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Contrast with [[Unusual User Interface]]. Also see [[Technology Porn]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* The aesthetic of the [[Ghost in The Shell]] anime franchise is partly defined by its distinct manner of visualizing the Net and human-computer interaction, replete with oversized flashing letters, completion bars, dials, meters and windows floating in space. Also, the OS wars seem to be over - every single computer display uses the same look.
** Viewers never get a good look at an actual computer screen. The flashiest interfaces exist within [[Cyberspace]] and could be attributed to the users' minds making sense of data, while cyborg users can have their perception enhanced with AR elements if they desire -- including adding extra elements (that no one else can see) to a normal computer display.
* Partially averted and partially played straight in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. Koushiro's laptop is a [[Bland
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* ''[[Bridget Jones|Bridget Jones's Diary]],'' featuring messages displayed one letter at a time. This is actually real, if outdated. You can still find programs that allow for realtime chat that show exactly what is typed, when it's typed, but your average person wouldn't use one.
* In ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]] Vs. Predator'' - when this sort of thing would usually require a modicum of human intervention - a computer announces by way of bright red flashing that it's detected an "unusual heat signature" and then zooms in on the satellite photos of the source and generates a map which shortly thereafter becomes a plot point.
** Admittedly, this is a computer getting a feed produced by the film's fictional Weyland Corporation, the founder of which is the "pioneer of modern robotics", but this takes place and was ''filmed'' in 2004, so this would have to be a case of [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] in that case.
* Computer usability guru Jakob Nielsen has written a list of the [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html Top 10 Usability Bloopers in the Movies]
** He should see ''Star Trek IV''. It illustrates his point about the time travellers brilliantly- [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Hello, computer."]]
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