"The pirates moved, danced, slept, pooped their eyes, sniggered, drank-really. You realize that they are robots, but you remain dumbfounded by their verisimilitude".
Eco briefly summarizes that there is a vast variety of cities, all with unique histories. The Disney cities provide an infinite number of analysis. My initial reaction to reading the title of the piece was that this is focused on science-fiction. The Walt Disney Corporation has the resources and the power to create these 'robot' cities, the pirates cove and the haunted house are the examples used. Both are dominated by artificial intelligence. These machines replicate and distort reality.
"It is our business not to supply reality but to invent illusions to the conceivable cannot be presented". Lyotard falls in line with Disney's business model, of the creation of fantasy. These unreal places are places of commerce etc.
Routine and predictability are not my friends. Living in the world that we live in, it is easy to draw the similarities between those robots and our own selves. We live out of lives accordingly, or challenge it.
"There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking it', or something very similar to it is what Morpheus said to Neo. Being an individual who lives life is what separates people. I'm pretty sure a good amount of people live their lives based on the will of others, including family, religion etc. Experience experiences.
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a good connection
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