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5th Element- Favorite Designer

 Favorite Designer Sherri Hill American fashion designer Focuses on formal evening wear Pageant dresses Shown at Miss USA and Miss Universe  Wedding gowns Prom dresses

Ready Player One

Avatars: They can choose their exact appearance and change it anytime Characters are known by their avatars Parzival knew who Art3mis   was from her previous work  They can locate each other easily Aech mentions how Art3mis could be a 300ln man from Detroit, pretending to be a pretty girl to get access to the keys Wade and Samantha actually live so close together, but they met in the OASIS Second Life Second life is a 3D-generated virtual world and platform with user-generated content. Players can interact with one another and perform lifelike actions. Similar to Sims Has a virtual economy powered by real money Players can create their own avatars It is not considered a video game because it predates the term

Star Trek

Star Trek (1966)  Technological Advances: Teleporting (beaming) Video conferencing Telecom Flip phone? Elevator  Flat screen  Technology on tables Lazer guns Space ships

Ghost in the Shell

  If we are part human/part machine, do Asimov’s rules still apply? A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Kusanagi robot kills a human in the first scene Shoots the man with political asylum  Project 2501: hurts humans by blowing up facility to escape A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Kusanagi was helping the police catch the guy in the red shirt, but she did harm him She wants to dive herself to discover if there are a ghost and orders humans to let her be the first  Robot fingers to type at a rapid speed Bateau is always following instructions Searching for rogue robots A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Kusanagi said if she were to give her body and computer brain back, there wouldn't be much left She has her own conscious but is confined in her body She is ...