Oct. 13th, 2008

ded_maxim: (hello cthulhu!)
Все-таки, удивительно, насколько пророческим оказался вот этот фильм. Из Википедии:

In a subway cart stands a man whose face is dirty with soot. In his right hand he carries a plastic bag with documents, or rather, the charred leftovers of them. In a corridor a man is clinging desperately to the legs of the boss who just fired him. He is screaming: "I've worked here for thirty years!" In a coffee shop someone is waiting for her father, who just burned his furniture company for insurance money. Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into the crystal ball of a scryer. Everything and everyone are going somewhere but the goal and its meaning was forgotten on the way.

Вчера посмотрел в третий раз. Восприятие совсем не такое, как было восемь лет назад.
ded_maxim: (покинутый мозг)
Нобеля по экономике Кругману вручили, надо полагать, вот за этот фундаментальный труд:
Paul Krugman, "The theory of interstellar trade", 1978
http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

Abstract: This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest rates on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer traveling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.
Молодцы, смотрят далеко в будущее! Теперь буду пересматривать все серии "Футурамы", чтобы пронаблюдать теоремы Кругмана в действии.

Update: ZOMG! Нас уже пять лет назад предупреждали:
I walked away, with my skin crawling, worried that I'd gotten too close to something infectious. I flashed on the scene from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead when Peter Keating hears a speech by Ellsworth Toohey -- the diminutive newspaper columnist and professor to whom I've likened Krugman before -- and is gripped by fear and horror at Toohey's ability to feed off the energy of a partisan crowd. And I flashed on the movie Alien, in which contact with an extraterrestrial monster infects people trapped with it on a spaceship, and monsters just like it start to grow inside them.

ПНШИФ!

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