in The Expanse their ships are somehow powered/controlled by a shelf of things that look like this
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generalpotato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was it minority report or the matrix that showed humans storing data on glass?
Either way, this is pretty cool.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
nicoweio@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Star Trek also has this.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 months ago
And Star Craft and Stargate. Must be something a lot of sci-fi stuff has.
cazssiew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.
PMmeyourtitties@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
It was Minority Report, during the sequence when Anderson is going through the footage of the murder in the beginning of the movie. One of the guys puts some video from a nearby computer into a small tablet -size piece of glass and hands it to Anderson who plugs it in and puts the video on the main screen.
We’ve got some pretty good glove mouse things so we’re just kidding the pre-cogs.
ripolochon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In 2001, HAL is disconnected through glass like components.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you’re thinking of Star Wars. Like episode 2 or something.
ShustOne@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Definitely I’m Minority Report as well in several scenes
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t remember this anywhere in the matrix
ShustOne@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Minority Report had some glass storage stuff that was fun to see. He would insert a glass slide into the machine.
generalpotato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks! That may have been the case I was thinking of.