<story><title>Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers</title><url>https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>I wrote about hackers too, &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dusted.dk&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;phlog&amp;#x2F;2023-12-02.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dusted.dk&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;phlog&amp;#x2F;2023-12-02.txt&lt;/a&gt; the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what&amp;#x27;s not their screens, but what&amp;#x27;s in their minds, through a poetic lens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitshiftfaced</author><text>One of my favorite scenes is when the protagonist is in the airplane looking down at the city, and the buildings warp into computer chips and circuitry. This fits well with the idea that what we&amp;#x27;re seeing is more about the feeling that the characters are experiencing rather than what&amp;#x27;s actually on their screen.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers</title><url>https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>I wrote about hackers too, &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dusted.dk&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;phlog&amp;#x2F;2023-12-02.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dusted.dk&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;phlog&amp;#x2F;2023-12-02.txt&lt;/a&gt; the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what&amp;#x27;s not their screens, but what&amp;#x27;s in their minds, through a poetic lens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr1</author><text>Well said. It&amp;#x27;s amazing how often people dismiss computer visualization in media (&amp;lt; ~2005) as &amp;quot;unrealistic.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not the goal!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s intended to be representative of the &lt;i&gt;process&lt;/i&gt; of interacting with a computer, not the interface itself. At a time when most viewers had little or no first-hand experience with a computer.&lt;p&gt;If you showed a CLI then, maybe 1&amp;#x2F;20 people would understand it, and they&amp;#x27;d be bored because they used it everyday at work.</text></comment>