Breitbart:
Denis Villeneuve, director of the hit sci-fi franchise Dune, expressed dismay about how individualism has suffered during the age of Big Tech.
Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Villeneuve lamented that “human beings are ruled by algorithms right now,” adding that he keeps a strict no cell phone policy on his movie sets.
“We behave like AI circuits. The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries. We’re disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways. It’s frightening,” he said.
When reporter Glenn Whipp noted that Villeneuve had been checking his phone while sharing those discomforting thoughts, he said that proved his point.
“There’s something addictive about the fact that you can access any information, any song, any book,” he said. “It’s compulsive. It’s like a drug. I’m very tempted to disconnect myself. It would be fresh air.” more here
I thought David Lynch directed “Dune.”
It would be great to be able to say the jig is up, but we’re not even close to understanding the hologram in which we’re living.
If you’ve been a student of Biblical truth being confirmed by science — and the rate at which it is — you’ll know that we live in a 4-dimension universe that has, by most accounts, 6 additional dimensions and perhaps 1 or 2 more than that.
I see through a glass darkly, but I am curious-er and curious-er about the so-called parallel realities occupied, at least theoretically, by the dark forces (“in the heavenly places”) that impinge upon our 4 dimensions, and how that is accomplished. Via our digital technologies?
Avoid the ckick-bait; make friends, go to church, volunteer somewhere.
We need Jesus more than ever
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
-Frank Herbert, “Dune”
My advice… hang on to your books! They can’t change those!
Facts on the internets are an endangered species.
Count me out, I am not a Dune fane and never have been. I prefer Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Clifford D Simak, even Edgar Rice Burroughs etc., the space operas of EE “Doc” Smith, CS Lewis’s space trilogy and old-fashioned science fiction.
Dune fan, hey it’s still early, 6:38 PST. And the sun doesn’t rise for another hr.
geoff the aardvark
Sunday, 29 December 2024, 9:38 at 9:38 am
“Count me out, I am not a Dune fane and never have been.”
…if you read all the FRANK Herbert books and not the canon-breaking ones written by his son after he passed, the whole point of them is never trust a human who claims to be a messiah, it will only end in tyranny and death.
As will humans using machines to enslave other humans.
All going back to “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
A very present message that was pretty well presented.
…In the books. The movies cant really capture it…
Maybe it’s because of the Dune movies, an author’s books are almost always better than their movie versions with a few exceptions. Reading books stimulates my already wild imagination, movies only give an imaginary glimpse of what you read in a book. I have always been a book person over their movie adaptations.
Hmmmmm…
Is there a new “DUNE” movie coming out soon?
He’s got to draw attention to it somehow to get people to go to the theaters.
Algorithm = numbers = products of the human imagination = do not exist in reality = self deception
And I thought that algorithms meant that Al Gore has rhythm.
See “Mendelbrot Set”. It’s divine.