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"There was a time when one old eccentric guy with a notebook could do something important to science. Now even the resources of a major university are often not enough."
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Flatscreen Movie | ||
| Like holographic or three-dimensional recordings, but showing only two dimensions. |
Way retro, those flatscreen movies. Your new 42 inch flat panel monitor is only two-dimensional - nothing like science fiction to let you know how much more better the future will be than the present.
| "It's different, but I like it," Randy said. "The Ceremonies?" "Yeah. We 'say grace.'" "Like in the old flatscreen movies?" "Yeah." |
| Technovelgy from Orbital Resources,
by John Barnes. Published by Tor in 1991 Additional resources -
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I wonder if movie studios will try to "three-dimensionalize" movies, just like they tried to colorize them? You don't hear much about colorization anymore. Is it because there really isn't that big a market for those old movies? The biggest differences between old black and white movies and present day movies is pacing - not color or even special effects.
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