Creepy Computer-Generated Avatar Greets Travelers At Newark Liberty

CBS New York ^ | July 27, 2012 | Unattributed

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The future was among the arrivals at Newark Airport on Friday, in the form of a computer-generated greeter at the gate.

Travelers met “Libby.” She’s Newark Airport’s newest — and perhaps most chipper — customer service rep. You may have noticed that she’s a bit shallow, and she’s completely two-faced, but she’s always smiling, and she never complains.

“Hello, and welcome to Newark Liberty International Airport. You have arrived at Terminal B,” the avatar says.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13:15)

The technology for this prophecy is here, it is already being put into common use, and Revelation 13:15 will soon be fulfilled.

[raybbr]

Oh, for cryin’ out loud. Nobody is “worshiping” the thing. It’s a computer like the one you typed your message on.

[Yardstick]

Are you denying that we’re all doomed?

[shibumi]

Welcome to The Uncanny Valley.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Sigh. Yep, Revelation 13:15 is foolishness because even though the world now has the technology to make that passage come to pass, it's just something from a computer and everyone knows that nothing that God said in the Bible has ever come to pass and, when you get right down to it, the Bible is a book of fairy tales just like Aesop's fables. Nobody should be the least bit alarmed that Revelation 13:15 can now happen because, yeah we can now make it happen but the Bible is a joke and all the Biblical prophecies that have already been fulfilled down to the last detail were just coincidences.

You just keep right on believing that. But you may want to take a peek at how everything plays out just in case you're wrong.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Are you denying that we’re all doomed?

Well, not everybody is doomed. Many, yes, because of their own choices, but not all.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Wow - I do agree that for some it is strangely uncanny how a person can make an image of someone else that can speak and how uncanny it is that God said that exact thing would happen right before He returns!

It's just so uncanny and unbelievable!

[raybbr]

Wow - I do agree that for some it is strangely uncanny how a person can make an image of someone else that can speak and how uncanny it is that God said that exact thing would happen right before He returns!

Television has been around for over 60 years. I guess "right before" is in Biblical time - about a thousand years?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

This isn’t a Caucus thread, but you guys may be interested in this.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Where in the Scripture is television specifically mentioned as something that would signal the return of Christ?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Ping!

[the invisib1e hand]

What sorts of drugs do these morons take that convinces them that people like shiit like this?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Huh??

[RegulatorCountry]

Dr. Mori has rediscovered sacred geometry, or maybe discovered it if Japanese culture contains no such guiding aesthetic principle. I suspect it does. However, as any good artist or designer can tell you, too-perfect symmetry goes too far and also falls into what he terms “the uncanny valley.”

If you want to create true beauty, and beauty is after all regarded as the mark of God, you’ll strive for perfect symmetry but throw it off just ever so slightly in some way. This makes it human and of this world, rather than mechanical and sterile and sometimes alarming.

In architecture, this can be as simple as a window or door that subtlely breaks an established rhythm or pattern in the facade. In a dog, a slightly lopsided, goofy grin. In a person, one eye ever so slightly larger than the other or a slightly crooked tooth. Here, too, the undergirding principles of sacred geometry come into play.

There is always a particular proportion at work, even in the apparent imperfections, and that proportion is Pi. A leaf, a flower, a woman’s face, a church, if they’re beautiful the math is there, and if they’re beautiful it’s been thrown off of absolute perfection in some subtle way.

Look around you, and you’ll see it, it’s utterly unavoidable, profound and mundane simultaneously.

[the invisib1e hand]

You’re right, it’s not worship — it’s something far worse: subservience.

[the invisib1e hand]

s (note: s-slash-s) Show me where in the bible it talks about computers!! /s

[isom35]

can Libby get me a beer and make me a sammich?

[the invisib1e hand]

you’ll strive for perfect symmetry but throw it off just ever so slightly in some way.

most of us have no difficulty with the "throw it off" part.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s the ever so slightly part that most of us blow right past, lol.

[the invisib1e hand]

Huh?

Is there a "draw-you-a-picture" feature on FR yet? Not sure how much clearer I can make a simple question on my end.