| Juan Kerr | 21 Nov 2009 7:33 p.m. PST |
"Pontypool"….still not sure what to make of it…was original…virus spread by language. |
| Coelacanth1938 | 21 Nov 2009 10:11 p.m. PST |
Think of a human brain as a computer. The Pontypool virus is a software virus spread by speaking specific words in a specific language which isn't that quite far fetched. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 21 Nov 2009 10:25 p.m. PST |
So that's where Eureka got that idea. |
| Pijlie | 22 Nov 2009 12:21 a.m. PST |
Like The Funniest Joke Ever Made? |
combatpainter  | 22 Nov 2009 8:03 a.m. PST |
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| combatpainter | 22 Nov 2009 8:08 a.m. PST |
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| haywire | 22 Nov 2009 4:06 p.m. PST |
Didnt the Furbies have a virus spread by speaking to eahc other? |
| CmdrKiley | 22 Nov 2009 4:45 p.m. PST |
Some other movie on Sci Fi (Terminal something or other) had a virus that was spread by images captured in your memory. The virus was written such a way that it would flicker in a computer screen. Your brain would capture what your eyes are seeing and store that as in your memory. But in the process of writing that code in a memory cell it was actually writing the DNA sequence in your brain to make a virus to infect your body. |
| kreoseus2 | 23 Nov 2009 7:54 a.m. PST |
"virus spread by language" I have experience of this, my wife nags me for half an hour, IQ drops ,rage increases…. |
| CeruLucifus | 23 Nov 2009 12:58 p.m. PST |
I'm at work so I haven't watched the Pontypool trailer yet, but if you're talking about the human brain as a programmable computer, commands transmitted as words, viruses transmitted as bitmaps, etc., I believe the first place this idea was developed was in Neal Stephenson's classic tongue- in- cheek cyberpunk novel, Snowcrash. A great read if you're not familiar with it. link |
| Hexxenhammer | 23 Nov 2009 2:42 p.m. PST |
Yeah, Snowcrash is the definitive work on the "language as virus" story. In the story Snowcrash is a virus that can infect a hacker through looking at "snow" on a video screen, an old-fashioned drug, or religious ecstacy (hence the phenomena of glossolalia). If you're infected with it, you can become zombie-like, mind-controlled but not undead. At the end there are hordes of infected people with antennea implants being directed through radio by the big bads. |
