I was watching the movie Transcendence on one of my cable movie channels, and when Johnny Depp’s mind gets uploaded onto the Internet, he starts doing all this stuff, like making lots of money on the stock market, helping his wife escape from Neo-Luddite terrorists, and helping the FBI track the terrorist group responsible for his death. Then I thought about what might really happen in this scenario of someone’s intelligence being uploaded to the Internet, and I thought it was more likely they’d be watching lots of cat videos on YouTube. And then I thought that would make a fun ad for some cat food, like so:
A team of scientists is trying to upload some genius scientist’s mind into the Internet for the first time, and once it’s accomplished, they all start asking what he’s doing. One asks if he’s secured world peace by stopping all nuclear weapons systems. Another asks if he’s stabilized the world’s economy and used his skills to erase the national debts of all nations. And another asks if he’s come to a greater understanding of mathematics and science from culling all available data together. But the guy who’s keeping track of the online activities says: “Nope, he’s just watching a bunch of cat videos.” Then the announcer says: “We all love our cats, so feed them Friskies, and keep those frisky cat videos coming.”
(There are never enough cat food tie-in ads for sci-fi movies, you know.)
This is the movie Transcendence, for those unfamiliar with it:
