Surrogates

The film Surrogates is due to be released here on the 24th. I'm intrigued by this because it seems to be a "reverse second life" and "reverse matrix". Rather than have one's avatar in a virtual world, in this film one has one's avatar in the real world! See the trailer below:

I can't help but feeling that ultimately this would defeat the point of having an avatar or surrogate. After all, if you can project your consciousness into a robotic puppet and stay home, why would there still be public transport and commuting (which can be seen in the trailer). Why not have one surrogate at work, which lives in storage when not activated, and others elsewhere? Also such a development would be mostly for the rich or middle classes. It seems hard to image folk on the poverty line bothering with such.

I wonder if other issues will come out in this. Will the final appearance of surrogates have any relevance to their owner's appearance at all? Shall have to wait and see.

Photo Essay - Barnsley fires

Some photos from this morning when I took the dogs for a walk, a week after a local bush fire. Also see my Google map.

This map shows the area of local bushland burnt in 2000 (yellow) and the area burnt a week ago (red). The indicator at bottom right shows the location of my home

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Bored

I'm bored right now and ought to go to sleep. I did none of the things I should have done today. Don't know about tomorrow, but there are things I do need to do because of external deadlines, so maybe I'll stay home tomorrow and tackle those.