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Next
$19.99
Overall Next is a good movie. I was entertained the whole time which is more than I can say for a lot of movies now days. Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel and Julianne Moore are the three main characters and the story is about a guy with physic powers who uses them to save his girl and an entire city from being blown up by a nuclear bomb. The story is pretty good but it gets a little far fetched toward the end of the movie.

Next & Face Off [Blu-ray]
$36.99
next was nice
sound was not bad
viewing wise was not bad quite clear

face off sound and image was so so
more of a dvd standard than a bluray

Next [Blu-ray]
$29.99
Yet another bad movie from Nicholas Cage. And Julianne Moore sucked too. Only redeeming part of the movie was Jessica Biel, who is a babe and did a pretty good job playing the requisite damsel-in-distress.

Next: The Future Just Happened
$13.95
This book is the first book that made me see the big picture on the social implications of the internet.
It is the most interesting book I have read in a while frankly, so why 3 stars? Because while I feel he described cases of the "revolution" going on, I think he missed the big picture in some big ways.

(1) Both slightly amusing and yet also annoying is his suggestion that Generation X (My generation) are the way we are because our corporate masters wanted to create a unique commercial market that is "us".
To that I can only say if that it true it was a REALLY bad investment because they have basically created their grave diggers.
Yeah they created me for sure- they added excessive stress for my parents which probably contributed to their divorce. They have filled my life with commercial junk made off the backs of child labor. They have turned every job I have held into feudal serfdom.
So yeah they have created me, but the result is not a "market" for them to sell to but a force for their own demise, which is why my generation is actively struggling all established power. I might succeed or fail in my strivings but clearly not working in their interests which is what the author implies.

(2) He seems way too wrapped up in accepting the wisdom of excessive consumerisms. For example he rails that people who fight for privacy rights will only hurt themselves.
To that I can only say that yes the corporate machine is powerful and might win, but the whole point of his examples is that the internet is the weapon that empowers the counter culture, which could include those who want privacy.

(3) He warns towards the end that our technology could lead us to great suffering and mass control by elites, but does not seem to understand how his own grasping to the "consumerism is god" philosophy is the path that leads that destruction.
The technology can be used for good and evil, and his examples show the real struggle going on BETWEEN the good and the evil to control it.
He seems to imply all those on the side of good will just sell out and be purchased eventually by the elites.
But while we have sellouts, even the sellouts are not completely sold out. We are different and I have faith we will win in the end.