[extropy-chat] Pixel Perfect

Johnius Johnius at Genius.UCSD.edu
Thu Jan 29 02:22:18 UTC 2004


  Has anyone checked out the new movie on Disney Channel
called "Pixel Perfect"?  It has a character who is a 
virtual person with holographic projection capability
into the outside world.  At first, she is just a visual
composite of popular teen idols, but she comes to develop
thoughts and feelings of her own (much like the EMH doctor
on the old ST:Voyager series).  That's all old hat by now,
but what I found interesting was when she decided to upload
into the Net.  _That_ was cool.  While vaguely like Tron,
this sequence was one of the closest I've seen to depicting
the subjective experience of an uploaded personality (more
so than the ST:NG episode where the mad scientist type
actually did upload himself into Data).  While the disney-
esqueness of the movie generally didn't agree with me, I think
it did add something to the upload sequence ... making it a 
very human and desirable experience.  It could be seen as a 
very cool intro to what it might be like to upload.  In fact, 
I was even thinking that perhaps someone here had something to
do with that sequence :-)

  She gets quite accustomed to uploading, and somehow 
manages to upload into a server, attach herself to email,
upload into a human brain, and even into the quantum fabric
of reality itself (ok, they probably went too far with this
but it was interesting...).

  If you don't mind the dumbed down popular elements of
a Disney movie, you might want to check this one out ...
or perhaps record it and skip to near the middle for
her upload sequence.

  Out of curiosity, what other movies do you know about
that depict this kind of upload/cyberlife experience?  
The Matrix, of course, but what else?

Johnius



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