George Lucas’ “THX 1138″
Monday November 09th 2009, 5:19 pm
Filed under: The Future of Science Fiction
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Our brainstorm reveals the distopic and non-specific future world of THX 1138 to be composed of many assumptions;

neurological and biochemical surveillance
biochemical conditioning
torture
brainwashing
androids subject to malfunction
nuclear powered androids
cyber religion
obilgatory sedation
obilgatory abstinence
sterile environment
stimulus neutral
underground city
references to a “superstructure”
artificial light
persecution of criminals is limited by fixed budgetary constraints
gunless society
energy weapons
mass conformity
heirarchical social structure
automated mating
artificial births
molecular cuisine


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Outstanding Solutions presents live-hologram in Potsdam

in this press release from nov 13th 2008 you can read more about this presentation, quite interesting:

http://www.openpr.de/news/259341/Outstanding-Solutions-praesentierte-erstmals-Live-Hologramm-in-Potsdam.html

You can also watch a video about what happened in Potsdam that night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gKSM59iEqY

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Comment by Tatyana & Sevgi 11.09.09 @ 5:20 pm

Holographic entertainment
Das hochauflösende Fernsehen “HDTV” ist derzeit in aller Munde. Doch technisch ist viel mehr möglich. So haben Forscher längst Wege gefunden, eine Art dreidimensionales Hologramm-Bild mitten in einen Raum zu projizieren. Die Resultate sind äußerst beeindruckend.(Welt-Online)

http://www.welt.de/webwelt/article3383862/So-funktionieren-die-neuen-Hologramm-Fernseher.html

http://www.seereal.com/

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Comment by Stephan Tillmans 11.09.09 @ 5:21 pm

ritalin is a drug, similar to cocaine, which enabels you to work faster and more concentrated.
This drug is mostly prescribed to young children.

America consume’s 80-85% of the Ritalin produced in the world, and an estimated 3-5% of all American children take Ritalin and other psychostimulants.

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/3/0/6/p243069_index.html

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Comment by nino 11.09.09 @ 5:26 pm

In April 2008 the israeli military has first introduced robocops at the israeli border – but watch the video for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLKbInFVTRo&feature=player_embedded

machines are seen as the future of warfare – efficient killing / no loss of men / no emotions involved.

Isn’t that thought quite scary?

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Comment by Tatyana & Sevgi 11.09.09 @ 5:31 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJdELEadnW8

the movie reminds us of the 2002 movie “equilibrium” by kurt wimmer.
mass conformity,brainwashing,stimulus neurtal, heirarchical social structures are related elements in this movie.

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Comment by Lars, Greta 11.09.09 @ 5:37 pm

Interview mit Dr. Claus-M. Wolfschlag über dystopische Filme

Herr Dr. Wolfschlag beschäftigt sich seit Jahren intensiv mit Science-Fiction Filmen und
schreibt regelmäßig für die „Enzyklopädie des phantastischen Films“ (Meitingen).

http://home.arcor.de/c.wolfschlag/c.wolfschlag/QM107-108.pdf

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Comment by marcos.oliveira 11.09.09 @ 5:41 pm

brainwashing:

Die ersten Forschungen über den Einsatz von Mikrowellenwaffen und deren Gebrauch zur Bewusstseinskontrolle begann in den 50er Jahren am Tavistock Institute, einer der führenden britischen psychiatrischen Forschungseinrichtungen.
In der “news4press” berichtete man von “Gehirnwäsche durch Funktechnik “.

http://www.news4press.com/Gehirnwaesche-durch-Funktechnik_472796.html

http://www.tavinstitute.org/

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Comment by Nadine 11.09.09 @ 5:51 pm

Wie reagiert ein Individuum auf eine völlig reizarme Umgebung?
Und was passiert, wenn in dieser Situation gezielt Stimuli anbietet?
Mit der ” Skinner-Box” gewann die Verhaltens-Physiologie neue Erkenntnisse im Bereich des “Behaviorismus” und der “operante Konditionierung”

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner-Box
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_box

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepqpTtKbwo&feature=PlayList&p=221DA5C3323EE9BB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeLzfP8tCA&feature=related

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Comment by david 11.09.09 @ 5:57 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY98Vp2MJyU&feature=player_embedded
tom cruise is talking about scientology…totally brainwashed!
he’s trying to convince people to join this sect and is dangerous in fact of his popularity and his influence to the masses.

