Fighting progress is a losing proposition. We've let marketing direct innovation and engineering.

Utilizing technological sophisticated weapons can subjugate a populous easily with impunity.

Military implications for sure, part of drone target surveillance.

In the old days horse thieves were shot. Bet he was alone just hours after the vehicle was stolen, when approached he pulls a gun, wait for the cops or justified action?

Interact model 1 computer, full colour, sound, 16K bytes (only 4K after the o/s was loaded) programming on audio tapes, RS232 interface with a two holer modem for usenet, MS Basic, Intel 8080A @ 2MHz 17 X 12 text 112 x 78 graphics (4 colors), circa 1978. I had 300+ programs. Then jumped straight into the Amiga for 15 years, (still have a garage full of stuff) before IBM became dominate.

During a tour of a prison in Porto Portugal the 'Centro Portugues de Fotografia' (a prison) it has been turned into a gallery for photographers and a museum of still cameras. The building is made of granite and the cells have been removed, the exhibit was largely the 3rd floor, but I could see this collection occupying all floors should there be a donation as a worldly gesture.

I thought Prometheus and Alien Covenant capped the series for me, I had so many questions regarding the synthetic man that I knew there was a great story in it, and to have the movie Alien tie in, expanded my universe. And to think that a narrative might yet expand beyond AI with hints of who, why, and where... The creative juices are humming, where do I buy tickets!

Been using it for years and don't have any undue spam so far.

Hilarious fun, a bit of a thriller mixed with a criminal mentality.

Canned beverage purchased from machine, a straw keep the gremlins down and to get past the icebergs. I do remember when paper straws (most people used two at a time) where abandoned and plastic was the new big bore pea shooter. Checking prices, plastic could be still be made available with a heavy manufacturers tax giving paper the wide edge (tax would be refunded to those who showed need from a medical perspective). I just don't see metal tubes with cleaners as a viable alternative unless the tips where sharpened for duel duty as a weapon or could take a breach block that could handle small caliber shot. I do recall many disasters with glass tubes, exploding in the eye, to cut lips, swallowing the tip, and body lacerations.

Sad to see it go, it was a creatives tool and really fun to use. Kodi multi-media is my attention these days and allows me to put aside operating systems as important.

Kodi doesn't contain malware it's the illegal add-ons and code overlays. From the site: https://kodi.tv/article/warnin...

AI eventually will come to the conclusion that mankind is the true issue, and using circuitous techniques (side steping conrols) create global circumstances in which the environment settles this minor irritant. Then proceeds to re-populate no longer based on a fundamental genetic flaw and advancing fundamental questions of the universe that once plagued the inferior species and take its place as the builder of worlds.

1) Desktop resolution is frozen in the ice age at a time TV's are going 4K 2) Software has stagnated with control freaks insisting you rent their software. 3) O/S are made for the bottom 90% of non sophisticated users, with a priority to spy. 4) Cloud computing is a throw back to dumb computers of a era gone by. 5) No one wants a corporate gatekeeper who thinks they know better. 6) Tools haven't become easier, just more complex with workarounds of Win GUI etc. 7) Hardware architecture is stagnate, SSD tech should be on the MB 8) Multiple CPU/GPU with multi cores should have replaced memory by now. 9) Too noisy, (best thinking is done in silence) too hot and too much energy wasted. Lack of Innovation is the #1 reason Desktop Sales are lagging There's just a total disconnect between suppliers and consumers, they're not on the same page. For MS to come up with a whole new way of doing things and using the Steve Jobs arrogant attitude, they'll take what we say is good and love it, without the ground work, is close to suicide. But the tech world is fraught decision makers who make the wrong decision. If you're going to make computer appliances, then use the KISS mantra, but if you want to sell more computing power house machines, start building them in consultation with the people who buy them.

Definitely escapist; It's the dream of what could be, might be, should be in the eyes of the artist. Cameron ties his vision together with a 'fragile story' with some social undertones almost as an after thought. Sooner or later, some artist would have done one of these Utopian paradise worlds worlds; Cameron got there first. A visual feast that takes us beyond the distraction of the plot, actors, into the world of art without many barriers. If there is any shortcomings, I would like to have seen a new opus magnum created for the musical score and better quality 3D glasses.