Re: Best reader description of the week

**L* L* <l*@gmail.com>**

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Betty Mackey <bettymackey@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I sometimes imagine images from a novel or movie script I might write
>> "someday." Lawrence, since you posted that description of obliterating a
>> yellow jacket nest with the swarm attacking your truck it's been part of
>> that fantasy. I suppose they would have to use digital yellow jackets for
>> the movie.
>>
> That could be a great sci fi/fantasy movie. Some evil mad scientist intent
on world domination genetically engineers a far more dangerous yellowjacket
and implants a starter colony in the Dismal Swamp to multiply, adapt and
migrate elsewhere. Weekend fishermen arouse a swarm when fixing a meal over
the campfire and take off for their trucks in hot pursuit by tens of
thousands of jackets. They make it to safety but the migration has started.
In coming months jacket sightings occur in locations more and more distant
from the Swamp.
Soon after this there are sightings in the Louisiana Bayou with more
following along the Mississippi heading North.
Combine elements of HP Lovecraft, Voodoo and Alan Dean Foster (Alien) and
you have a real thriller. Add James Bond for a real twist.

> By then some enterprising crowdfunded startup will have developed a
> yellowjacket supermicro drone just for the movie industry,
> so perfectly realistic that moviegoers would never know the difference.
> You never know these days with technology advancing almost at an
> exponential rate. Since agricultural chemicals are decimating wild
> creatures at such an alarming rate there may be no more 'jackets and bees
> in coming decades. Then some enterprising businessman can rent "colonies"
> of flying insect drones to homeowners who want to feel as close to Nature
> as they used be, just like the real thing. They would of course each be
> wireless connected to their owner's Internet of Things site with realtime
> database access telling them when to fly to next customer or back home for
> maintenance.
>

This could become a Blade Runner scenario in some future century. Flexus
II, a jacket droid, developed and manufactured by the FlyWell Corporation
is deployed worldwide to perform a variety of tasks for an ever growing
customer base. When they outlived their usefulness or
began to organize for independence and longevity a new age Deckard, now a
computer whiz, has to track them down for termination. It becomes a battle
of ingenuity between the hacker trying to infect Jacket OS with malware
over the wireless that would freeze them and the Flexus II's, aware of the
threat to their existence, defending against the intrusions. A strange
scenario develops over the centuries wherein self replicating robots,
having gained the ability to design themselves, gather and process raw
materials with which to create themselves,  seek autonomy, independence and
a sustained existence.

-- 
Lawrence F. London
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared/
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