Media Notes Just two I want to note this morning - though given all of the television I've been watching over the past year (the DVR really has changed things) there are quite a few bits I'll eventually want to get around to... just not this morning. First, I see that the lead for the THOR film slated to come from Marvel in 2010 appears nearly cast. Reportedly it appears to be going to Chris Hemsworth , the actor who played James T. Kirk's father in the generally enjoyable STAR TREK franchise restart. ( There's another topic.) Also, it appears FOX and Joss Whedon reached a price point agreement and DOLLHOUSE has been renewed for a 13-episode second season . I'm guessing FOX had Whedon over a barrel, especially with the ratings drop-off the series had at season's end, and were able to get him to cut the price on the show. Potentially, the series may have a stronger second season if they can gain some momentum from people who give the first season DVD set
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The Future We Were Expecting? While information started flooding out soon afterward, a special nod to Abbygal for sending a link to this excellent overview of Wolfram Alpha this past Thursday. If you haven't already read about it or seen some other overview, this is an excellent introduction. As it was rolling through it dawned on me that this is what we expected computers to do for us when we were all generally ignorant of the state of the art. We've spent so many years adapting our thought processes to match the simple, mini-step logic and literalism our relatively primitive computer programs required... that I almost didn't recognize some of the first signs of the computer I expected to have when pop culture showed us some popular visions of the future when I was a child growing up in the Space Race 1960s. Admittedly, it's just another step in the process, but I really like the feel of this and the general sense of how it's developing.