Culture

Yup, another technology blog.  And it's not that I'm complaining about technology.  It's just that creating a comprehensive arena for your characters to live in can be a real challenge.

Unless you're in steampunk land, the PAST is pretty much set.  But Hollywood calls that a "period piece" and doesn't want to fund those projects.  Too expensive, and they think kids don't look backward.

The future...  Creating that can be expensive too.  And might include stuff like this:

Why am I blogging this?  This isn't about screenwriting!

But it is. We imagine, and it becomes reality...  Some day.  Sometimes things exist only in theory or on the silver screen, like socialist utopias.  Other things are just a matter of time.  That, and the laws of physics, political bias or social acceptance. 

Star Trek came out with flip phones and now they're so 2005.  We have smarter phones now!

Inspiration for all.

Lessons Learned:

With all the other 10-year anniversaries going on, recollections from the big players, so let me relate my tale:

I was working tech support for C-level officers of Siemens Business Services in the Citicorp building, 53rd and Lexington, 56th floor.  I was preoccupied with casting for a table read of WIttenberg, my prequel of Shakespeare's Hamlet.  I was composing flyers and collecting headshots between printer problems and password resets.