[time-nuts] WOT: Identify this movie

GandalfG8 at aol.com GandalfG8 at aol.com
Tue Sep 25 07:37:00 UTC 2012


Not sure about your film reference but a Google search on "humans pedal to  
generate electricity" provides some 200,000 replies with quite a few 
indicating  this is already being done, albeit on a smaller scale, from locations 
such as a  Danish Hotel to Brazillian prisons, and with commercial and DIY 
projects aimed  at individuals also available.
 
It seems to be quite a common theme in fiction too so perhaps your film is  
somewhere in those results but I don't have time, spot the doomed  attempt 
to keep at least vaguely on-topic again:-), to check them  all.
 
Amongst plenty of other works of fiction that include this  concept as part 
of the plot, and the IMDB does indicate this one  to be a work in progress 
as far as a proposed film is concerned, is  a book entitled "Go-Go Girls of 
the Apocalypse".
Whether or not the work itself is worthy of any consideration whatsoever I  
have no idea, but it deserves an award just for the  title:-)
 
Regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR
 
 
In a message dated 25/09/2012 07:05:55 GMT Daylight Time, bill at iaxs.net  
writes:

It's a  dark and quiet night, and list traffic is way down, so please
forgive
me  for this way off topic request. I'm writing a book about  automation
and
have a chapter on the future thereof.

I have a dim  memory of a TV show or movie in black and white that has
the
teeming  billions of earth living in high-rise buildings, each in a self-
contained  room. Occasionally, they "work" by pedaling a machine that
generates  electricity for the tower. Their leader exorts them to work
harder through  a wall-sized TV set.

Does anybody recognize that scenario? At least one  writer has suggested
"welfare dormitories" for the 50% of workers made  redundant by
automation
around 2050. Would like to get it into the book  if I had a reference.

Note the use of a time in the future to stay near  topic.

Bill  Hawkins


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