Pop culture has always informed our view of technology. When freed from the constraints of reality, writers and directors are able to dream up what seem like wholly unrealistic tools and toys for the sake of creating an exciting universe in which a film’s characters can play. In the process, these movies provide the inspiration for people to go out and create real-world analogues. Look no further than Martin Cooper, who cited Captain Kirk and his communicator as providing the push he needed to create the world’s first handheld cellular phone. Movies are a playground, where we can show ourselves how technology can change the world. Then, we go out and make it happen.
But there are some movies help us look before we leap. They provide insight into what can happen when technology goes awry, when robots gain too much power, or when time travel falls into the wrong hands.
But there are some movies help us look before we leap. They provide insight into what can happen when technology goes awry, when robots gain too much power, or when time travel falls into the wrong hands.
- 1/3/2013
- by Matt Dusenbury
- Obsessed with Film
Lisa Kudrow hosted the 2011 15th Annual Webby Awards at the Hammerstein Ballroom (here are the winners) and of the five word acceptance speeches here is the best, coming from journalist/activist (and Special Achievement Award winner) Dan Savage; "Tracy Morgan can suck my…" More five word speech highlights are below. Here's more on the It Gets Better movement, which Dan Savage started. - James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem for Artist of the Year: "Thanks, this is deeply weird." - Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: "It's short for group coupon." - Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, for his Special Recognition Award: "Can you hear me now?" - Wieden + Kennedy for Agency of the Year: "Anonymous, we thank you, anonymously." - Chris Milk for Online ...
- 6/14/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
The speeches were five words long, the winners had been announced a month before the show, and host Lisa Kudrow's first punchlines involved the likes of cellphone inventor Martin Cooper and the British physicist Tim Burners Lee. The 15th Annual Webby Awards, an occasionally kinetic, frequently lurching and determinedly irreverent yearly tribute to the best and brightest (and, crucially, often the funniest) in digital media, took place at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Monday night, but mostly it took place on the internet, streamed live via a variety of...
- 6/14/2011
- The Wrap
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