harry potter movie Sunday?

I think I must have missed some things. Who is up for Harry Potter (we talked about seeing it Sunday, right?)? What times are convenient? Let me know.

Cures for Diseases Continued...

Hello all! Sorry I haven't been participating lately, our internet has been down & you know how long it takes Comcast to make house calls! Anyway, I was reading Jose's post about the "cure" for HIV. I was just going to say that I've been doing a lot of research lately on pharmaceuticals/medical research for a group project. From reading some of the material, scientists truly believe that many cures to deadly diseases will be found by 2010. Actually, they are pretty confident about cancer, because they've had some advancement in their research. Since I've started this class and begun reading books about fictional scientific advancements (The Speed of Dark, for example), I've started to think about the fact that it may not be long before all of the books we're reading ring true to reality. The number one pharmaceutical company alone spends $7.7 Billion dollars a year on medical research (that's a 2004 figure). That means that some real advancement could soon take place in these disease areas. I've been looking for the article I read about these potential cures, but I haven't yet found it. I will post it when I do. Just wanted to comment on that subject.

Ashley

Googlezon!

Katie, thanks for your perseverance in posting that link. Much food for thought there, and not just for journalism majors.

I shared the link with the College Media Advisers listserv. This is an excerpt from one of the responses, from an adviser in North Carolina:

"I don't really know whether to laugh or cry. Is this an image of a bright future? Or, is it an image of a dark future in which Big Brother isn't the government, but a corporate entity instead. Wow! ... Well, science fiction hasn't gotten too much correct despite my many years reading Huxley, Bradbury, Asimov and many of the others. This visual seems more like science fiction, but perhaps more in the Mary Shelley model. Googlezon seems more the monstrous creation than the enlightened hope for future citizens."

Googlezon does suggest Ginsberg’s Moloch, doesn’t it? "Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!"