Great to hear from you!!

Oh, all the authors are now here again... sigh... got something in me eye....

Wonder if this is a good time to start the PalmOS port of The Dungeon now....
(my mock-ups are still at
http://d1o867.telia.com/~u21405572/alternate-reality/temp/)

Sincerely, Robert Hagenstrom

Ps. The Matrix is originally a comic book series, so it was not the brothers
who came up with it... I do not know the origins of its concept.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Price" <pprice--austin.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:31 AM
Subject: AR vs. The Matrix...?


> I did talk to two guys while at a restaurant in Westwood[In LA , near
UCLA,
> it's the core of Hollywood]. I explained to them AR and it storyline,
ideas
> and the Hollywood movie Dark City simularities to some of it and it's
> differences[i.e. things I think they did wrong in that movie that made it
a
> bomb in the box office]. They listened intently, and one of them remarked
to
> me (as they smiled to each other) was that "ideas can't be copyrighted".
> Matrix came out a few years later, I very much doubt they were the two
> brothers who came up with Matrix, but it made me wonder after Matrix came
> out.
>
> Technically the idea of being deceived into thinking one's environment is
> one thing, when it is actually another has been expressed in Science
Fiction
> for decades before I used that core concept. Those books by great Science
> Fiction authors probably is where I got my kernel of an idea.
>
> Phil
>