Alita Battle Angel: cybernetic cyborgs, photorealistic cg, and sports plus immortality
Alita \n\n
\u201cThe movie with the cyborgs and the kicking and the punching.\u201d There are two kinds of film: people in a room talking and people in a room kicking and punching. Robert Rodriguez lands firmly within only one of these groups. Accidentally fitting Alita into the Robocop universe. Shooting and punching people in their robo-bits.
\n\n Cyborgs \n\nRobots arms everywhere. But maybe not just for show? Cyborg arms as the cyborg future cliche. Replacing your limbs proactively for fun and profit. Replacing all of your joints, but not just with hinges. Defining \u201ccyborg\u201d more precisely in consideration of the definition of \u201ccybernetics.\u201d
\n\nCybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems\u2014their structures, constraints, and possibilities.
\n\n \n\n \u201cReal\u201d cyborgs \n\nWe are already cyborgs, we just don\u2019t ourselves enough credit. Cyborgification as performance. Designing a new hearing aid to help us talk to bats.Imagining all the ways in which implanted and attached technologies would help improve the human experience. And what do we get? Always super-strong robot arms. Realizing you would need the whole-system upgrade to support the forces exerted upon/by your super-arm.
\n\n Doing it right \n\nDon\u2019t be a cyborg bicep bro. Taking the short route to functional cyborg limbs by using existing neuromuscular wiring. The difficulty of inventing new appendages or body formats.
\n\n Photorealistic CG humans \n\nWow dude this was actually pretty great. Sidestepping the uncanny valley slightly by going with anime eyes. Aperture and catching more light. Legolas with dinner-plate eyeballs. Neoteny.
\n\n Nonsensical murder sports \n\nFuture cybersports: more violent spectacle, less athleticism. Sports and functional immortality.
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