouverism mentality didn't stop the Narrows_Bridge_in_Perth or Seattle's upgraded Interstate_90_floating_bridges and especially, the Champlain_Bridge_in_Montreal. (WA & Q)


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

Friday, June 30, 2023

The Pope on Artificial Intelligence

 https://futurism.com/pope-guide-artificial-intelligence

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/04/20/religion-against-the-machine-pope-francis-takes-on-ai

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-03/pope-francis-minerva-dialogues-technology-artificial-intelligenc.html

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/documents/rc_pont-acd_life_doc_20202228_rome-call-for-ai-ethics_en.pdf

At a certain point, AI could almost be everywhere.

Differences between Canada's C-18 and the Australian model

 https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/corporate/transparency/open-government/standing-committee/pablo-rodriguez-bill-c18/differences.html

This should be a time for more information access and distribution around the world.

https://www.acma.gov.au/

https://www.telecomreviewcanada.com/articles/reports-and-coverage/1093-google-reacts-to-new-canadian-law-restricts-news-access-for-canadians

https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2022-03/australia-and-canada-collaborate-combat-illegal-communications

https://www.iicom.org/event/iic-australian-chapter-may-2017/

https://businesschief.com/leadership-and-strategy/crtc-and-acma-promote-global-do-not-call-list

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/crtc-hosts-first-meeting-between-five-countries-to-combat-scam-communications-874544989.html

https://www.telecomreviewcanada.com/articles/general-news/1100-canada-france-new-joint-committee-boosts-tech-research-collaboration

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqCBJ7FnRY

MSG SPHERE Las Vegas Largest and Newest Attraction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGOZtx9NMlE

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas Will BLOW Your Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLfHQLW-og

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Star Trek vs. Star Wars

 https://www.diffen.com/difference/Star_Trek_vs_Star_Wars

While they are each set in a different universe, there are some similarities.

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


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Trek

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Wars

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

 https://www.tor.com/2023/06/29/some-of-our-yesterdays-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/

At the very least, time travel episodes can be quite entertaining.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-recap-season-2-episode-3-1850546334

Sometimes such subject matter can be very thought provoking.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_(episode)

https://screenrant.com/strange-new-worlds-season-2-episode-3-ending/

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/06/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/

https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/how-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2s-latest-episode-majorly-changed-the-timeline-and-what-the-showrunner-has-to-say-about-it


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Strange+New+Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds intersection with Khan

 https://nerdist.com/article/how-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-just-rewrote-important-star-trek-history-time-travel-khan/

Of course time travel is a recurring theme in the Star Trek universe.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=time+travel

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Strange+New+Worlds

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Toronto air quality is currently among the worst in the world

 https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-air-quality-currently-among-the-worst-in-the-world-1.6458972

Air+quality has its good days, but then the bad days really hit so hard.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/06/28/the-big-smoke-photos-capture-toronto-air-quality-wildfire-smoke/

https://globalnews.ca/news/9798277/southern-ontario-air-quality-deteriorated-wildfires/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-air-quality-wildfire-smoke-1.6891013

It's certainly not any better in Chicago or Detroit.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184746530/why-haze-wildfire-canada-midwest

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/27/chicago-midwest-hit-by-canada-wildfire-smoke/70360124007

Chicago’s air quality index is the worst in the U.S. as Canadian wildfire smoke lingers

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/poor-air-quality-live-updates-rcna91545

Of course air+quality can vary, but sometimes it's right in your face.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-worst-air-quality-canadian-wildfire-smoke-june-27-2023/

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicagos-air-quality-currently-worst-in-world/

https://gizmodo.com/chicago-has-some-of-the-worst-air-quality-in-the-world-1850583194

https://theathletic.com/4646635/2023/06/28/cubs-phillies-wildfire-smoke-chicago/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/28/air-quality-index-map-today/70363547007/


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

Monday, June 26, 2023

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate years before its Titanic sub vanished

 https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183408455/titan-missing-submarine-oceangate-submersible

The Titan+Sub implosion shows that there should be much better safety protocols in place.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183249112/missing-titanic-submarine-rescue-pisces-iii

Unanswered questions in the Titanic Sub rescue

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/titanic-submarine-distress-signal-banging-sounds-b2361470.html

Missing Titanic submarine: Five things that may have gone wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kkns8RCs-w

Either another sub should have tagged along that could have rescued it, or at least have a rescue sub stationed on the surface, just incase anything went wrong.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/titanic-search-wreck-missing-oxygen-b2360999.html

The Titanic Submarine Situation Is Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmwpE07CFE

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/canadian-aircraft-detects-underwater-noises-in-search-for-sub-near-titanic.html


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

Aircraft detected 'underwater noises’ from search area for missing Titanic tourist submarine

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/canadian-aircraft-detected-underwater-noises-search-area-missing-titanic-tourist-submarine

Missing Submersible: Former Titan passenger says 'it was not safe' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOV-TQIN2k

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html

It's not that it was forbidden for the Titanic to have another ship following it no more than a km away, or that this sub should have had an emergency response vehicle stationed on the surface. It's as if there was no reason to think that things might go seriously wrong. Thus, no need to allow for such a contingency.

Even today almost any ship or sub should have the option of being accompanied by an escort-vessel. At the very least, there should have been the equivalent of a tow-truck sub on standby on the surface. 

If even one very wealthy passenger on the Titanic paid for a ship to discreetly follow it, almost everyone could have been rescued. Instead, so many people drowned or froze to death, because it took too long for other ships to arrive. 

