Have any of you seen the low-budget but very entertaining and well done film
called, 'Cube'? It is about a small group of people who wake up in an
ever-changing mechanical deathtrap who seek to find out who is behind it
all, by first escaping. The various character's have the collective talents
to have at least a chance for survival. One of them has a knack for
mathematics... The film shows how individual's and group's can behave under
mindbending stress in the fight for survival.
SPOILER!!!!! Do not read below if you want to see 'Cube' without my
hints....
I was convinced that the writer would explain malevolent e.t.'s as the cause
but I was in for a surprise...
Charlie Stross' words will mean so much for those who view the film:
(You will note that I consider a bureaucracy staffed by diligent,
patriotic, loyal, experts to be potentially far more hazardous than
a lone maniac. That's because I consider the task of designing and
deploying a nanotech weapon to be one that most maniacs don't have
the time, energy, money, or intelligence to address -- whereas any
study of the history of the cold war, with reference to fun toys
like Project Pluto or the NB-36, or Russian counterparts like the
YaKHR-7[*], will recognize that the lunacy of a bureaucracy knows no
bounds.)
(end)
sincerely,
John Grigg
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