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TrackingWriters. Wrote the TeenagersGuideToTheRealWorld. Has a [http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/ blog].
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<[[Brennen]]> [http://marshallbrain.com/star-wars.htm On ''Star Wars'']:
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:What happened next is very hard to describe. Instead of "reliving the magic", I was amazed (horrified?) to discover that Star Wars has become as comical as a Flash Gordon movie. Looking at it today, just 28 years after its release, it is impossible to watch the movie without laughing at all of its anachronisms. From a SadTech perspective and a Robotic Nation perspective, Star Wars has become impossibly lame.
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An amazingly extended exercise in completely missing the point, which sort of characterizes Brain's writing style in general. Unless he's putting us all on, which is I guess a more entertaining possibility.
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<[[Brennen]]> Brain has also written a book called [http://marshallbrain.com/discard1.htm The Day You Discard Your Body]:
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:But that is a primitive way of thinking. In the near future you will discard your body -- you will literally throw it in the trash -- because you will neither want it nor need it. You will discard your biological body gladly, like you would discard an old pair of shoes today. You will be quite grateful to be rid of it.
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:The reason why you will discard your body so willingly is simple. In the process of losing your body, you will achieve a level of freedom and longevity that is unimaginable to us today.
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:In this book, you will come to understand why you will be so happy to discard your body. We will look at the many problems that your body creates for you today, along with the many limitations that it imposes on you. We will then discuss the technology that will make your body obsolete, and the powerful social forces that will encourage you to abandon it.
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