If the wealthiest person in the-sub could have paid for an emergency response sub to be stationed on the surface, then a rescue could have been started shortly after communication was lost.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Biologists create detailed lab replicas of early human embryos

 https://www.science.org/content/article/biologists-use-human-stem-cells-create-embryo-replicas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_(1976_film) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drHa4KEey4 , https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074475 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwQ647RDbo

A lot of things can be grown in a lab and some of these things might be spliced and composed of unnatural genetic combinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_(2009_film)#Plot

The movies Embryo and Splice depict secret lab experiments.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-create-human-embryo-like-structures-with-stem-cells/

What really can happen in various labs around the world?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance

Most advanced synthetic human embryo models yet spark controversy 

A pair of studies raises ethical and legal questions about the status of lab-grown human embryo models. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01992-0

A bus crashes with a semi in Manitoba

  https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/at-least-10-killed-in-crash-on-trans-canada-highway-in-western-manitoba-report

The Carberry_highway_collision is the worst of its kind in Manitoba. Of course even a highway with a concrete divider can still have plenty of crashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality_of_North_Cypress_-_Langford

https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/families-loved-ones-await-word-on-loved-ones-in-manitoba-bus-crash-that-killed-15

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-rcmp-say-semi-truck-had-right-of-way-at-time-of-deadly-trans-canada-highway-crash-1.6444026

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shared-health-update-carberry-mass-casualty-event-1.6879117

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crash-carberry-manitoba-1.6877826

In canada, several highway intersections still don't have overpasses and have traffic lights instead. At-grade intersections, especially on the Trans-Canada Highway, should be brought up to proper freeway standards.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/15/manitoba-bus-crash-canada

A divided highway can be a little safer than one that isn't.


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

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing in Vancouver, BC

The Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing or bridge, had a chance to be designed to be bigger and better in 1958. Unfortunately, it's just a 6 lane bridge, like the old Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing#Collapse 

Either a new transit bridge with 2 rail rapid transit tracks and 2 bus & 2 HOV lanes should be built beside it, or something like the new Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal,_2019-present)#Specifications 8 lanes with 2 train tracks, bike & walkways. 

The Sydney_Harbour_Bridge has 8 lanes, 2 tracks, bike and foot paths.


The Trans-Canada Highway

So much of the Trans-Canada_Highway was just a 2 lane backcountry road. Then eventually the challenge was to make it to become at least a 4 lane divided highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Highway_1 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_System_(Canada)#Manitoba

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/15/manitoba-bus-crash-canada


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=highways TCH

Friday, June 16, 2023

Quatermass and the Pit, Aliens or Demons?

Quatermass_and_the_Pit is quite an interesting ancient ET science fiction movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)#Plot

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24796/five-million-years-to-earth/#overview

Why do so many descriptions of cosmic aliens seem to look demonic?

https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/the-states-most-likely-to-survive-an-alien-invasion-study/

Of course some insects and aquatic life looks like they cold be from hell as well, but that's just how they look.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

California Preps for Digital ID Rollout

 https://www.route-fifty.com/digital-government/2023/06/state-preps-digital-id-rollout/387534/

Digital ID systems are the logical and practical way to constantly track and locate almost anything.

https://www.govtech.com/fs/california-moves-to-test-new-digital-drivers-licenses

https://upgradedpoints.com/travel/digital-drivers-licenses

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/transportation/2023/05/05/electronic-driver-registration-cards--digital-license-plate-frames-could-be-coming-to-ca

https://cdt.ca.gov/digitalid/

Eventually, as more data is gathered and linked to each person, a world Social Obedience Score (SOS) can be determined. Such a score would be determined by AI, of course. Unfortunately, most of humanity might not realize that at a certain point its sovereignty was given over to AI or Digital Intelligence.

Thursday, June 01, 2023

Artificial Life and AI, ETc.

Artificial_life, along with AI and Robotics can make for quite an interesting intersection of technology.

 https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-artificial-life-for-people-who-like-ai

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

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2014.00008/full

Can We Create ‘Artificial’ Life? Future of Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYC7ECDA1jk , https://www.youtube.com/@TheWorldOfScienceCo/videos

Scientists Create Artificial Life That Reproduces In a Strange Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnivFz2rbM4

World's first living robots "Xenobots" can now reproduce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9cciBx_oU

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-may-be-artificial-intelligence-not-life-as-we-know-it  



ET-AI and Artificial+Life.

NASA holds its first public meeting on UFOs

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-hostile-nasa-ufos.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65769172 

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nasa-ufo-hearing-uap-meeting-today-b2349370.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65729356 

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/thousands-years-ago-artists-painted-other-worldly-beings-canyon-rock-walls

The UFO phenomenon has been occurring since ancient times.

https://www.museum-ed.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/talk/20220808143356/


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

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

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Mysteries and Dangers in National Parks

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

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-national-parks/episodes

Spring and summer are the most popular times to visit. Unfortunately, things don't always go according to one's plans.

https://newverest.com/blogs/newverest-blog/7-unexplained-mysteries-of-the-united-states-national-parks

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/tenaya-canyon-in-yosemites-cursed-history-18121807.php

Yosemite is full of wonder and some strange things. 

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/category/Yosemite+National+Park

https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/yosemite-the-weird-and-the-wonderful.htm

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/These-13-people-went-missing-in-Yosemite-16629374.php


Top 10 Dark National Park Mysteries That Will NEVER Be Solved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRnANa_PhU

Park Rangers And Hikers REVEAL The TRUTH About National Parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBc2Zvc8ruw

Just being out in the elements when things go wrong, then you suddenly realize that you really are far away from civilization.

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

HORROR In The Grand Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYX4TFPhHuk , https://www.youtube.com/@thrillzone8807/videos

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


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyonlands_National_Park , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours  



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

Saturday, May 13, 2023

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

Saturday, May 06, 2023

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

Friday, May 05, 2023

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 lovepoetry, 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


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

Thursday, May 04, 2023