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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 55 Figure: Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. An astronaut views a birthday greeting. The movie takes pains to show the use of data and video transmitted across long spatial distances, making quick-interactive communication impossible. Here an astronaut views a birthday-greeting video made earlier and transmitted finally to the distant space ship. Note the simple telephone-keypad buttons and unlabeled status lights, more like a home-consumer device that an engineer-oriented environment. The movie is notable for the somewhat “lavish” amount of attention given to such controls. In general, the pace of the movie is stately, and the silence of outer space is emphasized more than in most such films, some of which have featured for dramatic effect the “sound” of spaceship rockets blasting away in outer space (when in fact no sound would be transmitted without air to carry the sound waves). (Acknowledgement: TBD.) 55
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 56 Figure: Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. Close-up view of a data display. Some of the displays in the movie have the look-and-feel of crude vector and raster technical displays of the 1950s and 60s, such as this one. It is disappointing to think that HCI professionals might not have had an impact on the legibility and readability of all capital-letter data displays with little or no typographic hierarchy and more sophisticated use of visible language. (Acknowedgement: TBD.) 56
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