Shouts From Down Under

The word TECHNOLOGY; Is it so different from NIGHTMARE?

Writing and words are a marvel. Will they always be a marvel and will they keep up, like a shadow that cannot be removed; will they keep up with the latest technology as we enter new eras of global community reshuffles?

In one hundred years time, will we be writing our novels whilst living in these? Will we still be Dad-joke wielding inhabitants of these tribal oversized bum bags? (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/bumbag)

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/899/You-Can-Now-Live-Off-The-Grid-In-A-Portable-So...

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We have access to unprecedented amounts and quality and versatility of information as never before, to assist us in doing our jobs, handling an array of tasks automatically, and multiplying productivity.

What if a functioning but virtual "projected" piano keyboard was available at relatively low cost, that could be easily installed in such a way that an uncontrollably violent person could still use it, could have score sheets and learning aids virtually displayed as well.
Perhaps over time people like this could enjoy therapeutic benefit, or calming, from the activity.
No people, animals, plants or objects would be harmed in this project.

Is this projected piano keyboard "idea" still around somewhere in the world in 2015, being developed?

If you know of it, please get in touch through the email system.

http://pinktentacle.com/2006/08/virtual-piano-turns-any-surface-into-a-keyboard/...

http://gizmodo.com/020462/ibiz-virtual-keyboard-returns

http://www.play-the-piano-online.com/virtual-laser-keyboard

There IS this:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=iTECH+Bluetooth+Virtual+Keyboard&es_sm=93&biw...

http://www.bluetoothvirtualkeyboard.com/

https://twitter.com/search?q=projected%20piano%20keyboard&src=typd

http://pickle.ninemsn.com.au/2015/06/30/09/28/this-hypnotic-clock-is-made-from-c...

Instantaneous news is being made use of on a global scale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3143159/Do-know-Sam-search-family-amnesi...

This woman has since been identified as American, thanks to the power of technology in the hands of many people. Social Media has its benefits.

I've wondered something that will probably be added to a list of known "Dad-facts" These are oddments of old fashioned thinking coupled with modern technology. It makes sense to the person, at the time- trust me.

Are short SMS messages cheaper?
https://gigaom.com/2007/03/16/10-things-to-know-about-short-codes/

Here's some high tech marvelation for writers everywhere, thanks again to global functional social media and people-clumps. Good stuff.

http://ingridsundberg.com/2014/02/04/the-color-thesaurus/

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Sometimes you think on some strange ideas for writing. You wonder about ways to enhance writing on whatever subject.

So I did. Then I searched for it on YouTube. There wasn't much to go on.

Filming people having nightmares. Ok. Change wording to "having bad dreams".

Ok, try searching Bad dreams. Nightmares. Films of dreams. Just plain dreams.

Seriously, as a Dad-fact finding mission this was getting a bit hungry. Not much on this stuff online at all. You'd think the place would be crammed with everyone's latest screaming, flailing armed, shrieking witch haired nightmare experience. You'd think it'd be uploaded almost before it happened.

Yes, it would be hard to film, because how do you predict when someone will have a nightmare? I'm amazed Good Mythical Morning's Rhett and Link haven't tried to induce bad dreams and made an episode or two out of the subject.

How about it then guys? Sounds like cutting edge stuff to me. Imagine the horror. Imagine the sudden cut off of white noised open mouth dribbling, to be replaced with tonsil hockey screaming, lung bursting bellows as that there dream catches them and deals with them like every nightmare should.

Admit it. You'd like to see people's uncomfortable nightmares too. If it was enjoyable creepy, then we could mine it thoroughly and deeply for material.

So, I did find a few things. Surprisingly one article was quite up to date; maybe people are waking up to the fact that this is a new frontier, and one to be exposed to the public who clamour after the latest in high tech, mega marvel, sci-fi NEW planet stuff.

Yes, there is a sad little film clip of someone's baby. No wonder the person couldn't help but try to comfort.



And this.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/04/03/nightmares-linked-to-depression-insomnia...

Not really rocket science, working that out surely? But what about eating too much steak right on bed time? Old wives tale I suppose, not a newly formed and discovered Dad-fact.

The standard Google-quest.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=are+there+any+films+of+people+having+nightmar...

The images for that search.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=are+there+any+films+of+people+having+nightmar...

I didn't WANT Nightmare On Elm Street videos, but they are there by the thousand.

I didn't WANT Bizkit, the dog that 33 odd million people have viewed (and that's only on the original video- not stolen copies) having a nightmare or dream and then waking.



Googling Nightmares on the news tab brought up this snippet. Maybe its not such a Dad-myth after all. The idea has some legitimacy.

http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2015/07/06/10/05/how-a-google-algorithm-turne...

I most certainly didn't expect to read of nightmares BEING reality. Now I'm seriously creeped out MYSELF. If anyone shines a torch on our bedroom window tonight I'll probably scream myself.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2219826/melissa-rodrigues-mom-troubled-by-her-little-bo...

Last but def not least is perhaps the stuff of nightmares for some. For me? While I feel patriotic for this country, as I said in a community post today / yesterday, it really doesn't bother me WHO is running things, as long as there is freedom, and equality. That goes for jobs and everything else.

Whether that will be reality, humans being humans, remains to be seen.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/26/china-economic-rise-nightma...

What if the dragon awakening, as in China's economy, does things that no one expected. Won't that depend on the attitude of the Chinese people?

Can this attitude be helped along, influenced, placated, calmed, befriended, and shown that while the western world may seem attractive, the last thing Chinese people want is what we currently have; materialism, and all the other isms.

You know, I can't help feeling that writers everywhere have a responsibility. It's up to us to talk to the "masses" through writing, while we are still allowed.

There may be a day in the not too distant galaxy of the future, when relative free speech as we know it will be over. This new era of control over everything we say may also extend, thanks to technology, to what we THINK.

And that will be a waking nightmare.

Sparky