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The President's Analyst
1967 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
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I recently rewatched the movie Looker which was vastly ahead of its time in 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
the same year as Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, featuring computer generated characters, brainwashing television commercials, a light pulse gun that causes absence seizures, gun battles inside a plastic surgery clinic and an AR simulation environment, a sadistic computer, a physician who doubles as an action hero, and James Coburn giving a lecture explaining the enemy's evil plans in the opposite role that he played in the (excellent) The President's Analyst.
This time I was not so dazzled and saw it for as atrocious everyone else things it is. The minions of "Digital Matrix, Inc." manage several assassinations with the light-pulse L.O.O.K.E.R. gun but when they use real firearms they outdo Vader's stormtroopers by shooting each other. (Want to see the scene where somebody from E.Y. tells them to stick to the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun) The bad guys explain the penultimate secret to the protagonist early on but the ultimate secret is revealed in the L.O.O.K.E.R. lab which doesn't feel like a lab at all but rather a rather good room in a theme park experience where you're supposed to uncover the secret. (Contrast that to the lab Doug Trumbull outfitted in the Brainstorms movie a few years later which is packed with real surplus equipment... I've been to that lab!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBlWxXqH8vA
> I find it fascinating that the telephone bureau was powerful enough to initiate such language change. Imagine happening this today.
You will get a chuckle out of the film The President's Analyst.
>Would a global "internet" run by the phone companies be better than what we have? Discuss.
A global network run by The Phone Company (TPC) was the subject of "The President's Analyst":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Analyst
The President's Analyst - The Phone Company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2NNZdigSXg
The President's Analyst - Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63yeIIEd6k
Murder of a Movie - How J. Edgar Hoover Killed "The President's Analyst":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwM4Solrzes
I'd be interested to know more about the background and history of your company and its founders, please?
And what's on the roadmap -- any plans for tactile feedback?
Are they available and shipping now? Do you ship to Europe?
Thanks for dropping by!
Did you know there used to be a magazine named Tap? And have you seen the movie "The President's Analyst?" ;) I bet the Woz would love to play around with one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNv8m2Gl3Ec
The "creepiness factor" of targeted advertising.
I am completely cool with advertising, as well as Real Life targeted advertising such as direct mail.
However I am profoundly offended by targeted online advertising. For example a few days ago I was scouting around for a book on purely conceptual mobile website design. I like APress' books on conceptual iOS App design, so I wandered around APress' site, eventually to come up empty-handed.
Now, when I log into facebook, absolutely the whole fucking time is an ad for APress books.
Look I think APress is a right chap but I don't want him following me home from the WiFi spot late at night!
However I realize now that I have a realistic method to make A Compleat Clusterfuque of Facebook's ad tracking:
I have so far avoided entering any of my favorite books or movies. I also - from time to time - advise my FB friends to avoid it themselves. Few of them were previously aware such tracking was possible.
Here Are A Few Of My Favorite Things:
Movies:
The President's Analyst 2001: A Space Oddyssey Logan's Run (all those comedy flicks that star Leslie Nielsen) Bound For Glory Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Tora! Tora! Tora! Most but not all the James Bond flicks Very few of the sequels to anything
Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance All Quiet On The Western Front The Hobbit (but not Lord of the Rings) 2001: A Space Oddyssey (quite different from the movie) (most but not all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels) Amateur Telescope Making Foundation Trilogy Stranger In A Strange Land Time Enough For Love
I need to catch some ZZZs soon so I'll cut this short.
More or less what I'd do is list a bunch of favorites, as being a whole bunch of completely unrelated books and movies, absolutely none of which I'd actually seen nor read, generally having to do with topics that either do not interest me or even offend me.
Daniel Steel is quite popular. I read a few pages of one of her novels it was well-written but I could not conceive of actually reading the whole book.
While this wouldn't stop FB from showing me ads, it would result in a lot of wasted time and effort showing them to me.
What really gets me down, though, is that the vast majority of ads that I see, are offering me attractive women of my own age.
I am fifty-one years old. The one small comfort I take form my divorce, is that Bonita did not want to have children.
As yet, Facebook has yet to offer me a woman who might bear my child. Figure That One Out: many if not most of my FB friends have kids, they are always posting their photos, singing their praises &c.
I always "Like" their posts, commonly reply, sometimes share yet FB has yet to clue in to flogging a way for me to continue the non-quite Eternal swim in the gene pool.
:-(
I haven't seen any movies this year. Not that I don't like that but I've been doing other things.
But I will say that I regard "The President's Analyst" starring the immortal King of Cool James Coburn as the very finest motion picture in all of human history.