Does that mean he's being promoted to Technician, Second Class responsible for the soup vending machines?
Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram
Putting the digital into "digital secretary", Jeremy Wright has been slated to appear at the UK Tory party's annual gabfest as a hologram. According to The Sunday Times, inside sources said the idea of having the secretary of state appear as a flickering light display was a part of efforts to make the conference "less boring …
COMMENTS
-
-
Monday 20th August 2018 10:47 GMT Pascal Monett
I can accept, and I practically expect, a politician to have no clue about technology.
I cannot accept a politician without a clue droning on about what he thinks needs to be done in a domain where cluelessness cannot be tolerated.
Surveillance without permission is invasion of privacy.
Encryption with backdoor is useless.
Get a grip on it already.
-
-
Monday 20th August 2018 20:24 GMT Chris G
Re: Oh no!
As a space saving exercise you could just put the arse in, it's been seen enough times to be recognisable.
If the Tories would like to include audience participation, then may I suggest a pantomime format;
May stands at mike:
Audience shouts " Bojo's behind you with a knife"
May: "Oh no he's not"
Audience: "Oh Ye...."
May runs off stage with a rubber (possibly) dagger in her back.
Most party conferences are like pantomimes; people on a stage acting badly and not very funny.
-
-
-
-
Tuesday 21st August 2018 13:12 GMT Michael Strorm
Re: Hologram you say?
> "Kudos to whoever it was who rebranded Pepper's Ghost as a 'hologram'."
The one good thing about this embarrassing attempt by the Tories to get down with the kids is that it provides good ammo to point out that they don't have a clue what a "hologram" actually is and that their idea of the latest technology is a 150-year-old relic from the Victorian-era masquerading as something modern.
Much like the Tories themselves.
-
-
Monday 20th August 2018 15:09 GMT Jason Bloomberg
If May saunters up to the lecturn, turns to the audience, and utters the immortal words, "I really can't be fucking arsed", walks off; that really would be a conference to experience.
Instead; Maylexa is almost certainly going to merely drone on and on, repeating how she's going to be delivering a brexit fror Britain, delivering what people voted for, a brexit which is good for...
Zzzzz.
-
-
-
Monday 20th August 2018 12:31 GMT VinceH
Please, please, please... if this is done, even if it is only a Pepper's Ghost effect, can the people involved prank him by convincing him it is absolutely necessary for him to have an 'H' stuck to his forehead. To help keep the cameras or whatever other equipment is used calibrated as he speaks.
-
Monday 20th August 2018 13:12 GMT Teiwaz
Tory conference with a hologram?
As far as an entertaining gig goes, I'd rather go see a Mika Hatsune concert (and that's not even generally a hologram).
-
Tuesday 21st August 2018 11:45 GMT jelabarre59
Re: Tory conference with a hologram?
As far as an entertaining gig goes, I'd rather go see a Mika Hatsune concert (and that's not even generally a hologram).
Actually the 2013 Yokahama Arena Magical Mirai show had the best staging of any of them. And the band behind them was live, which is more than I could say for any big-production political show.
-