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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pay your Bills using the Telephone Adl vision of com chef services limited 298 Garry r3c1h3 Winnipeg free press december 1986 pages 1928 sunday movies will take your youll feel youre part of the 60framesasecond action by Tim Ono ska in 2019 technology will not Only give us More Leisure but also ways to spend it More creatively and of for those who simply want to pass the time with frivolous diversions there will be plenty of in the future will be movies will become More television and mass Media will Cater to tastes not now computers will offer Ordi nary citizens the Chance to Cre ate and express themselves As never of All the arts our favorite night at the will have changed the most by the Early 21st the movies will be Over 100 years and though the motion picture business has never been known to be particularly inno in the next Century fierce Competition from other forms of entertainment will Force it to alter its by 2019 nearly every Home will have some kind of Home video but the real threat to movies in theatres will come during the 1990s with the wide scale Avail ability of High definition very High definition to uses nearly twice the number of scanning lines 525 for a Standard television to yield a Pic Ture that almost equals 35mm Wal sized screens with the arrival of High definition Wal sized screens and projection televisions will become not Only but extremely attractive to people who can afford at High definition sets will be perhaps As much As for Early As High definition sets with High Quali to digital stereo sound penetrate the difference Between the experience of seeing a movie in a theatre and watching it at Home will All but what will the Hollywood studios do to maintain the theatres As their first line of distribution the most obvious solution is to improve their aging technology by redeveloping the mechanics of show scan is a Large screen film process that offers a More realistic viewing experience than any other technique yet in using 70mm film twice As wide As conventional movie film photographed and projected at 60 frames per second or More than double the Speed of today movies and a six Channel sound show scan Points for the movies of the developed by director Douglas who was also responsible for the special effects in such Sci enc fiction classics As 2001 a space close encounters of the third kind and Blade run show scan offers viewers a More physical and emotional experience by flooding the human Cen trial nervous system with visual u uld a guided tour of v the future to develop its inventors wired test audiences to machines that measured pulse and respiration Electron Wogram activity and an these human Guinea pigs were shown films taken and projected at Vari Frame rates to measure their physiological responses to the when the number of frames per second topped 60 the filmmaker saw the meters on the measuring equipment audiences were physically excited by this new visual suddenly there was an entirely new level on which to communicate with a gathered flock of an visceral settling on this Trumbull discovered that audiences became More intensely involved with show so much so that too Many action scenes could rapidly tire in much the same Way that actually ducked when an actor pointed a pistol at them at the conclusion of the great train the show scan Audi ence partially because of the techniques Novelty tends to confuse the illusion of the film with Reali feature films so show scan has been demonstrated with Only Short films for expositions and worlds but Trumbull plans to make theatrical feature length films by the end of the when moviegoers have the Opportunity to see Trumbull is certain they will no longer be satisfied with convention Al film using show scan and the technologies that will soon compete with directors can produce films that will leave audiences the thundering herds of the Western will be the kicks and punches of the action picture More violent and the of All the More traditional Small films More intimate in will not necessarily tit show scan is quite Likely to prompt a new wave of the Flat out blockbusters that Hollywood has always been so Good at these films will make audiences want vicarious expert perhaps at the Cost of dra Matic a simulated trip through across the storm tossed oceans or scaling the Heights of Everest will give ticket buyers More for their Money than Ever one aspect of the movies that will not change in the next Century is subject there is no reason to believe that traditional film genres will not be As popular 40 theres no robot but appliances Are smart by Douglas Colligan by 2019 the sized Home will become More and More but a firs time visit to one of these Homes might be a no robot Butler will Greet you at the door and no Little androids will Scurry in the household of 2019 the first phase of Home robot nation will not be a single but a Small family of Intelli gent the House itself could be a kind of an automated build ing with a Central the various systems of the House Security close circuit Light control would All be subject to the direction of a Central a kind of Auto mated buyers will As sume their new Home comes equipped with a Central computer As Standard equipment the Way houses now come with indoor plumbing and fully wired for elec work teams futurists at the Massachusetts think firm of Arthur suggest that the robot sized Home will have Auto mated centres where appliances Are linked together into intelligent work getting a meal they could be simplified with a dual unit that is part part microwave in the morn ing you would preselect a Frozen meal stored in your at the appropriate time that meal Back age would slide out a door into the microwave by the time you walk in the door at night a hot meal would be if you Are going to be late you simply Call Home and Tell your Home computer to delay the even simple meals could be Auto you might be Able to order a Sandwich in the same in a grocery store in has a prototype of a robot the Ham sheer is a refrigerated meat Container with a robot Slicer and scale a human customer simply walks up to taps a few buttons on the control telling the machine the kind of the thickness of slices and the weight he and the machine weighs and wraps the meat in a matter of