"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. "
That simply isn't true: that "system of systems" has nothing to do w/ nature, but the same lame & limp-wristed metaphors are still being peddled today, from, as they say on TV, "both sides of the aisle" & from some places outside the aisle.
@CocteauDalighari He's referring to money being able to dictate who lives and who does not, like nature does. We see it today, people speculate on the price of food. Food price goes up, poor Africans can't afford food, poor Africans die. Meddling with the primal forces of nature.
3:38 - Lol! Lies!!
3:47 - Anyone else see the irony in that? What he describes is idealistic communism yet communism does not allow for businesses.
krunkaintdead69 1 month ago
@krunkaintdead69 I think it is an resourced based economy. ;)
Libertadv1 1 month ago
@krunkaintdead69 Becouse cummunism naver in any country was real.
Laska1944 4 weeks ago
Ned Beatty. Otis. Trenchant and Prescient. More relevant today than it was in 1976.
navenow 3 months ago
vaya soy la visita numero 1976!!!
visit 1976!!!
cmostacilla 4 months ago
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. "
Ed062178 5 months ago 2
Never mind if its true or not; this is one of the most memorable monologues in all of cinema.
chintermeister 6 months ago
@chintermeister It is true! That is what makes it so good!
olddouchebag 6 months ago 2
You have meddled w/ the primal forces of nature.
That simply isn't true: that "system of systems" has nothing to do w/ nature, but the same lame & limp-wristed metaphors are still being peddled today, from, as they say on TV, "both sides of the aisle" & from some places outside the aisle.
CocteauDalighari 8 months ago
@CocteauDalighari He's referring to money being able to dictate who lives and who does not, like nature does. We see it today, people speculate on the price of food. Food price goes up, poor Africans can't afford food, poor Africans die. Meddling with the primal forces of nature.
Conibeer 3 weeks ago