From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!jdd
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: computers in the movies
Article-I.D.: allegra.986
Posted: Tue Mar  1 15:51:34 1983
Received: Wed Mar  2 07:01:09 1983

The biggest problem in the representations of computers in
the movies is that producers and directors don't ever see
real computers, but they do see each other's work.

This inbreeding of the imagination is obvious in almost all
of the TV and most of the movies that one sees.  The catch-22
(good book, poor movie) is that they are giving us what we
want, which is what we are used to, which is what they are
used to, which is why they give it to us, and so forth.

The solution is to nuke Hollywood.

Cheers,
John ("Send Flames to allegra!honey") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill