On the Cover it says something like "What we know today about the life of tomorrow".Yeah, I have read The Third Wave, which continues some of his ideas from futureshock.
TwistedSister said:I watched "AI" last night, and was pretty impressed. There were a few things that I didn´t like about the movie but which doesn´t have anything to do with the actual topic of it at all.
I´m gonna watch it again tonight and I´ve already ordered "Future Shock" and another book from A. Toffler, of which I only know the title in German, which would be something like "Time -table to the third millenium".
Might that be "The Third Wave"??
On the Cover it says something like "What we know today about the life of tomorrow".
Damn, Nevermore is again and again a great source for inspiration and intellectual challenges. Amazing.
Talking about books. I guess everyone´s read "1984"? I really love that one. It has nothing to do with the machines gaining consciousness in the future, we were talking about, but it does reflect another pretty alarming aspect of the future that could be real one day.
Sometimes it feels to me we´re on our best way to a "Big brother"-world. Some aspects of the story reminded me a lot of the so-called "Stasi", a controlling organization in the former GDR where I used to live before Germany was united. The similarities are frightening.
Final_Product said:Just be careful not to get sucked into Toffler - futureshock has some awesome ideas, but alot of his later works are heavily rooted in conjecture. I'd recommend buying The Politics of Ectasy by Timothy Leary if you haven't already, if your interested in reading more books that have inspired nevermore.
sentient 6 said:I was probably gonna tell you to listen to Sad Wings of Destiny and let you decide if he'd listened to that record during his formative years, I know I did...
sentient 6 said:I was probably gonna tell you to listen to Sad Wings of Destiny and let you decide if he'd listened to that record during his formative years, I know I did...
mad evil scientist said:When machine becomes more human than man, where does that leave us?
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That would leave us more machine than we'd like to admit.
guitarguru777 said:What inspired The Learning
and was Sentient 6 inspired by I-Robot.
Every time i hear them i cant help but think T-2 and i-Robot were inspirations for the particular time of each song.