Film Scriptwriting by Engineers
March 18th, 2006Found this interesting Wired.com article on how Hollywood can be leveraged to (hopefully) attract young minds to science and engineering. Apparently, an effort has been underway since 2004 (by the Air Force Ofice of Science Research), to have real-life researchers develop film scripts. While it would be nice to see watch movies that are technically sound, but its debatable whether a scientifically correct script can pull off a blockbuster, without some element of sci-fi - like uploading a virus into an alien mothership.
Amongst the ideas featured, the movie I’d go watch is Drexler’s Laboratory 
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