MIS(S) Presentation Notes - Nathan Shedroff

What about narrative?
In cinema, every scene must establish something new (implying change, advancing the story).
Interface, technology, and sex are prominent enough to take the focus off the story those scenes.
So, what changes: the interface fails (we see a lot), or the sex itself has to have meaning. You
canʼt really have a scene where two people have sex successfully through an interface because
itʼs pure tech-porn and canʼt advance the plot (unless the tale is specifically and only about
seduction or developing the tech in the first place). Sex needs to drive the story in cinema but in
the realworld, sex is the story. Essentially, sex breaks SciFi storytelling. But there may be
something more fundamental at work here…