They lost me at the 'panopticon'

The panoptican predicated what a city in the present would like based upon a change in the past. It doesn't do anything else but analyze what is changed based upon a theoretical change in the past. And it does this because it is hooked up to a bunch of supercomputers with lots of data.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
-- Friedrieh Wilhelm Nietzsche

Yeah, it sounded good but in practice still way beyond what we can do. Imagine trying to accurately predict the weather on your birthday 100 years from now when the truth is that today we're lucky if we get it right beyond 3 days. With our current techniques it's not even possible even if we could turn the entire universe into one massive computer (and some say that's exactly what the universe is).

Also, the costumes came from the Smithsonian, which does indeed have huge collections of period items from the history of the US. I don't know what they would have done if they had to go outside the US or before the Smithsonian was up and running.

I know they need some device like this for the show to work, but the name is pathetic. They might as well have called it the "flux projector" or a "Wonderflonium forecaster"



I was born in the house my father built

The Panopticon was a ridiculous idea, but even if they had something that gave general ideas of what might happen based on what they knew from the future of the past, they could not possibly know or predict what a given landscape or local neighborhood would look like from that. That was just plain stupid.

I think it should have been called a decepticon OR since that name was actually used and i dont know if they would have gotten permission to call it that, they could call it a Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousopticon


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BbtXj2P4g