London, 8th November 2012
While 3D movies have been around for a sometime, there seems to be a proliferation of them in the last few years. The technology is definitely much improved from early 3D films. I remember seeing Andy Warhol’s “Flesh for Frankenstein” in the 1970s, a colour, soft-core porn/schlock horror film, when large swathes of the audience besieged the box office half-way through because the 3D not only didn’t work, it was giving everyone who wore the 3D cardboard glasses a headache.
However my beef with 3D movies falls into three scenes- a) It’s not really 3D, b) the 3D can make a good film worse, and rarely if ever makes a good film great, and c) do film producers really know that audiences like and/or want more 3D films? This is my personal view, although I have...
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Dear Hollywood,
The Internet frightens you. But history has taught us that the greatest innovations were built on rejections. The VCR frightened you, but it ended up making billions of dollars in video sales.
You get so comfortable with your ways of doing business that any change is perceived as a threat. The problem is, we as a society don't have a choice: The law of human nature is to communicate more efficiently. And the economic benefits of high-speed Internet and unlimited cloud storage are so great that we need to plan for the day when the transfer of terabytes of data will be measured in seconds.
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Businesses and individuals will keep looking for faster connectivity...
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