One of the unexpected mistakes I made as a kid was assuming that the wild computer interfaces shown in TV & movies were impossible and worthy of scorn

@jpf I once wrote software for a company inspired by a movie (Minority Report - and technically it was designed by the founders for the movie and then they decided it make it real)

@vaurora @jpf 😬

@jpf oh interesting! Could you expand on this?

@vaurora how cool! What was that experience like?

@alexr this was inspired by a conversation with my friend @progrium who mentioned that the computer in the film The Fly had a conversational interface. I was reflecting on how it must have seemed silly at the time … but not any more!

The overarching theme here is a growing belief of mine that what we can do with computers isn’t limited by anything but our imagination

@vaurora @jpf oh, phew, so not Torment Nexus, Inc. then

@vaurora @lindsey @jpf oblong was so cool! i loved the one demo app they had with all the rotoscoped segments from Playtime, i wish id had more time to work with it when i was at risd