Comments on: Your Message Here: Salons, Sponsors, Pay-to-Play & Journalism http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/07/14/your-message-here-salons-sponsors-pay-to-play-journalism/ Rory O'Connor's blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Lee Ferrell http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/07/14/your-message-here-salons-sponsors-pay-to-play-journalism/#comment-72284 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:51:09 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/07/14/your-message-here-salons-sponsors-pay-to-play-journalism/#comment-72284 Recall "Blade Runner," based on Phillip I. Dick's _Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep_(Harrison Ford/Ruter Hauer? Aside from its virtuosity, the society it depicts is one where the plutocrats have to live +_HIGH_+ above the streets, which are far too dangerous. Mutoids scavenging every bit of metal they can find, to sell. It is a world where influence is only available to those w/ funds enough to build more gargantuan apartment buildings to stay far above the common fray. (Leads to "Soylent Green?) Lots of sci-fi work in the past has come real, tho' in forms no one could imagine. We are taking ever-faster steps to that dystopian future where pay-to-play will be, ever more, til "666" rides across the sky and takes all the virtuous farther up. 10-20 years, we won't recongnise the media-scape. "Pop Tech," a PBS special says everyone on the planet will have access to personal solar panels, pre-fab homes of compressed recycled material, growing food in hydroponic gardens on all roofs, & instant commumication so tiny it is imbedded in our brains w/ a needle.... Oh, and instant gratification too, like Woody Allen's "Orgasmitron." Tech wizards, apparently, are supposed to dream big, insulated from reality, and "go where no one has gone," like da Vinci..., who did not do so well at being insulated from the power core then: The Catholic Church. Change is gonna' come..., whether it will be harmonious is moot. It just come. Ryokan Recall “Blade Runner,” based on Phillip I. Dick’s _Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep_(Harrison Ford/Ruter Hauer? Aside from its virtuosity, the society it depicts is one where the plutocrats have to live +_HIGH_+ above the streets, which are far too dangerous. Mutoids scavenging every bit of metal they can find, to sell. It is a world where influence is only available to those w/ funds enough to build more gargantuan apartment buildings to stay far above the common fray. (Leads to “Soylent Green?) Lots of sci-fi work in the past has come real, tho’ in forms no one could imagine.

We are taking ever-faster steps to that dystopian future where pay-to-play will be, ever more, til “666″ rides across the sky and takes all the virtuous farther up. 10-20 years, we won’t recongnise the media-scape. “Pop Tech,” a PBS special says everyone on the planet will have access to personal solar panels, pre-fab homes of compressed recycled material, growing food in hydroponic gardens on all roofs, & instant commumication so tiny it is imbedded in our brains w/ a needle…. Oh, and instant gratification too, like Woody Allen’s “Orgasmitron.”

Tech wizards, apparently, are supposed to dream big, insulated from reality, and “go where no one has gone,” like da Vinci…, who did not do so well at being insulated from the power core then: The Catholic Church.

Change is gonna’ come…, whether it will be harmonious is moot. It just come.

Ryokan

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