See also "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection"
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/ On 1/11/2009, "info" <[email protected]> wrote: >A Brief History Of Zombies. > >James Turner, > >The sci-fi undead are personifications of technology gone horribly wrong. > >The atomic bombs that dropped on Japan in 1945 inspired movie director >Ishiro Honda to give the world the big, bad, grey monster, born of >irresponsible nuclear weapons tests that we know to this day as >Godzilla. Godzilla was, quite literally, the personification of >humanity's science and technology gone bad. The message was simple: With >atomic weapons, we had unleashed a monster that was beyond our ability >to control. > >In the West, Godzilla's cautionary tale (and tail) never really took >hold. To Americans, Godzilla was just a guy in a rubber suit stepping on >model houses. But that's not to say that the West hasn't had its own >cinematic symbol of science run amuck. Instead of giant irradiated >monsters, our preferred poison has been flesh-eating zombies. >Article Controls > >Until George Romero's landmark 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, >zombies in movies usually were created from voodoo or magic (or aliens, >as featured in Ed Wood's groundbreakingly awful Plan 9 From Outer >Space.) Romero gave us brain-munching corpses produced from a space >probe blowing up in the atmosphere. Once again, the monsters were >created by our out-of-control technology. > >more... >http://tinyurl.com/yd8vvtj >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
