Let’s take a break from data science and application development to talk about a vastly more important topic: TV and movies. Ever notice how badly Hollywood does computing? Here are eight “computer as a magic box” plot devices that drive me nuts.
1. Waiting for the image to resolve
One of my favorite series, "Battlestar Galactica," was one of many shows to use the old “resolving the image” ploy as a plot device. While technically "Battlestar" takes place many years ago far away from earth, the computers seemed very close in capability to the ones we have today. It has been many, many years since computers took significant time to “resolve an image.”
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