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The Cinema Travellers

2016 · Film · documentary · 96 min

Directed by Amit Madheshiya, Shirley Abraham

Documentary

Showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India once every year. Seven decades on, as their cinema projectors crumble and film reels become scarce, their patrons are lured by slick digital technology. A benevolent showman, a shrewd exhibitor and a maverick projector mechanic bear a beautiful burden - to keep the last traveling cinemas of the world running. A critically acclaimed, poignant documentary that celebrates India’s travelling picture shows and laments their demise, filled with exquisite visuals and marvellous eccentrics.

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  1. Positiveno1youknowzOct 3, 2019

    I firmly believe that the brain is a form of quantum computing. I also believe that moving the consciousness from a 90yo close to death to a cloned body containing a newly grown brain or then later on a silicon based one will be possible in the future.

    The best TV show that encapsulated this was Travellers[0]. A damn good show which was cancelled just when things were getting interesting.

    I would say it's possible by entangling the particles from the source brain to the recipient one. Once completed the original source is destroyed, so it's effectively a move and not a copy.

    There's also the 6th day movie [1]. Imagine being able to spin up multiple copies of yourself and 100x your own output? I believe that will also be possible in the future. Probably outlawed due to lots of ethical reasons. But... I'd like to think why not? Me[1] lives on earth. Me[2] lives in Mars, Me[3] lives on a moon in the asteroid belt. Me[4] is currently navigating out of the solar system. Since all the brains are entangled. I'd know everything in an instant.

    How do deal with that is another story. Unless I'm AI at that point, which means the collective are all just a bunch of VMs anyway :P

    [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99LZwZmSoNo [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP44dGIi9c