[famousactress]

The Jurassic Park stuff wasn't done by a "guy", it was done by a team of folks, of which my mom was a part. (Specifically she helped pull together some of the spinning 3D xray skull stuff, wrote some c-shell scripts and was part of the sales team that sold the Sun systems to the movie). Also, the UI that you're probably talking about is this thing, and it's (sadly) real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

[archangel_one]

The most unrealistic thing about that wasn't the interface itself, it was the 10-year-old girl who says "This is Unix, I know this!"

[rbanffy]

Not to mention the whole dinosaur thing...

[archangel_one]

Yeah, but a movie called "Jurassic Park" with no dinosaurs would be pretty woeful. The same movie without 10-year-old experts in esoteric Unix UIs would have worked just fine.

[rbanffy]

It's OK to suspend incredulity for entertainment. I enjoy watching Star Trek even if I cringe when I imagine how implausible it is.

[jgarry]

Google: real devices from star trek

Could be that something in the near future as simple as relativity was 100 years ago will solve the hardest ones, namely transporter and ftl tech.

Then again, it was funny as hell to see the flying car in Captain America.

[archangel_one]

Somehow I suspect that the transporter and warp drive won't fall that easily, but I admit you never know :)

The tech level in Captain America was all over the place, which is deserving of a rant in itself, but suffice to say it was the most annoying part of that movie to me.

[famousactress]

No way. That little neckbeard girl was awesome, and I refuse to believe she doesn't exist somewhere.