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Charlie human apocalypse now now vimeo11/12/2022 ![]() Permission helps, too, and it’s easy to see why companies were eager to have their wares featured in the likes of Toy Story and The Lego Movie. Had Disney fought the film, Escape From Tomorrow would have stopped being an interesting, low-key experiment, and would have become THE FILM DISNEY DIDN’T WANT YOU TO SEE, which is way sexier and more conducive to juicy press than being the weird, non-commercial independent film Disney is surprisingly chill about you being able to see. But if Disney had waged the expected legal war against Escape From Tomorrow, then suddenly it would have become a big story playing into the worst stereotypes about Disney as thin-skinned, litigation-crazed monsters. Despite being decidedly off-brand with Disney’s image, allowing the tiny film to live and die on its own modest merits turned out to be a non-story. This invites the question: Why was “Power/Rangers ” pulled from the Internet when seemingly the sum of human endeavor, not including the music of Prince, can be found, officially or otherwise, on YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, and other services? For that matter, why were the people behind the official Power Rangers so apoplectic over an online take on their characters when countless brands, comic-book companies, and corporations have practically lined up to have their copyrighted characters prominently featured in The Lego Movie, Toy Story, Foodfight!, Wreck-It Ralph, and Robot Chicken? Even Disney, which has long been considered among the most litigious corporations in the world, decided not to fight Escape From Tomorrow, the movie secretly filmed at one its theme parks and filled with luridly non-Disney subject matter. (To put that into perspective: that’s way more than Birdman’s jaunt around Times Square earned.) If you’re curious about the film, however, you are out of luck, as the people behind the Power Rangers franchise, most notably creator Haim Saban, had the film pulled from Vimeo and YouTube after it had already racked up more than 10 million hits in just a few days. Learning lessons from technology transformations of the past, it’s incumbent on all of us to be more inclusive of different communities and more intentional about anticipating the downsides - as well as the upsides - of technology that will shape society and our lives over the coming decades.A few days ago we ran a post about “Power/Rangers, ” director Joseph Kahn and producer Adi Shankar’s gritty, bootleg short film depicting the grown-up Power Rangers as broken, dysfunctional survivors of an ugly dystopia. But before you can enhance reality, you need to understand reality, and Hanke will outline Niantic’s vision of empowering developers and creators around the world with the Niantic Lightship platform. If the metaverse contemplates leading our lives inside of a computer network, the Real-World Metaverse will use technology to improve our experience of the real world, enriching it with fun and magic, and helping people lead richer, more fulfilling lives. John Hanke, the Founder and CEO of Niantic, is here to tell you it doesn’t need to go that way. Science fiction writers, filmmakers and futurists have warned for years about the potential for a dystopian future where technology has created a dark, uninviting, hostile world. ![]()
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