Part 1
I’ve been in the film and television industry all my working life – and it’s been quite a long life!
A couple of years ago, my good friend Alan, with whom I share a love of writing poetry, asked if he could bounce a concept off me. Having had literally dozens of concepts bounced off me over the years and even having been a bouncer in a nightclub myself, how could I resist? He gave me the barest basics of this idea, which seemed to be a sensible one. I say “seemed,” because I have to confess I’m technically challenged when it comes to computing. I guess I’m what you’d call a technophobe.
Alan likewise is a dedicated non-techie. Until he found this idea – which he said was one of incredible value to people like us who use computers extensively but solely within the limitations of what we want to do – he’d hated computers. I was intrigued.
In my case, as a movie writer, director and producer, I use a computer continuously doing the few things I know how to do, like writing a screenplay. I do those things pretty well. Other computing actions that I’m not familiar with drive me up the wall.
I find it sad that with the advent of the Internet and other additions such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., that the quality of communication on planet Earth has taken a downward dive.
Language is increasingly abbreviated and full of childish slang. Young people are rapidly losing the art of speaking directly to one another, preferring to tweet some cryptic message often open to misinterpretation. Cyberbullying, fake news and other misuses of what could be the most brilliant form of communication yet devised in our electronic age are leading us into a dark world where no one believes anything … or anyone. Our already fragile societies are being steadily eroded by the cyber-invader in our midst.
I thought about it. Current computing had lost control of its activities. But here was Alan. And here seemed to be this great new idea. And I figured it was time we regained control of our lives and re-established a sense of decency, ethics and human rights.
So I dove in. Later I realized that Alan had introduced me to what is clearly the answer to the existing but badly flawed world of computing – ExoBrain.
Curious? Join me in my next blog where I start to trace my journey as an ExoFanatic!
An ExoTech Ltd shareholder, Chris is currently authoring two of the four books to be published the day ExoBrain launches and has helped to create ExoBrain’s introductory video to the Confidential Technical Briefing. Chris has spent his working life in the film and television industry, starting with BBC Television in London, then ATV in Birmingham becoming, at the time, the youngest Studio Manager in Britain.
Later, in South Africa, he wrote and directed film and TV commercials, having four South African entries at the Cannes Advertising Festival. After a number of years of writing and directing or producing documentaries (eight international awards) and corporate videos, he concentrated on writing feature film screenplays (five screened) and television series (seven screened). He has a novel, ”Pursuit of Treachery,” with a literary agent and is currently obtaining finance for an action adventure feature film he has written and is co-producing. He is a published poet and has given many readings.