During Universal Access to All Knowledge (which you should listen to) Brewster Kahle talks about the presentation about Googlezon (which you should watch). It is both exciting and scary at the same time. And if that isn’t enough, be sure and read The Infinite Library, which mentions Brewster and comes highly recommended.
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Apparently TiVo is still unhappy with the fact that some of us are doing things are moving content from TiVo to Treo, or anything else that hasn’t been approved of by them. The latest version of the TiVo Desktop makes that more difficult. But for those who know how to use a Hex Editor, not impossible.
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bq.I think that we found ourselves in competition with ourselves. Enterprise in many markets was running against repeats-whether it be cable or syndication-of the original series, Next Generation, Voyager [or] Deep Space Nine. And I think that after 18 years and 624 hours of Star Trek the audience began to have a little bit of overkill with Star Trek, and I think that had a lot to do with it. And I think if you take a look at the last feature film we did, Nemesis, which I still believe was a fine movie, it did two-thirds the business that the previous films had done. So I think it’s, again, another example of the franchise getting a little bit tired. – Rick Berman
bq.Now we finally have first-rate science fiction film and television that are every bit as good as anything going on in print. Charlie Kaufman created the two finest science fiction films of all time so far: “Being John Malkovich” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof have created “Lost,” the finest television science fiction series of all time … so far. Through-line series like Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Alfred Gough’s and Miles Millar’s “Smallville” have raised our expectations of what episodic sci-fi and fantasy ought to be. Whedon’s “Firefly” showed us that even 1930s sci-fi can be well acted and tell a compelling long-term story. Screen sci-fi has finally caught up with written science fiction. We’re in college now. High school is over. There’s just no need for “Star Trek” anymore. – Orson Scott Card I agree with Mr. Card on most of his point except… there is no reason why Star Trek couldn’t be a part of the “first-rate science fiction” that is being producted today. Except that the person who has guided the Trekverse ever since the death of Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, has consistently made decision after decision that ran the franchise into the ground. It has been apparent ever since the days of Babylon 5 and the two most recent shows have driven away Trek Fans at unprecedented levels. I had watched every episode of every season unti last year, which I have consistently described to people as the worst written season in the history of television. The only question I have at this point is how Rick Berman has managed to keep his job this long.
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