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FableForge's Foundlings #21: Documenting the Coming of S1M0N3I'm only too happy to keep digging for glimpses of the imminent, unstoppable future. This is, as historians call it, a paradigm shifter. A revolution of such magnitude that many of the Old Rules will no longer apply. A great equalizer, that'll force a lot of people to restart from near scratch, and will give others a chance they otherwise would have never dreamed of. I predicted that old actors would be brought back to life using digital motion, and that came true in the commercials here:
Next I predicted that technology would get cheaper and more powerful to the point where you no longer need those little tracking balls on the actor's body to do motion capture, that came true here:
In fact, in less than 10 years.... lonely geeks will have virtual Angelina Jolies all of their own to chat with... and more in their own computers. AI, most people don't know this, but AI is very... very advanced. Trust me. But first, la Pièce de résistance:
Did you catch that? She wasn't real. She was 3D model, all the way. Shudder, my dear friends, shudder, and welcome the future coming at ya like a freight train :) Submitted by FableForge on August 18, 2008 - 7:35pm. |
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