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Morgaine Alter
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09-26-2009 20:51
http://www.chooseyoursurrogate.com/?cmp=mov_tch_sur_psg_cast_bruce%20willis%20surrogates

ok now discuss :P
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Scylla Rhiadra
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09-26-2009 20:52
From: Morgaine Alter
http://www.chooseyoursurrogate.com/?cmp=mov_tch_sur_psg_cast_bruce%20willis%20surrogates

ok now discuss :P

OMG. What happened to Bruce Willis's HAIR?????

:eek:
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Lias Leandros
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09-26-2009 21:01
That is one of the movies I am waiting to see. I love myself some Bruce Juice.

The film is a good premise. If we could allow our avatars to take care of our daily activities what would we clear them to do? Mine would need to walk the pug, answer phones and take the subway. I will eat in SoHo and catch kool films.
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Morgaine Alter
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09-26-2009 21:36
I am very interested in this and how ppl see it relate to who knows what future may come ....
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Weston Graves
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09-26-2009 22:16
Based on the graphic novel it says. What graphic novel is that? The concept reminds me a lot of David Brin's "Kiln People." That book had me wishing fervently for several real life avatars.

I heard a science podcast recently that discusses the possibility of this happening soon. There is already a company who offers a kind of mobile teleconference device that can go out on the city streets and into the office for you. The price is in the fancy sports car range - prohibitive to me, but doable. Currently the device doesn't look remotely human I hear.
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Alvaro Zapatero
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09-26-2009 22:27
From: Scylla Rhiadra
OMG. What happened to Bruce Willis's HAIR?????


Oh, come on... he's like 80 years old.

Old men aren't supposed to have much hair.
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Ann Otoole
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09-26-2009 22:36
From: Alvaro Zapatero
Oh, come on... he's like 80 years old.

Old men aren't supposed to have much hair.

CGI baby lol... watch the old movies to ID from whence the images originated.
Ann Otoole
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09-26-2009 22:37
From: Weston Graves
Based on the graphic novel it says. What graphic novel is that? The concept reminds me a lot of David Brin's "Kiln People." That book had me wishing fervently for several real life avatars.

I heard a science podcast recently that discusses the possibility of this happening soon. There is already a company who offers a kind of mobile teleconference device that can go out on the city streets and into the office for you. The price is in the fancy sports car range - prohibitive to me, but doable. Currently the device doesn't look remotely human I hear.

Making such extremely realistic robots are a high priority in Japan. Look there for what is to come.
Wynochee LeShelle
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09-26-2009 22:57
From: Scylla Rhiadra
OMG. What happened to Bruce Willis's HAIR?????

:eek:


It was wandering in direction of his mouth to be able to catch some food - occasionally.

Especially since his hair heard about the benefits for hair, given by caffeine . Caffeine Shampoo is *the* trend this year. But Bruce doesn't use shampoo, so: in result his hair moved in direction his coffee-port. And see: it is growing there like palm-trees around an oasis.
Scylla Rhiadra
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09-26-2009 23:38
From: Wynochee LeShelle
It was wandering in direction of his mouth to be able to catch some food - occasionally.

Especially since his hair heard about the benefits for hair, given by caffeine . Caffeine Shampoo is *the* trend this year. But Bruce doesn't use shampoo, so: in result his hair moved in direction his coffee-port. And see: it is growing there like palm-trees around an oasis.

Oh now, that's just ICKY!

:D
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Jig Chippewa
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09-27-2009 00:28
Please dont be so gross. I am trying to clean this place up in time for Disney.
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Ann Otoole
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09-27-2009 00:40
From: Jig Chippewa
Please dont be so gross. I am trying to clean this place up in time for Disney.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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09-27-2009 02:16
From: Weston Graves
What graphic novel is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrogates
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Ponsonby Low
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09-27-2009 02:26
From: Ann Otoole
Making such extremely realistic robots are a high priority in Japan.



Well, making extremey realistic FEMALE robots, anyway.

Yes indeed, when we finally get to the "Surrogates" stage of robotics, we'll find that RL is exactly like SL: 80% of people will run female 'selves'.
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09-27-2009 13:05
Here's my surrogate: http://www.chooseyoursurrogate.com/vsi/index.html?uid=1&mId=31605815.2 or if that doesn't work perhaps this: http://tinyurl.com/ydqe27y

The US female voices are not nearly as good as the others, hence the UK accented voice.
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Weston Graves
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09-27-2009 13:37
That was way cool. I tried it with a high school photo of myself (my keyboard guy rather). Yes, they did have photographs back then.

What a geek he was!
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09-27-2009 15:34
They don't seem to be able to handle ferrets.
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Dagmar Heideman
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09-27-2009 17:54
I saw Surrogates this weekend. It's a pretty depressing world IMO. People are pretty much plugged into their Surrogates all the time, only unplugging to eat and sleep. A very negative message about what a society can become with that kind of technology.
Raudf Fox
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09-27-2009 17:58
I'd like one to help me do stuff, not do it all for me. I like experiencing things for myself, so I guess what I'd have the surrogate do the dishes, laundry and clean the cat litter boxes. I might have them help me in jobs requiring two people to accomplish...
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09-27-2009 19:16
From: Weston Graves
Based on the graphic novel it says. What graphic novel is that? The concept reminds me a lot of David Brin's "Kiln People." That book had me wishing fervently for several real life avatars.

I heard a science podcast recently that discusses the possibility of this happening soon. There is already a company who offers a kind of mobile teleconference device that can go out on the city streets and into the office for you. The price is in the fancy sports car range - prohibitive to me, but doable. Currently the device doesn't look remotely human I hear.

I was thinking Marionettes Incorporated but then I cut my teeth reading Bradbury's short stories.
Dagmar Heideman
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09-27-2009 19:20
From: Raudf Fox
I'd like one to help me do stuff, not do it all for me. I like experiencing things for myself, so I guess what I'd have the surrogate do the dishes, laundry and clean the cat litter boxes. I might have them help me in jobs requiring two people to accomplish...
It doesn't work that way in the movie. You are either living through your surrogate or you are living through your own body. If your surrogate is doing the dishes, laundry and cleaning, you are piloting it immobile from a chair so you're really not doing anything else, and of course, you can't do things that require 2 people to accomplish.
Jade Angkarn
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09-27-2009 21:03
From: Dagmar Heideman
I saw Surrogates this weekend. It's a pretty depressing world IMO. People are pretty much plugged into their Surrogates all the time, only unplugging to eat and sleep. A very negative message about what a society can become with that kind of technology.

Sounds like some people's experience of SL...

(Currently unplugged)