Boardwalk Empire

The roaring series ruined much of the climax by killing off Jimmy Darmody. In process, it reduced viewer ship ratings as well. The following up seasons have had a bittersweet after taste and never could reach the pinnacle. Even though, the series chronicles the life of the Atlantic City politician and gangster Nucky Thompson, it does not focus much of a symbolic strong hold on the character. And, as such, the plot lines of the many underlining characters provide for much distraction. Once the protege was passed on after season two it had a very reminiscent effect which seemed to have never managed to recuperate. A lot of varied dark societal story depictions are made which have no real basis or direction. The partying of the Roaring Twenties can not last forever. Each episode is turning into mundane, similar, and almost repetitious story lines. Certainly, it is time Boardwalk Empire came to an end. 

Real Steel

As robots become more intelligent and useful, they will eventually subsume more integrated prowess for artificial intelligence to be applied in multitude applications and to help in our daily lives. In process, the complexity of emotional sensation will provide for additional capacities for robots to understand and exist within their surroundings. Real Steal was a movie that provides inspiration for robots to exist in full form for combat and yet replace human wrestlers and boxers alike. It provides for a more digital existence of similar kind as illustrated in many William Gibson novels. In essence, driving more processing and individually distinguished abilities in robots provides not only more versatility but also varied uses for their existence. The hardest bit of artificial intelligence is the process of dissipating a sense of free will within a robot similar to A.I and I-Robot. However, taking inspiration from the human mind and neural brain capacity, there may be emotional processes for such metaphorical stimulus development. In current times, robots are merely specialized agents trained to be good at one thing and one thing only. They may not even distill the full vagaries of a robot, but provide merely an aspect of it such as an intelligent arm, an intelligent cooker, and so on. This seems like to provide a full robot one requires a full extent of neural activity as well as an array of sensors for detecting the environment for reinforcement feedback. As robots arise and advance into the future, we will inevitably see them becoming more ubiquitous within our daily lives and transforming our world into a new era of human existence where man lives along side robots. Thus, the intractable complexities of systems takes on a different meaning. There is always progress ahead for artificial intelligence where technology in both software and hardware plays catch up as people are able to learn and comprehend the many virtues of technological breakthroughs in making artificial intelligence a reality, often taking on many forms of inspiration.

Immersive Games

Immersive gaming is slowly but steadily taking shape as deep learning and aspects of artificial intelligence are becoming more of a reality. Virtual realism is often a mixture of connecting a player to the game at both a realistic level as well as at an emotional level, almost making them feel part of what is going on. However, the dimensionality of such games is still very restrictive. We want to be able to play games almost like they confuse our perspectives of what is real and what is virtual. Almost, like adapting aspects of Hunger Games or even the training of a dragon. Even to make us feel like we are literally part of a simulated medieval warfare like in Lord of the Rings. Adding in social networking means more simulated and shared gaming experience and even more immersion. In order, for games to be realistic they have to portray scene graphs that look almost real as well. There are 3-D glasses available to view movies as well as virtual reality but this needs to be taken even further for games. In a way, the technology drivers for connected gaming has a shared motivation to the viewership of TV, perhaps in a similar entertainment sort of experience. As consoles become more and more integrated such as AppleTV and XBox we are yet to see more and more advancements in social gaming and immersive gaming experiences that infiltrate and play with all our senses. Mutiplayer games come in all types. Perhaps, even the movie like Gamer could be one aspect of inspiration. Or, an aspect from SecondLife could be yet another. And, even quantum computing for teleportation could be another. As advancement in robotics becomes more practical, it would mean vastly new approaches to how gaming experiences are achieved. Even aspects of distributed server farms and P2P networks could enable more of a globally shared experience. However, there are always long-term ramifications to such levels of game play on humans both psychologically and physically. Virtual simulations are used extensively in combat training already. There is, as it seems, still a long road ahead for games to truly transform into holographic and immersive experiences into our daily lives as if to move us into a completely new dimensional matrix at any moment in time.  

Coca Cola Commercial

The conservative posts in social media networks on the Coca Cola super bowl advert clearly displays the very essence of intolerance and bigotry that is widespread in America. America has always been the land of immigrants and a melting pot of different racial backgrounds. It is quite absurd for an American to hate on a particular race as almost every one has ancestry dating back from some where other than America. The only natives are the American Indians who never had much of a say before their lands were invaded by immigrants. And, then came the years of slavery which perpetuated even more hatred. It seems as things change the more they do stay the same. Although, now intolerance has taken many different forms and routes globally. Also, there is a deep seated view that at times education is failing to teach the basic principles of societal values and morals. Or, it could also be taken that such matters are for parents who may not be sufficiently teaching kids the basic human values but are perhaps more focused on materialistic aspects of life. And, as people focus more and more towards materialistic affairs the whole societal value system over time changes or gets overlooked as things become more acceptable. Although, not by the virtues of it being right but perhaps not as important. One should ask why assimilation is expected in West, while the East does not force this matter on their foreigners. A one-sided approach to such an outlook is perhaps silenced by hypocrisy. 

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Budweiser Commercial

A family oriented commercial that makes beer accessible to all. Almost taming the whole experience into a typical American family. Adopt a puppy or adopt a Budweiser. A warm take on all things Budweiser. For a change, it was not the typical skimpy girl type of commercial or ones for cheap laughs. Although, they should really add a warning at bottom, like they do for smoking, as excessive alcohol can also kill and effect many lives for the worse.  Often caring about what one eats doesn't quite translate into caring about what one drinks. Your mileage may vary, however. 

AngelList

An interesting take on bringing together investors and start ups is AngelList. This platform provides a way to avoid the middleman saving on much legal fees and also provides access for recruitment. There is even anticipation for crowdsourcing as well as a partnership with CrunchBase which provides access to company database. The service has been around since 2010, but the website could use a bit of an overhaul especially as it feels unresponsive and  quite a drag to navigate around. One trend that can be seen from many of the start ups is that a lot of the applications look to solving a real problem which can have a quantifiable value both to an investor and to a consumer especially in analytics or an aspect of ecommerce. There are also many which provide for some media or finance outlet for a specific niche spectrum of the market. The unique spelling of domain names also displays how dense the Internet has become as so many of the standard domain names have been taken back during the dot-com era.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

An arduously mundane piece of work with lackluster performance and hardly a sign of comedy. The man just goes in and out, in and out through imaginative hallucinations. And, the chase for the lost photo just drags on needlessly through the whole movie until the very end. It is one of those movies where it starts out relatively enough to spike curiosity then it just goes on and on into a monotonous story, almost as interesting as watching paint dry. One of those movies that makes eating popcorn more pleasurable or the undecided frustration of having wasted so much time. Or, perhaps, I just never found Ben Stiller all that funny.

The Americans

An interesting take on international spying intertwined with emotional twirls of love and betrayal. The juxtaposition of the story line in this series is all the more compelling as it explores the many complexities of two people who individually and also together are at the crossroads of nationalist responsibility and their feelings for each other. As the second season continues, it will be exciting to see how the two characters progress in their roles as well as how destiny plays the cards for them. There is immense amount of continuation and the enfolding drama to work with against the many perils that awaits them. The exploration into the lives of a spy couple who ultimately must transcend between their conflicting personal and professional lives to honor both their country and marriage.