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Comment by Lars, Greta 11.09.09 @ 6:01 pm

Dokumentary film about brainwashing in russia.
They use computer programs to “correct” psychological terms of the russian people to make them better socialists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWn3EjOcNI&feature=related

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Comment by Lea Nehring 11.09.09 @ 6:06 pm


Of Russia new police apprentice roboter is absolutely incorruptibly, always friendly and extremely conscientious.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/825/376633/text/

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Comment by Alex 11.09.09 @ 6:09 pm

The whole world of THX 1138 plays in artificial light. If this would be a real scenario, people would react physically and emotionally having to live without sunlight.

Generally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight

wihtout Vitamin D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
http://abcnews.go.com/health/story?id=6006566&page=1

and they would probably suffer of SAD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

The Seasonal Affective Disorder Association
http://www.sada.org.uk/

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gabriel Reply:

This could be a good theory for why the characters in THX 1138 are required to take daily doses of various drugs.

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Comment by Momo 11.09.09 @ 6:33 pm

Underground City:

In my opinion nowadays people are spending much time under the earth’s surface when they are sitting in the subway on there way through the city.

Also there are some houses called “Erdhügelhäuser” which are underground. These houses look like the houses of hobbits in “lord of the rings”. They are save and warm and environmentally friendly.
So, it is really possible that there will be underground cities in the future.

http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/immobilien/article163216/Warm_und_sicher_leben_unter_der_Erde.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVds9GYQ9U

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Comment by Ulrike 11.10.09 @ 10:22 am

microwave weapons

They hurt with electromagnetic power. The ADS weapon’s beam causes pain within 2 to 3 seconds and it becomes intolerable after less than 5 seconds. People’s reflex responses to the pain is expected to force them to move out of the beam before their skin can be burnt.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725095.600

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCfTRECeIjg&feature=PlayList&p=083096441D784E34&index=22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_jCFP3Hsg

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Comment by Christine 11.10.09 @ 9:45 pm

This film reminded me strongly of the “Sensation White” Festival. Everybody there wears white clothes. Like in THX 1138:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/sensation%20white/Babasonicox/SensationWhite.jpg

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Comment by Daniel Brems 11.16.09 @ 10:05 am

It is nothing new that People live in Underground Cities.
In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), was demolishing a wall of his house- cave, and discovered astonished that behind the wall was a mysterious room that never had been seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one… By chance the underground city of Derinkuyu was discovered, whose first level could be excavated by hititas around year 1400 a.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWlXqICyfc

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Comment by Josip 11.16.09 @ 10:31 am

Artificial birth

I found an article from 2002, but all the things mentioned seem to be still in progress and developing, cause almost every website dealing with this subject links back to this article.
Scientists work on “artificial wombs” which could allow the fetus to grow outside of a woman’s body. Apart from giving hope to women with damaged wombs, this also raised a lot of ethical questions and fears.
“Men redundant? Now we don’t need women either”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/feb/10/medicalscience.research

Another article from 2005 about scientist Hung-Ching Liu, who made a mouse embryo grow almost to full term in one of her artificial wombs.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-08/artificial-wombs
I think it’s only a matter of time. The THX 1138 vision is within reach.

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Comment by Nina 11.17.09 @ 12:14 pm

Unterirdische Stadt

Die unterirdische Stadt befindet sich in der Türkei dort werden neben der einen von Derinkuyu noch weitere 49 dieser Städte vermutet. Sie liegt in der Provinz Nevsehir und hat eine Fläche von 2500 Quadratmetern. Entdeckt wurde das Tunnelsystem 1963 durch einen Zufall.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterirdische_Stadt_Derinkuyu

http://www.220.ro/Rrkk4c79n0/Orasul-Subteran-Derinkuyu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQ9O_lT4No&feature=related

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Ulrike Reply:

Wurden die Katakomben nich eher als Grabstätten genutzt als als Städte und richtige Wohnmöglichkeiten? Ich war in den St. Pauls Katakomben auf Malta. War echt super ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZk4-kLcpc&feature=related

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Comment by Ginger 11.23.09 @ 12:35 pm



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