MSP75 [] The 100: Paying for Privacy

In the 2nd part of our Disrupted World series, MSP dismisses Avengers Endgame and looks to The CW’s The 100 for a solution to our privacy problems.

It was supposed to be a celebration of Star Wars for May 4th but we couldn’t think of anything that hasn’t already been done. That’s how Disruptive we are.

Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9

Show Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/reuters-america-update-2-facebook-overhauls-messaging-as-it-pivots-to-privacy.html

Episode Transcript

These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws.

As this show is airing on May 3rd, you might expect that uber Geek Matt Armitage would be doing a Mattsplained Star Wars tribute today. The answer, of course, is no. It seems like we’re going with the return of the slightly trashy steampunk sci-fi show The 100, instead.

Are we continuing last week’s Disruption theme with a TV show about the most Disrupted future you can imagine?
•Yes, I’m continuing with the Disrupted World theme we started last week.
•Originally I was going to do something that tied in with Star Wars a little more closely.
•In fact, I was planning to do a show about how movies now seem a little disappointing compared to games.
•I watched Avengers Endgame this week and I have to admit I was slightly disappointed.
•I’d heard all the hype and I’d kept away from spoilers – and don’t worry – no spoilers here, so I was imagining how it might work, especially now Captain Marvel has been admitted into the MCU.

What disappointed you?
•It turned out my imagination was taking me way further out than the movie went.
•Don’t get me wrong – it’s a really good movie, but I found it fairly predictable.
•That spun me back to the idea I’d had about so many movies being a little underwhelming compared to streaming shows and, of course, the increasingly vast universes that games now seem to inhabit.

But you don’t know enough about gaming?
•Yes. So, it made my comments seem a bit trivial.
•I stand by the idea though. The complexity of the worlds you can now explore and inhabit in gaming is astonishing.
•Especially the titles that don’t have a standardised gameplay.
•Where you can explore the world or worlds and bash a few heads along the way when you get bored, but where you can define your own role and your own place in those worlds.
•That’s far more interesting to me than the kind of linear narrative movies we’re seeing.

You’re going to talk about books again…
•I am, because I love books.
•I think what disappointed me the most about Avengers Endgame – and if some of you are wondering if you’re listening to a tech show or a movie review –
•This is a tech show and I will get to the point…
•The thing about Endgame was the idea of all the realms and dimensions that the previous movie, Infinity War, had laid open for us.
•I imagined it spinning off a little like the Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter series The Long Earth where the population of earth suddenly gains access to an almost infinite number of parallel earths and spreads out.

Before this gets any more complicated. Let’s summarise things a little. You decided not to talk about Star Wars because you were disappointed in the Avengers movie. You didn’t know enough about gaming to make your central point. And now you want to talk about The 100 because it’s the ultimate example of a Disrupted world?
•So nearly right. And yet so wrong. For two reasons which will I hope will become clear.
•When we started talking about Disruption last week, I thought it was going to be a one-off show.
•But since the