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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I remember reading something about the origins of beige computers which I think (this may be a false memory) discussed IBM models & some parallel developments in kitchen design; I should try to track down that source when I have better computer access than I do at the moment.
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One angle would be to find specific terms for different eras, some of which I need to refresh my own memory of - ex. my understanding was expanded when I learned of “blobject” as a term for late 90s/some early 00s design, & learned about tech which enabled those designs to happen
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