Star Technology and UIs on Movies: Entertaining a Diverse Audience
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
Multimedia, AV With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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RE:The best computer UI in Sci-Fi history
by Gil Bates on Wed 10th Sep 2003 05:41 UTC

Would have to be that Esper machine that Harrison Ford was talking to in his living room in BladeRunner to analyze some kind of holographic digital photo one of the replicants left behind ("a little left, more, OK now zoom in....") The interaction felt quite real, IIRC, but I guess that machine would be an embedded system and not a "computer".

I think that the interfaces in the Max Headroom show ('80s)were a good example of something that both geeks and normal people could find acceptable to look at and got the point across and kept the plot moving forward. Remember, ALL professionals typically hate the way that their professions are inaccurately depicted in movies, TV and novels - this includes lawyers, docters, police - everyone.