By George! You all need to make a hollywood blockbuster about the singularity and get all these national-security soccor moms screaming hellfire about regulating nanotechnology… “THE END IS NEAR!” I mean, with ‘Left Behind’ being so popular and all, your cause should fit right into the current milieu of paranoia in America.
I can see the preview now, children are quietly singing “My Country ‘tis of Thee” in an old-fashioned classroom, a shot zooms from out the window to show suburban homes, a man taking out the trash with a dog, a woman gardening, a newscast can be overheard intermingling with the singing, “Ha Ha Mark, well, today’s been a big day for science! Japanese physicist Uki Murakazi has unveiled his new, very tiny, and CUTE I might add, hydrogen-fuel creating nanobots...” Woman looks up as sky starts to darken. Silence ‘What if all that ever mattered to you...’ Lone voice, “Mommy?” Screaming chaos, school busses get sucked into some pit in the earth, upclose shots of hot half-naked woman running away in a towel with a bruise crying, firemen running pel-mell, buildings collapsing, the works… “What if all of it...” Dramatic “EUNK!” sound upon a black screen… Voices fade in, “God, where are you?” “I don’t think we can stop it...” “Mommy? Where are we?”
“Be prepared, because this September,” violins making that very high pitched mournful noise, the words “The Singularity is Near” appear on the screen.
It practically writes itself… Then at the high point of the movie’s popularity, you begin making press releases, interviews, etc. that declare you find such doomsdays scenarios (though not exactly as depicted) possible and of important security risk. Could backfire and make you look insane, I suppose… But even so, there’s a lot of money in Hollywood- think about the Scientologists.
By George! You all need to make a hollywood blockbuster about the singularity and get all these national-security soccor moms screaming hellfire about regulating nanotechnology… “THE END IS NEAR!” I mean, with ‘Left Behind’ being so popular and all, your cause should fit right into the current milieu of paranoia in America.
I can see the preview now, children are quietly singing “My Country ‘tis of Thee” in an old-fashioned classroom, a shot zooms from out the window to show suburban homes, a man taking out the trash with a dog, a woman gardening, a newscast can be overheard intermingling with the singing, “Ha Ha Mark, well, today’s been a big day for science! Japanese physicist Uki Murakazi has unveiled his new, very tiny, and CUTE I might add, hydrogen-fuel creating nanobots...” Woman looks up as sky starts to darken. Silence ‘What if all that ever mattered to you...’ Lone voice, “Mommy?” Screaming chaos, school busses get sucked into some pit in the earth, upclose shots of hot half-naked woman running away in a towel with a bruise crying, firemen running pel-mell, buildings collapsing, the works… “What if all of it...” Dramatic “EUNK!” sound upon a black screen… Voices fade in, “God, where are you?” “I don’t think we can stop it...” “Mommy? Where are we?” “Be prepared, because this September,” violins making that very high pitched mournful noise, the words “The Singularity is Near” appear on the screen.
It practically writes itself… Then at the high point of the movie’s popularity, you begin making press releases, interviews, etc. that declare you find such doomsdays scenarios (though not exactly as depicted) possible and of important security risk. Could backfire and make you look insane, I suppose… But even so, there’s a lot of money in Hollywood- think about the Scientologists.