[ExI] ACC Video: To Plan for a Century

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Mar 21 21:09:38 UTC 2008


At 01:17 PM 3/21/2008 -0700, John Grigg wrote:

>I found this Arthur C. Clarke gem from the Livescience website:
>
><http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080319-clarke>http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080319-clarke

The visuals at the beginning are unintentionally hilarious--a guy on 
the steps throws something on the ground (hey! no littering, dude!), 
a student in a sparsely filled lecture covers his face then rubs it 
as if trying to stay awake, a girl in bright yellow checks her watch, 
another guy mutters to himself, the Chinese guys look like a cruel 
WWII parody of jutty-toothed chinks, and poor ACC battles with giant 
chartreuse prompt sheets and drones through his bureaubabble, almost 
all his fabled poetry absent. Ah well.

Damien Broderick 




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