This is rather unusual. I just found out that there is actually a videogame based on the Godfather. Now, I knew for a while that there was a game based on Star Wars (surprise, surprise), but this one caught me off guard. This whole thing about all media converging towards one really mixed up smorgasbord (I just love that word) is rather intimidating. We already have movies based on videogames, take fro example Angelina Jolie’s rather infamous Lara Croft movies; then we have movies based on carnival rides, as in Pirates of the Caribbean. And of course, we have movies based on comic strips, Superman, Spiderman, yadda, yadda, yadda. The reverse trend, especially with the Godfather, which, of course is based on Mario Puzo’s MUCH better book, is rather disconcerting.
Convergence, convergence. Something in class I happened to notice today: this girl sitting behind me was not taking notes; she was clacking away at her shiny laptop computer, typing the notes in. I mean, wow!
Pretty soon, the whole thing about opening up a new book fresh from the printer’s will be just lost. Or maybe not.
Meanwhile, entertainment goes to new levels. Remember that Gawd-awful Arnie movie Total Recall? That played around with the virtual reality concept… You take vacations everywhere… but the one constant is you! That could change, with a VR memory installed in your head, you could have memories of going to Mars as a secret agent (with a luscious babe waiting for you, of course)…..
Yes, things are a-changing, and I am too old fashioned to change with them. Or not.
Convergence, convergence. Something in class I happened to notice today: this girl sitting behind me was not taking notes; she was clacking away at her shiny laptop computer, typing the notes in. I mean, wow!
Pretty soon, the whole thing about opening up a new book fresh from the printer’s will be just lost. Or maybe not.
Meanwhile, entertainment goes to new levels. Remember that Gawd-awful Arnie movie Total Recall? That played around with the virtual reality concept… You take vacations everywhere… but the one constant is you! That could change, with a VR memory installed in your head, you could have memories of going to Mars as a secret agent (with a luscious babe waiting for you, of course)…..
Yes, things are a-changing, and I am too old fashioned to change with them. Or not.
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