[time-nuts] WOT: Identify this movie
GandalfG8 at aol.com
GandalfG8 at aol.com
Tue Sep 25 07:37:00 UTC 2012
Not sure about your film reference but a Google search on "humans pedal to
generate electricity" provides some 200,000 replies with quite a few
indicating this is already being done, albeit on a smaller scale, from locations
such as a Danish Hotel to Brazillian prisons, and with commercial and DIY
projects aimed at individuals also available.
It seems to be quite a common theme in fiction too so perhaps your film is
somewhere in those results but I don't have time, spot the doomed attempt
to keep at least vaguely on-topic again:-), to check them all.
Amongst plenty of other works of fiction that include this concept as part
of the plot, and the IMDB does indicate this one to be a work in progress
as far as a proposed film is concerned, is a book entitled "Go-Go Girls of
the Apocalypse".
Whether or not the work itself is worthy of any consideration whatsoever I
have no idea, but it deserves an award just for the title:-)
Regards
Nigel
GM8PZR
In a message dated 25/09/2012 07:05:55 GMT Daylight Time, bill at iaxs.net
writes:
It's a dark and quiet night, and list traffic is way down, so please
forgive
me for this way off topic request. I'm writing a book about automation
and
have a chapter on the future thereof.
I have a dim memory of a TV show or movie in black and white that has
the
teeming billions of earth living in high-rise buildings, each in a self-
contained room. Occasionally, they "work" by pedaling a machine that
generates electricity for the tower. Their leader exorts them to work
harder through a wall-sized TV set.
Does anybody recognize that scenario? At least one writer has suggested
"welfare dormitories" for the 50% of workers made redundant by
automation
around 2050. Would like to get it into the book if I had a reference.
Note the use of a time in the future to stay near topic.
Bill Hawkins
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