Building TRON's Computer Interfaces, Augmented Reality in Your OJ

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In Praise of DistractionThe catch is that plenty of new research suggests that forcing Internet-addicted employees to go cold turkey may make them less productive, not more.Tron Legacy
I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded "equations" is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well.
Watch:
- holocene
- augmented reality orange carton
- Purdue team submits world record claim for Rube Goldberg Machine
Know:
- The ARPANET Dialogues archive captures a series of late '70s Internet chats between Edward Said, Jane Fonda, Francis Fukuyama and other notable political and cultural figures. [From: The ARPANET Dialogues]
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