{"id":18637,"date":"2017-04-13T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18637"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:51:49","slug":"introducing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18637","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow evening, Friday April 14, at 9:30pm, I will be introducing a screening of <I>The Matrix<\/I> at the <a href=http:\/\/rubinmuseum.org>Rubin Museum of Art<\/a>. I am super excited, and extremely honored, that they asked me to give the introduction for this screening.<\/p>\n<p>The Rubin&#8217;s weekly Friday evening &#8220;Cocktails and Film&#8221; series (the audience sips cocktails while watching a film) features films that have some thematic connection to Buddhist philosophy. In the case of this particular film, I think the connection is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Tim McHenry, who runs the film series (and all of the awesome public events at The Rubin) asked me to introduce this film because I worked on <i>Tron<\/I> (the first one), In a way, <I>Tron<\/I> is itself a kind of introduction to <I>The Matrix<\/I>, marking the first time many people were exposed to the concept of someone walking around in a computer mediated future reality.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, just the other day we gave a demo, here in our lab, of our own VR enabled simulation of walking around in a computer mediated future reality.  The person we gave the demo to was Alan Kay, the visionary who came up with many of the ideas for <i>Tron<\/I> (and many other ideas, like notebook and tablet computers).  He liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Today we gave the same demo to Tim McHenry.  He liked it too.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in NY tomorrow evening, come join us at the Rubin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow evening, Friday April 14, at 9:30pm, I will be introducing a screening of The Matrix at the Rubin Museum of Art. I am super excited, and extremely honored, that they asked me to give the introduction for this screening. The Rubin&#8217;s weekly Friday evening &#8220;Cocktails and Film&#8221; series (the audience sips cocktails while watching &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introducing the future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18637"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18646,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18637\/revisions\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}