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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 110
Figure: Scene from Minority Report, 2002
In manipuating photographic scenes on transparent displays through hand-gestures,
while innovative for the movie and the audiences of the time, the HCI command-control
circumstances seem to have almost no use for alphanumeric or other icon/symbol
depictions so prevelant in todayʼs HCI schemes. Perhaps this is merely the moviemakerʼs
homage to the visual medium vs. text-literature, but might even be a
disparagement to written literature vs. the achievements of pictorial storytelling.
(Acknowledgement: TBD.)
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