Word: visioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Their most glamorous imaginary weapon is not free speech or free software or even free music. It is free money, anonymous electronic cash and untraceable digital funds, free of all government oversight and laundered over the Internet. Dotcom stocks have turned out to be surprisingly close to this utopian vision. They are rather destabilizing...
There are two fields in which I'm anxious to see technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...
...watch leather-lunged TV megachef Emeril Lagasse, you've probably heard him lament the limitations of his medium: "Oooh! I can't wait till we get Smell-o-Vision so you can smell this at home...
Well, bad news, Em. Despite the old Bugs Bunny cartoon (in which a futuristic headline proclaims SMELL-O-VISION REPLACES TELEVISION!), scented TV is still unlikely to be in our parlors 20 years from now. (Emeril, alas, very likely will.) The reason is less technical than economic. Smell can theoretically be digitized, and there are researchers working to do exactly that. But Smell-o-Vision was tried years ago--with varying degrees of technical sophistication--in movie theaters. Now it's gone. Shockingly, audiences have failed to protest...
...buck up, Emeril. We may never get Smell-o-Vision to the viewers. Sell-o-Vision, though, is coming with a vengeance...