I recently online searched for newspaper reports of The Carrington Event. They said it was beautiful but problems with the telegraph prevented them from getting news about it.

Same goes for Bladerunner '82

you aint ever lied!!!

We're about to find out. Look what's happening to Federal web sites.

freedom would happen.

Erase the cloud? About as easy as turning off Skynet. Geographically Dispersed Storage and Computing. Never gonna happen.

By an EMP?

@@matthewbradley3395 All data centers throughout the world are nuclear targets.

Or perhaps google has come full circle back to zero.

@The Hooded Claw because he's wrong; it's not a 'fascist' gov't (as if there's a lick of difference between fascists and communists anyway) ... it's a corporatist gov't. Not fascism but feudalism.

@@Hiraghm It all feudalism, there are only free economies, and command economies.

There's a clever lack of information concealing the true nature of this government. Not communism, capitalism, facism. Unknown

Agreed, but that was the style of the film. More than 50 per cent surreal

Wow

Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 45: IV. Allegro non troppo

@@Baardaasvoel thanks!

im interested in that. might be a directors cut out there

@@WokerThanThou ... fun that you have left a comment. (Good job) Further: Do not recognize this scene, so there are perhaps more scene variants around the "floating supercomputer collapse" My "variant" was that it was the supercomputer that vebally responded to the "question" that: "Unfortunately I do not remember" type. If I find other "haircuts," I will answer. on this thread. / R

How is 13th century a tautology? I see how the medieval or pre-democratic, before liberty times would be very similar to a future of fascism though.

Zero has all the information in the world on the 13th century. He is confused because he possibly cannot differentiate between the 13th Century and the early 21st Century. The 13th Century was well before Erasmus, Petrarch, and even Boccaccio. There is no "Humanism" in the 13th Century, and there is a lack of it during the 21st, when Rollerball takes place. Just an opinion.

Can't say I'm very well up on Erasmus, Petrarch and Boccaccio. But I think that sounds right, the opposite ideas that the setting, the society that Rollerball is founded in, which is far from human, or humane. Strong satirical allusion, or could it be more literal? After all, Zero is a highly intelligent machine being held to ransom by scientists. Perhaps it doesn't like anything human sounding, or useful to the well being of people. It hints that it may destroy, wipe and 'kill' the humane deliberately.

The point here is that *nothing much* happened in the past- just a lot of *disease and starvation.* This is a portrait of a society that now, only lives in the *present-* much like _animals_ do.

@@therespectedlex9794 I wouldn't be surprised if the comment about the 13th Century being lost is a reference to Aquinas and an allusion to natural law. The whole arc of Jonathan E (mourning the dissolution of his first marriage, refusing to euthanize MoonPie, his defiance of the rationalistic corporate system) seems based upon Aquinas' idea that certain concepts regarding morality and order are embedded in the human soul and cannot be simply displaced by environment.

Recently.

Also Aquinas. The intellectual development in the 13th Century was far different from the popular understanding.

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