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...front of their computers, enjoying (or condemned to) a life no more than virtual. But the main story, in which humans and robots do battle for the future of the collective soul, is familiar from many a Philip K. Dick story, like Minority Report, not to mention The Matrix and, in its proposing of a renegade colony of humans, District 9. Unfortunately "like" doesn't mean "as good as." Surrogates is busy and brainy but dyspeptic - an action movie that aspires to entropy...
...only one who thinks Google is The Matrix? It's true! Google gives us the most wonderful free stuff--search, e-mail, productivity apps--and all we have to do in return is let it suck our souls...
Google does a passable job of voice recognition and transcription. For instance, when I left a message, "The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth," the transcribed e-mail I received a minute later read, "The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over. Your is to blind you from the truth." I can live with that. I mean, what do you expect for free...
...some concepts, as you wrote in your book, still have to be translated with pop culture references like The Matrix or Groundhog...
...Collapse? When we came into government in February, we found $4 million in the state coffers. What government can survive on that? Anything but political cohabitation was suicidal. We are moving from being an opposition movement to positioning ourselves as a party that is trying to change the power matrix of the country. It's not a gamble. It's brave, but it's something calculated. This is not a revolution. This is an evolution, and evolutions are sometimes slow and frustrating. If we had been looking for a revolution, then we would have had it, but with...