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02-21-2023, 06:17 PM | #11 |
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Why do you think it was a thing to have huge wall monitors in so many cartoons? It started in the 70s, I reckon, and I can't be sure, but I think it showed up first in Japanese animation. My earliest memory of it is probably the Hall of Justice in Super Friends, and then it was so ubiquitous you just took it for granted. You sort of expected there to be a bigass screen in the baddies' evil lair and the good guys' HQ.
I don't remember seeing it in Johnny Quest, which you'd think would be a prime candidate for such goofiness, so I think it came about just after or around the same time. Probably thanks to NASA's Mission Control during the Apollo missions and Star Trek. And I think it was the Japanese we primarily have to thank for it showing up in cartoons. Whatever and wherever, it became an omnipresent fixture in cartoons and pop-culture and hung around for a long time.
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02-21-2023, 06:49 PM | #12 |
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You know, it became so commonplace, you actually noticed when a big monitor WASN'T there, like in Jonny Quest. Before the bigass screen craze, computers were usually portrayed as just a box that made noises and flashed some lights. If it was a particularly high-tech computer, it was a box on a table that talked (and sounded just like a computer ought to) and/or spit out the answer to your question on a paper print out.
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02-21-2023, 10:11 PM | #13 |
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So what thing currently shown in science fiction will be our reality in 50 years? Well, not ours. We'll all be too old for that new fangled shit goddammit. Will everyone have nanotech clothing?
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02-21-2023, 10:28 PM | #14 |
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The free floating holographic projections controlled by voice and hand gestures via AI assistants like Iron Man's Jarvis. Which has pretty much replaced the giant monitors of the 80s in TV and Scifi movies nowadays.
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02-22-2023, 12:13 AM | #15 |
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02-22-2023, 08:46 AM | #16 |
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I remember as a kid, video on phone calls was something we marveled at from the future. The movie Aliens comes to mind specifically. A few years ago, I realized the tech was being used and none of us noticed it happening. One day it had just been there.
Every now and then I stick my head outside and look for flying cars, just in case I've missed them.
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02-22-2023, 11:03 AM | #17 |
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I remember as a kid, video on phone calls was something we marveled at from the future. The movie Aliens comes to mind specifically. A few years ago, I realized the tech was being used and none of us noticed it happening. One day it had just been there.
Every now and then I stick my head outside and look for flying cars, just in case I've missed them.
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07-28-2023, 12:47 AM | #18 |
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It's not as impactful if they made the screen the size of those old timey TVs. Also, as an illustrator myself, I think they can't get a group shot reacting to a screen the viewers couldn't tell who's speaking.
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