It’s fascinating how the space SF hardware aesthetic of every era seems to mimic computer hardware aesthetic of that era TOS has a mainframe computer room look Star Wars has a PC era look (clunky little luggable devices like R2D2 with visible joints) Now it’s all Samsung look
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I wonder if Voyager is my favorite Star Trek because it has late PC era look, from about the time I bought my own first new computer (~1998). Beige everywhere and Jeff Goldblum on TV complaining about beige and pitching the bubblegum spectrum of iMacs.
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Wish I had a better eye for visual grammars so I could make this hypothesis more precise. Help
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For some reason I can’t see the first tweet in the thread, so I don’t know if I am missing out on some important information.
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