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[skyring]

I'm finding all sorts of little snippets of movie from my camera. None of them terribly impressive - mostly to get a sense of place in a way that a photograph or panorama cannot do.

There's a memorial service on nearby Anzac Parade to mark the battle of Long Tan (one of our infantry companies took on a Vietcong battalion and saw them off) and the place has been buzzing with choppers, roads blocked off and so on.

If I step outside I can hear every word of the speeches. Once upon a time I would have drunk this in, but it's been 22 years since I was last in military uniform, and I've stopped caring quite so much.

Watched a new show on TV last night. It's a talk show, but the twist is that the host is a cartoon character. The guests interact with the character in real time, often on the same screen. Of course, it's a bit of a cheat, because what they are doing is capturing the movements and expressions of a human and then rendering them onto an animation frame, but the interesting bit is that it is being done in real time. Live, for all I know.

Twenty odd years ago I considered this sort of thing, when computers were barely able to draw a smiley face. Another twenty years and where will we be?

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[vysion-of-books.livejournal.com]

In twenty years? Probably out of power and in the midst of world poverty.

What? You expected holographic interfaces and fingertip keyboards?