If you haven't read Huxley's books "Brave New World" and "Brave New World Revisited" you really need to read them. In my opinion Huxley's work was much better than Orwell's. For one thing Huxley gets into the details of the mechanisms that will be used. Huxley was actually Orwell's teacher in school.
When I read Brave New World, I thought that Huxley must be a prophet because he predicted so many things back in the 1920s that didn't come to be until many years later... Birth control pills, test tube babies, cloning humans, modern music delivery systems (ie CDs), unrestrained sex, unrestrained psychotropic drug use, etc...
Only a few years ago I found out the truth -- Huxley was not a prophet, he was part of the NWO. He wrote out the NWOs vision for the future. The reason these speculated things all became real was because the NWO invested a lot of money and effort into bringing their vision to fruition.
I heard about laser recording of music back in the 60s in school. Scientists were working on laser tech to record data in a block of crystal by changing small spots within the crystal. It was a 3D system, and they said that, when perfected, all the music ever created could be recorded digitally in a single crystal the size of a cigar box. That beats the crap out of the CDs we finally got in the 80s. So some things have an older history than most people realize. I never heard about the crystal recording after that one article. It was a science paper similar to Weekly Reader that we got in science classes in high school once a month. I still have some of them.
Keep in mind that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1920s. I don't remember now what he called the music delivery system, but it was definitely something that could encapsulate CDs and the crystal system you described... it did not describe a phonograph with records. That crystal system may still come to be!
I really could get into orwell, but for some reason i couldn't click on to the imagery that Huxley was writing in his book. I did read it but i was confused the whole time. I haven't tried it since.
Read his second book BNW Revisited. In it he looks back at what he got right in the first one and expands on it. He was the one that said science would have to invent a "happy pill" for the masses to keep them from being so depressed they wouldn't work. This was before anti-depressants.
I recall that part. I think the part i was struggling with was trying to envision the setting, i recall he didn't really flesh that out, and i felt like i was in a classroom with some doctors and students and such. It really took me out of it, but i'll try read the BNW revisited
Do you guys remember this short story written by either Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut (I think) from back in the 1960s or 1970s?
It takes place in a futuristic time when wealthy persons have a 'media room' where all four walls are ceiling-to-floor TV screens? Each wall has a projection of the program filmed from that angle, so if you sit or stand in the middle of the room it is as though you are in fact, an actor within a full 3D show.
The story goes on to tell how all of the housewives pay a subscription fee to be a character within the show and have their own personal name broadcast from their speakers as they watch. They are even mailed a 'script' to perform.
In the story, the women become so involved in these 'soap operas' that they become the character, crying when the love interest rejects them, sad when a character dies, and eventually becoming so imbedded in the artificial/virtual world that they will not leave the house and participate in actual reality.
If you haven't read Huxley's books "Brave New World" and "Brave New World Revisited" you really need to read them. In my opinion Huxley's work was much better than Orwell's. For one thing Huxley gets into the details of the mechanisms that will be used. Huxley was actually Orwell's teacher in school.
When I read Brave New World, I thought that Huxley must be a prophet because he predicted so many things back in the 1920s that didn't come to be until many years later... Birth control pills, test tube babies, cloning humans, modern music delivery systems (ie CDs), unrestrained sex, unrestrained psychotropic drug use, etc...
Only a few years ago I found out the truth -- Huxley was not a prophet, he was part of the NWO. He wrote out the NWOs vision for the future. The reason these speculated things all became real was because the NWO invested a lot of money and effort into bringing their vision to fruition.
I heard about laser recording of music back in the 60s in school. Scientists were working on laser tech to record data in a block of crystal by changing small spots within the crystal. It was a 3D system, and they said that, when perfected, all the music ever created could be recorded digitally in a single crystal the size of a cigar box. That beats the crap out of the CDs we finally got in the 80s. So some things have an older history than most people realize. I never heard about the crystal recording after that one article. It was a science paper similar to Weekly Reader that we got in science classes in high school once a month. I still have some of them.
Keep in mind that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1920s. I don't remember now what he called the music delivery system, but it was definitely something that could encapsulate CDs and the crystal system you described... it did not describe a phonograph with records. That crystal system may still come to be!
I really could get into orwell, but for some reason i couldn't click on to the imagery that Huxley was writing in his book. I did read it but i was confused the whole time. I haven't tried it since.
Read his second book BNW Revisited. In it he looks back at what he got right in the first one and expands on it. He was the one that said science would have to invent a "happy pill" for the masses to keep them from being so depressed they wouldn't work. This was before anti-depressants.
I recall that part. I think the part i was struggling with was trying to envision the setting, i recall he didn't really flesh that out, and i felt like i was in a classroom with some doctors and students and such. It really took me out of it, but i'll try read the BNW revisited
Do you guys remember this short story written by either Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut (I think) from back in the 1960s or 1970s?
It takes place in a futuristic time when wealthy persons have a 'media room' where all four walls are ceiling-to-floor TV screens? Each wall has a projection of the program filmed from that angle, so if you sit or stand in the middle of the room it is as though you are in fact, an actor within a full 3D show.
The story goes on to tell how all of the housewives pay a subscription fee to be a character within the show and have their own personal name broadcast from their speakers as they watch. They are even mailed a 'script' to perform.
In the story, the women become so involved in these 'soap operas' that they become the character, crying when the love interest rejects them, sad when a character dies, and eventually becoming so imbedded in the artificial/virtual world that they will not leave the house and participate in actual reality.
ARE WE THERE NOW??
3,000 square foot is not a mansion.
That's what I was going to say. My house is ordinary and has a bit more than that. And I have a lot more than 12,000 square feet of property too.
Also, half a million dollars won't touch a real mansion. For that you need 10+.