{"id":794,"date":"2005-10-25T22:40:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=794"},"modified":"2005-12-03T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T12:06:21","slug":"old-tech-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Old Tech in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’sbatl_star_gal<\/a> hard to make science fiction. Picture this: it’s 1980. You’re directing an episode of the Original Battlestar Galactica (which was then known as ‘Battlestar Galactica’ without the ‘Original’). Your main star is about to destroy a Cylon base. He has only 5 minutes left. Naturally, your character has to check his watch. Let that be a really advanced watch<\/em>. It’s 1980: The only advanced watch is a super-cool-duper calculator watch with red leds. Well, what was cool and advanced then, looks a kind of silly in the early 21st century. Not to mention, it’s not really what one would consider a piece of high-tech<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

Arthur’s Theorem: Science Fiction starts to suck when current known and existing technologies are presented as technologies that dominate the future.\n<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the now-time: The current Battlestar Galactica is pretty good. I saw episode 10 and I will reveal the main story line below: (use your cursor to highlight the paragraph right below)\n<\/p>\n

TO BE CONTINUED\n<\/p>\n

Yeah. Really. That’s what I thought too. Luckily the show will continue January 2006. Without red-LEDded calculator watches, I presume.\n<\/p>\n

Update: Just a moment, I was thinking of this scene I describe on my own blog<\/a>. Not at all related, but another famous item of the 80s.<\/p>\n

Update (12\/03\/05): Hughes calculater watch, that watch is apparently<\/a>.
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