Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
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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I realize that computers in ordinary life are not flashy enough to be used in movies as is, and need to be jazzed up by Hollywood. The only thing that used to drive me crazy in the 80's and 90's were people watching these films that knew me as a "computer geek" who would not be computer literate at all, would see all these neat things being done by computers and would not even question the reality of it. Then when they would see me doing things that were not as flashy and cool, and so quickly (like new windows opening and closing on screen full of content like in Star Trek 4 just with a few random keystrokes), they would assume I was not very good at it. I remember having explain to them that computer effects in movies are not reality, but when you are a kid trying to tell an adult they are wrong, it is hopeless. Another movie would come out and we would have to start all over again. Oh well!