| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
The vast media conglomerate, Disney-MCA-Time-Warner-Universal, has
pulled off the real estate deal of the century. They have bought
the entire Los Angeles basin. Their plan: to turn it into the
world's largest theme park. More than an theme park, it is to be
a theme world, with real, functioning societies from various
historical periods. Visitors will come and immerse themselves in
different times and places. Instead of being passively
shepherded along on rides, they will live and speak as courtiers
and courtesans, as pirates and princesses. The residents are all
being, ahem, re-skilled as actors. Fortunately, not many need to switch.
The problem is: what periods should be chosen? What times and
cultures offer the maximum in romance, adventure, and fun for the
whole family?
/jlr
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| 894.1 | WR1FOR::HOGGE_SK | Dragon Slaying...No Waiting! | Tue Jul 31 1990 19:41 | 3 | |
Hmmmm West World Revisited?
Skip
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| 894.2 | Did I mention that I'm hostile toward TV? | DOOLIN::HNELSON | Thu Aug 02 1990 11:30 | 21 | |
*Nice* random question!
This occurs in the future, of course, and extrapolation shows that in
the near-term that 90% of U.S. citizens will be watching TV through-out
their waking hours (with audio from missed programs murmuring during
their sleep). Therefore all they'll know is what they've seen on the
cube. Therefore the park will be comprised of SETS of their favorite
programs.
Naturally, since there's a comparatively finite set of hit programs,
the Park will have LOTS of duplication of sets. Actors will be trained
en masse to fill the then-equivalents of today's Dr. Huxley. Star Trek
the Third after the Next after the Last Generation sets will be
manufactured by the thousands, in mobile factories which emit them
rearward like so much futuristic defecation. Games shows will be very
big, with the tourists winniNg exactly as much as they're willing to pay
for; it will be everyone's favorite way to shop. Everything will be
taped, so the park visitors can go home and watch THEMSELVES on the
cube and FINALLY KNOW THAT THEY ARE REAL.
- Hoyt
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| 894.3 | post-Whimper, too | KISHOR::HIGINBOTHAM | Tarzan vs. IBM | Thu Aug 02 1990 14:26 | 2 |
the pre-Big Bang universe would be interesting ... | |||||