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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 -Name Product]] of Apple's products and generally does a good job of behaving as such, but occasionally things in the vein of this trope happen, like Gennai walking across the screen to deliver a spoken message. In the second and [[Digimon Adventure 02|fourth]] films, the computers there are Windows 95/98 and generally act the part, again with a few viewer-friendly oddities like the captured and emailed Kuramon in the fourth appearing on the desktop and being moved by Koushiro into a virtual refrigerator sitting in the middle of said desktop, and all the emails in the second opening up of their own accord upon receipt.
 
 
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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 This is actually real, if outdated.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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