From: ghost@god-dash-eater-dot-.org   
      
   In article <1133101716.630674.298520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,   
    alienthe@hotmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Hollywood is getting too risk averse, they seem to prefer certain   
   > failure to possible success these days. John Shirley wrote a bit  about   
   > the scriptwriting process on his messageboard and the tendency of   
   > adding specialist scriptwrites to "adjust" scenes or add oneliners   
   > results in a mediochre clichefest. Less remains more.   
      
   Unfortunate trend, leading me to look to Sundance for decent flicks.   
      
   > > > In a newsgroup like this   
   > > >it might be more constructive to concentrate on what is actual new and   
   > > >what advances the genre.   
   > >   
   > > >As always I am looking for what people think is Cyberpunk of the   
   > > >current decade.   
   > >   
   > > Well Alienthe, you are our chief researcher, tell us, what is going on   
   > > out there? ;)   
   >   
   > Did I just clock up a cyberpoint there? Michael "Technical Boy" Gould   
   > and Sourcerer have also been in the researching business from what I   
   > can remember. Anyway, polishing my cyberriffic crystal ball I see ...   
   > very little. I believe the "long boon" has fizzled into the "long yawn"   
   > where Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (YKK) seems more realistic than Snow   
   > Crash. In the neighbouring Chatsubo the Peak Oil scenario is recently a   
   > recurring one, but I can see a few others too, like   
      
   That's hung around ACCs neck like an albatross at this point. Even the   
   main proponent won't write a story about it.   
      
   >  - total implosion of the US dollar, even the Economist has discussed   
   >    this one   
   >  - outsourcing beyond reason, some European once great companies have   
   >   outsourced nearly everything but the management and they seem either   
   >   useless or corrupt so the pention fund owners, no longer having   
   >   anything   to lose are happy to dispose of them too.   
      
   The plus side is some developing countries are getting a desperately   
   needed insurgence of capitol ... as one rises so another falls. Perhaps   
   economics follows a similar law of thermodynamics where you have a   
   constant level of global income/wealth and it simply moves around to   
   where it is most effective (or perhaps most profitable in the short   
   term).   
      
   >  - disasters, like the way overdue next Kanto quake that is expected to   
   >   kill about one million in Tokyo, will mean Japan will have to   
   >   liquidate assets abroad to rebuild. Oh, and did you feel safe while   
   >   you were in Tokyo?   
      
   Speaking of YKK (mentioned a bit above) since that premise is in the   
   aftermath of Mt. Fuji popping... Given Tokyo's population density is the   
   1 Million a low ball, high ball or average estimate?   
      
   > This newsgroup, while rather quiet lately, has been the scene of many   
   > interesting discussion of currents in the underground and above.   
   >   
   > Wikipedia is to me an interesting event and the main point to me is the   
   > question of signal to noise. Will it scale well or will it end up like   
   > Usenet News when AOL hooked it up to the eternal September? Already I   
   > believe I can see the signs of trouble and that once again noise   
   > scaling faster than signal. Perhaps this is elitistic but then again we   
   > also seem to live in a time when reading, writing and thinking means   
   > you are part of the elite. Another sign of the "long yawn" perhaps?   
      
   Noticed a disturbing issue on Wikipedia that leads me to believe it will   
   soon implode and become the Eternal September. The manga (and series) of   
   Azumanga Daio has come under some fire in a few Chat Forums (RPG.net   
   being one, I forget the other, more Anime-centric one) as Fans edit the   
   Wiki-entry with pure conjecture and outright blatant untruths that even   
   the creators have said "huh, no." and the signal to noise ratio is   
   unbelievably high on the noise side as the argument rages on whether the   
   conjectured parts of the entry shouldn't be split out and labeled as   
   such either in another entry or subsection of the main entry. Apparently   
   some fans as so entrenched they can't be convinced they might be wrong.   
      
   GIGO.   
      
   anyways... I ramble.   
      
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