Monthly Archives: June 2002

Minority Report

In the following, I have left aside criticism of Minority Report as a film and I am focusing more heavily on the way it represents technology half a century into the future. In this, I am following the approach used by Josh Calder on his Web site http://futuristmovies.com.
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Results are in

Evaluations are back from spring semester. A mixed bag. Written responses can be found here.
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If memory serves me right…

Check out the “Iron Chef Drinking Game.” I am still dumbfounded that someone thought that the format of the show was its selling point and that an American version starring William Shatner ever got funded.
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A Modest Grant Proposal

I put together a proposal to fund research for a book about automated public opinion gathering from the Net and sent it off to the Smith Richardson Foundation. The executive summary follows:
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Sequel, then original, then book

This is the review I submitted to IMDB for the Bourne Identity. The short version: rental, unless you’ve never seen the original film or read the book and are desperate :).
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Life Immitating Art?

What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed… yet? (tagline for the new Fox film Minority Report) “Jose Padilla, the American citizen accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in the U.S., is just one of many ‘would-be killers’ the United States has arrested, President Bush [...]
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Creating Buffalo

An article in the Buffalo News today discusses how Richard Florida’s ideas about the creative class might affect Buffalo. It’s a little funny that this has been so embraced here, given that Buffalo (and it seems Florida was once a prof here) ends up the fourth from the bottom of the list of creative cities.
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