with a Little adaptation the same design could produce a masterpiece Dagwood Sandwich As parked out of sight in a closet would be your robot vacuum clean according to a reprogrammed schedule it would Roll out of the cruise Over a remapped course on the floor and do the weeks the japanese electronics firm hit acre already has an experimental Mode of a robot vacuum cleaner looks like a drive less car of the it sits quietly in the foraging out to perform its fun still experimental and Cost ing 10 times what current vacuum cleaners sell the robot vacuum will no doubt be part of some of the More Gadget conscious Homes in a 2019 simple to train training the machine is relatively simple and it most Likely mirrors called vocational turning the pages of a opening a drawer or third is recreational activities playing a game of for these helpers Are precursors of the electronic a robotic module with Mixan match a Basic Industrial robot today can be outfitted with a wide selection of distinct attach for there Are As Many As 14 kinds of hands and several different styles of fingers customized to pick up different shaped the to if youre going to be computer will hold dinner How we will House break our own helpmate of the human reads a word list to the from this exercise the robot learns to recognize its masters or mistress then the human tries the voice Fin tuning her ability to control the robot the Stanford like All com has three types of duty to one is performing the chores of daily living getting meals and brushing for sex the second is Small jobs or me Bot would seek its Utility closet and pop on a new hand or a new or even a new set of sensors with the same ease with which we change our and there will be More and More things for these smart machines to do As they grow More Al though few Homes have enough work to keep a robot working at the fever pitch of his Industrial counter we will no doubt find new tasks for this automated slave to artificial intelligence Ai Pioneer John Mccarthy of Stanford University offered a Little insight into what life with an Intelli gent machine would be like if you had this robot to work 24 hours a Day you would think of More and More things for it to this would bring about an elaboration in Stan Dards of style and ser for what you would regard As an acceptably set dinner table would correspond to the Stan Dards of the fanciest restaurant or to the 19thcentury standards of somebody who was very people ask what will happen when we have robots and there is a very Good name what did the Rich do when they had lots of servants As we get used to the luxury of having slaves at our Beck and we May want them around for companionship As for those who Rob dogs and Rob cats will be a luxury we will All be Able to compute game designer and entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell has designed a line of microchip powered fuzzy animals Petters that gurgle in response to a human think of it As re placing biological you get the Good things without the its companionship without the Kitty lit he has to be truly robots will have to be Able to find their Way around and manipulate the world around Industrial machines work in areas that have been Cus Tom designed for them work spaces cleared of All extraneous debris and with materials set up within the precise reach of mechanical arms and there is no nothing the Home of 2019 will probably have to be made robot robots Nightmare the average House is a robots Nightmare of obstacles and unexpected challenges stairs to tables and other furniture randomly scattered around variable from shag rugs to wooden floors pets and Small children wandering by at random and hundreds of objects of varied colors and a Home that is comfortable to a robot Domestic will have to Correct at least some of these and such rooms As the Kitchen and bathroom May have to be customized for robot cleaning and main tile Walls and floors with a Drain in the Centre will make it easy for a machine to scrub main rooms in the House would have to be uncluttered or at least cleaned up before the robot a the rooms would be spare but with As much Builtin furniture As years from now As they were in the 1930 and love science teenage War sweeping adventures and Nigger westerns will be among the most successful movies of different approach new technologies will Moke possible a different approach to the traditional com Pute graphic techniques will enable producers to recreate electronically the voices and physical appearances of great movie stars of the a new movie featuring a cast of Hollywood Halloff amers Jimmy Greta John Marilyn Monroe int just it is probable once computer synthesis techniques Are computer graphics hold myriad implications for the movies of the 21st it will be More practical and Cost effective to design sets and synthesize almost any location on or off using special effects that now require models and miniatures can be re placed by digital once the most visually exciting area of today except for an occasional Disney almost cheaper animation computer graphics will Cut the Cost of animation in the next Cen and cartoons featuring solid looking three dimensional charac ters will breathe new life into this Art the computer will also be used to create Hollywood ultimate one who will never miss a Mark on the become temperamental or balk at a and will be Able to change physical appear age and voice from film to film a Walt Disney amazed visitors to the 1964 new York worlds fair with his first which he dubbed audion Matronic Fig the very first of these was the famous figure of Abraham Lin Coln that continues to amaze Visi tors at the Disney theme two decades later the Craft of robot making at wed and Mapo the two companies responsible for designing and building the Disney theme Parks has advanced to Fig ures that appear to walk up a flight of stairs and More subtly mimic reality than Walts first lurching and halting an Matronic honest have been fascinated with robot from the metallic female of Fritz langs to the automaton Genie of forbidden to r2d2 and the Star wars computerized comedy but will a robot Ever be Able to transcend the Novelty of its techno logical heritage will it Ever pose a Challenge to the talents of human thespians will it be forced to join the screen actors Guild perhaps the movie going audiences of 2019 will find ;