Re: [ProgSoc] The Matrix

[Christian Kent <ckent@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Steve Agland wrote:

> Nice work, I'll know where to look. Probably be seeing it tomorrow
> night. 

Me too.  Ah, which cinema is it playing in?  Because you still need to
tell the Union desk whether or not you need Village tickets, don't you?

> PS You wouldn't happen to be a Doctor Who fan by any chance? :)

<puts away question-mark umbrella>  Why, are you?  I just found it a bit
of a coincidence that they used the exact same name for a VR environment.
Douglas Adams also describes the "computer" of the future to work in the
same "undefinable" way (in _Mostly Harmless_ I think); it's so easy to see
the sci-fi roots of "The Matrix".

Within that paradigm, Douglas also talked about a little instrument which
appears to pre-empt the design of Microsoft Wallet.  I'm not too sure
Douglas is too proud of that though.

BTW I got my copy of Starship Titanic this week  <grin>  "Starship Titanic
is big.  Really big.  You might think Microsoft Encarta is big, that's
peanuts compared to Starship Titanic" ... goes the manual.

CK.

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