[extropy-chat] Re: Century City: The law show of the future

[David Lubkin]

Attanasio seems to have good and useful intentions, although I'm still 
dismayed that no one with a real sf background is involved with the show.

 From http://tinyurl.com/34a7u --

>"Some things never change -- what people fight over, what they go to court 
>over, and what people want out of life," says Paul Attanasio, show creator 
>and an executive producer. "That hasn't changed since Hammurabi."
>
>Attanasio, who wrote "Quiz Show" and "Donnie Brasco," came up with the 
>idea for this near-future show based on science reports in the news. 
>"Genetic engineering, surveillance technologies, travel to Mars, 
>artificial intelligence, cures for cancer, artificial limbs, artificial 
>eyes," Attanasio rattles off. "It struck me that as a society we are 
>entering a period of unprecedented change that will really affect how we 
>think about ourselves and what we want our lives to look like. And the way 
>we decide, as a community, is through the law. So it occurred to me that 
>if you took a law show, which is a franchise that historically works on 
>television, you could access that emotion. You could basically peek around 
>the corner at stuff happening now."


-- David Lubkin.