Yesterday, I posted to my social networks a story from SlashGear entitled “Scientists encode MP3s, PDF, photograph, and algorithm to DNA” — a notion so cool and with so many potential ramifications that I can barely get my head around it. It made me wonder:
Oh, wow. So now we could have, like, *Raiders of the Lost Ark* or *Casablanca* injected right into our bloodstreams?
Which prompted Philadelphia film critic Carrie Rickey to suggest this as a QOTD. So:
What movie would you inject into your bloodstream?
Just to be ironic, I would have to inject Fantastic Voyage. Though obviously my nonironic choices would be Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca.
You?
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I think Fantastic Voyage is the perfect choice. The Body as Art.
I was going to suggest Videodrome, but I’m not sure I want that in my bloodstream.
I already have The Princess Bride in my bloodstream. Scenes from the movie show up in the head all the time, along with quotes from Douglas Adams, Aaron Sorkin, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They help me get through life. I work in public service, so occasionally the line “Your logic is insane and happenstance, like that of a troll” pops into my head. And when my love life is going badly, I think about the last paragraph of The Princess Bride–the original novel–which ends: “I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpty time, that life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
So many potential ramifications indeed, and so many cool SFnal possibilities. Espionage possibilities too. Spies carrying classified information around in their bloodstreams? I smell a Bond film.
Since DNA reproduces itself with errors and mutations, after a few hundred generations will crappy movies evolve into masterpieces? If I have The Last Airbender or Transformers injected into my bloodstream and eventually extracted from my great-great-grandkids, will they have turned into psychologically complex British dramas?
Buckaroo Banzai would probably feel right at home.
Yellow Submarine. Make of it what you will.
If I get “Empire Strikes Back” put in, will it make me a Jedi?
If I get “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” put in, will I become a cartoon?
Roger Rabbit world – man, that sounds so cool.
Innerspace.
That’s all right – it’s already there.
Ha!