Couldn't help but notice in the new Matrix movie that "older" programs either have the option to join the collective or face deletion.
This sounds an AWFUL lot like the philosophies we came across in TRON. Anyone else smell a lawsuit?
Funny you mention that,since I´m planning to do a Neo VS Tron match in the future in my site.
But I bet Tron wouldn´t lose in a fight to Bugs Bunny!
Speaking of TRON how many people here think that given the advances in CGI technology that a remake would kick serious ass?
ErikJ wrote:
> Speaking of TRON how many people here think that given the
> advances in CGI technology that a remake would kick serious
> ass?
You should be able to find out. The new computer game is due out pretty soon.
I'll stick with my glow-in-the-dark t-shirt.
> Couldn't help but notice in the new Matrix movie that "older"
> programs either have the option to join the collective or face
> deletion.
>
> This sounds an AWFUL lot like the philosophies we came across
> in TRON. Anyone else smell a lawsuit?
Well, it is believable that certain "common sense" ideas would carry through films with some similar elements. It almost sounds like the Matrix is the ultimate in evolutionary democracy - what the collective decides is law and all of the parts are continuously moving forward toward improvement.
Lawsuit? I hope not. You should never be able to patent a generic idea or process - despite what the US Patent Office has been doing of late. Like the farmer in Canada who just hit the news. He is fighting a lawsuit with a big bioengineering company over seed. Every year he saves some seed from the harvest to plant the next year. Somehow this company's bioengineered strain (which they have a patent on) got mixed in with his. The company sued him.
Full story: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/05/16/89132-cp.html
Slashdot discussion: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1645212&mode=thread&tid=99&tid=123&tid=155