Who Wears the Pants Scene 48

Computationally the overhead of handling that much information was enormous. However, with the introduction of the thirty-two gigahertz video processors and the implementation of two terabyte chips of ultra-high speed VRAM for each panel in the parallel array, the problem had been solved to everyone’s satisfaction. In other words, the video offered by the movie house was standard. The audio, however, was something else again. The Dobie ® surround techniques had been surpassed relatively early by digitally mapping the ranging and locating techniques utilized by the human brain. A nearly universal template was created that used phase and delay techniques to make sounds be perceived by the human brain as if their location was anywhere the movie director wanted it to be. That was old technology. Sensorium ® got in your head. Literally. Secret military weapons experiments with electromagnetic radiation to affect the enemy mood from the nineteen nineties had escaped the government’s control and had become widely known. Unlike the slow, methodical and horribly expensive approach of government contractual researchers, the movie industry had taken the idea and had shaken value out of the technique the way a terrier shakes a rat. Using Third World prisoner “volunteers” as lab rats, they had quickly managed to discover how to induce almost any emotion into a human. Hundreds of prisoners had died of convolutions or had been reduced to mindless idiocy as a consequence of massive doses of electromagnetic radiation that resonated with the frequencies of the human brain. By shifting frequencies and changing the envelope of the wave packet, the studios discovered that certain “universal” scents and tastes could be artificially invoked in the human brain. Even minor muscular twitches could be evoked by this means. Movies were no longer made on film although the general public still referred to the augmented video productions as films. Instead, they were created on mastered video disks that outputted gigabytes of data every second. Pornography took on a whole new meaning as the studios learned how to digitally remaster old prints and give them entirely new dimensions. They could make a either a saintly nun or (more easily) a sexual pervert orgasm upon command. Personality and desire had nothing to do with the effects they could create. They could take control of the human mind and create any illusion they wanted. Movie directors discovered that they could play entire audiences like orchestras of well-tuned violins. All it took was four loops of antenna wire embedded in the head rest of each seat. Once a customer sat in one of their seats, he was theirs in both body and soul. There was nothing to compare with the experience of actually being there.