Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents reopens this month. They've moved the ClintonBot back into the wings and set up a DubyaBot in its place. Clinton was the first President to record his bot's spiel, and Dubya will be the second. The Imagineering team is also matching DubyaBot's motions to those of the real Dubya. They tried that with the Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln bot in Disneyland, using historically researched gestures, but larded gesture upon gesture until the Rail-Splitter appeared to have Tourette's. In science fiction workshops, we call this over-researched material "I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn," as when a writer drops 100 pages of Sumerian mythology into the middle of a great cyberpunk thriller. Link Discuss (via Exciting Monkeybum Stories for Boys and Girls)
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