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The end of the "Drone courier" video includes a trailer for Johnny Mnemonic, a cyberpunk film from 1981. Seems interesting.

• bitwize 5y ago
  Probably because it's intended for use as a "data courier" like Johnny Mnemonic himself, hence the "MNEMONIC" on the wings. And the movie is from 1995; the story is from 1981. I find it interesting how we're coming up on actual 2025, and if he wanted to smuggle 320 GiB of information with his body, Johnny needn't risk his life or his childhood memories; he could simply swallow a condom with an SD card in it. I still want a SinoLogic 16 with a GPL stealth module, Sogo-7 data gloves, a Burdine intelligent translator and Thomson eyephones, though.
  • dwringer 5y ago
    I always interpreted the data storage (and, particularly, retrieval) aspect as more of a metaphor for man's search for meaning. Or something.
  • jolmg 5y ago
    > I find it interesting how we're coming up on actual 2025 The story seems set in 2021, so we've already passed it.
• mrtksn 5y ago
  I think it's from 90's because there's young but not too young Keanu Reeves in it. Now I need to watch it because I have a thing for movies filmed in 90's and early 2000's.
  • dwringer 5y ago
    Right on, the original story it's based on, by William Gibson, was published in 1981 but the movie is from the 90's. I think that movie is tragically underrated but it does have a bit of a cult following now at least.
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