Hasta La Ideas

We’ve all seen product placement on TV, or movies like Tower Heist that insert real-world newspeople like Matt Lauer covering the Thanksgiving Day Parade in order to lend it some verisimilitude. An interesting twist on these ideas is a scene from Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus sci-fi flick, which depicts a TED Talk—from the year 2023:

We’re digging the drone cameras. And we’re also glad that TED Talks are still going strong in Scott’s vision of the future, though it seems clear this Peter Weyland character is up to no good.

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