Misspelled from the beginning, slyer versioning than beetle into Beatle, the Macintosh was the brainchild of Jef Raskin, the initiator of Apple's manuals, who began his computer revolution as a small work-group that quickly attracted Steve Jobs to its ideals. Here is a Stanford U clearinghouse of important documents from that evolution. The fusion of NeXT with Mac is the mutation that altered Apple's history, and is not examined in the link.

Genetic sampling indicates a single mutation in Homo Sapiens occured 60K years ago and the species descends from this one gene. This chart navigates the genes blending through samples.

Bioshock's Rapture locale, soon Columbia.

Local model of the area vaporized in first atomic blast. Only surviving building is green roofed structure upper right. Model is hyper-real (the water seems tropical, buildings lack aging) to offer dramatic contrast to the black-and-white images of the blasted remains.

"In the Navajo view of the world, language is not a mirror of reality: reality is a mirror of language."

"Naagháii is one of over three hundred thousand (356,200 by my calculations) distinct conjugations of the verb 'to go.'

Language and Art in the Navajo Universe by Gary Witherspoon, University of Michigan Press 1977

Set in the near and far future, A.I. was to be Kubrick's antithesis to both The Shining and 2001, instead of an odyssey, a fable: on an Earth succumbing to greenhouse ocean encroachment, a boy named David is created mechanically to imitate love on behalf of humans (an indication that humans no longer experience it), he gains greater awareness than his human owners (and creator) of the emotion, is orphaned by expulsion, experiences dire adventures with an opposite (a male robot created to fulfill pleasure instead of love) then escapes all grasp as he comprehends what they do not. His final act is to submerge in the underwater valleys of New York's ruins and patiently await the awakening of a statue of The Blue Fairy (set in the ruins of Luna Park, Coney Island). Thousands of years pass, metaphysically like the stargate infinity or the mute finiteness of Mr. Torrance's frozen still; life becomes extinct on an ice covered earth, the boy's passage is ended when ultra conscious beings, hybrids between robots and living entities, unearth him and allow him a 'day' of consciousness before his data is assimilated. No doubt an adventure Kubrick would have engineered as near satire hovering above calm efficiency, its remains exist inside an oddly sentimental version made by Spielberg. By rendering it for children he collapses the very meaning of the film while keeping its plot largely intact. Was it a test given to him by Kubrick? Thames and Hudson published a coffee table book that showcases how closely Spielberg followed the visuals Kubrick imagined, and incredibly, it proves visuals alone are not the center of any director's craft, we require the tone of interaction. Kubrick was certain David was to be a digital creation as no human could truly imitate a robot.

Could Kubrick have been any more obvious: the mecha discover a scaled-monolith before they find David. The test, how do you get this mega-structure onto a frame 2.33:1?

Thomas Ince invented the first film factory, Inceville, in 1918 on a discarded valley spot where Sunset Blvd. met the Pacific.

These could be seen as a form of psychic cultural conservation or entropy.