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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 133 James Cameron waited a decade until movie-making animation technology could enable him to present the film he envision depicting a society of marauding earthmen (mostly) of about 2150 attempting to obtain the ludicously named unobtanium of the satellite-world of Pandora, which seems to have a strong feminine leadership. Once again, men, metal, and destructive objects are pitted against wise women, ethereal sensitive animals and plants, and a sense of connectedness, a dialectic featured in several other sci-fi films. The technologydepicted seems to favor three-dimensional displays and the ever-present transparent screen displays. The latter seem to have become an iconic representation of advanced technology, much as rotating magnetic tape drives were in decades past. In my humble opinion, the movie is one of the most startling displalys of visual imagination ever conceived in the history of film. I could be wrong, but as the first file to gross more than $2 billion, it seems to be doing something right. Figures: Scenes from Avatar, 2009. 133
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 134 Figure: Scene from Avatar, 2009. Avatar is a visual extravaganza of a sci-fi movie with live action plus computergenerated imagery. Notable in the film are numerous HCI and/or intelligent-being-tointelligent-being interaction and communication. The creatures of the planet pandora engage in the intuitive, empathic, “natural,” “organic” methods of connection, without relying on the electro-mechanical methods of the Earth-people. Here, the blue-colored humanoid denizens and other “beasts” communicate with direct-fibre contact. (Acknowledgement: TBD.) 134
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