Hollywood?s Role in Innovation ? and SOPA

Silicon Valley may be a garden of innovation, but many of the seeds were sown by Hollywood. Earlier generations of innovators were inspired by shows such as?Star Trek,?Lost in Space, and?The Jetsons; later generations, by films such as Aliens,?Terminator, and?Avatar. Hollywood brought science fiction to the masses and gave people big things to dream about. And music spread the inspiration ? it was a social network before social networks existed. These were some of the things we discussed at the?Singularity University?executive program?on the Mulberry Street set at Hollywood?s Fox Studios, last weekend.

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