{"id":3167,"date":"2012-03-05T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2012-03-05T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:02:12","slug":"imagining-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clever viral video clip for the forthcoming movie <em>Prometheus <\/em>(the kinda-sorta prequel to <em>Alien<\/em>) has been making the rounds. In the clip, fictional tech titan Peter Weyland (founder of what will become the Weyland-Yutani Corporation) delivers a rousing address to a futuristic TED conference in 2023. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2BxH-xwc9M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Rosenberg, a smart blogger who blogs smart things at ThinkProgress, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2012\/03\/02\/435684\/prometheus-ted-talks-and-the-evolution-of-the-future\/\">praises the clip<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>I think what I like about this is not just that the clip gives me a sense of what the movie is going to be like, but that it\u2019s a bit of connective tissue between this world and our own. For me, a lot of what\u2019s fun about near-future science fiction is a sense of what will survive from one era into the next, whether it\u2019s jazz on Mars in Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s Mars trilogy, eighties pop culture in <em>Ready Player One<\/em>, or a version of TED that kind of looks like it got mashed up with the Old Republic\u2019s Senate Chambers.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood is becoming quite adept at creating bits of viral marketing like this that are designed to get people talking about a movie or TV show. And Guy Pearce does a really great job of making Weyland a compelling character over the span of just a few minutes. It&#8217;s like he decided to channel the combined egos of Steve Jobs and Richard Branson and then thought to himself, &#8220;Hmm, needs more arrogance.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope Weyland gets some screen time in the actual movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clever viral video clip for the forthcoming movie Prometheus (the kinda-sorta prequel to Alien) has been making the rounds. In the clip, fictional tech titan Peter Weyland (founder of what will become the Weyland-Yutani Corporation) delivers a rousing address to a futuristic TED conference in 2023. Here&#8217;s the video: Alyssa Rosenberg, a smart blogger <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3167' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeking-out","category-pop-culture","category-17-id","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-P5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}