Cordelia » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:32 am wrote:"It looked like a scene from "Night of the Living Dead": Dozens of teenagers lumbering around a suburban park at twilight, oblivious to their surroundings and murmuring in an incomprehensible language."
[Herzog:] Does it tell you you’re here at San Vicente, close to Sunset Boulevard?
[The Verge:] Yeah, it’s basically like a Google map.
But what does pokémon do at this corner here?
You might be able to catch some. It’s all completely virtual. It’s very simple, but it’s also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world.
When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?
They do fight, virtually.
Physically, do they fight?
No—
Do they bite each other’s hands? Do they punch each other?
The people or the...
Yes, there must be real people if it’s a real encounter with someone else.
Ha! Good ol' Werner; he must really miss Kinski.
We should never forget Galileo being put before the Inquisition.
It would be even worse if we allowed scientific orthodoxy to become the Inquisition.
Richard Smith, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal 1991-2004,
in a published letter to Nature
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