A computer voice on a ship full of push buttons, blinking crystal lights, and 1960's hippie lighting? No, that's just wrong.
Is it wrong if it feels so right?A computer voice on a ship full of push buttons, blinking crystal lights, and 1960's hippie lighting? No, that's just wrong.
Not really feeling your point, there.A computer voice on a ship full of push buttons, blinking crystal lights, and 1960's hippie lighting? No, that's just wrong.
Admittedly, Twiki is my first robo-love, then Majel, then Bender, then VINCent, then the cylons
I think I prefer my computers to be sarcastic ...
I really love that we all just decided to treat that as Stephen Hawking's voice.Steven Hawking kept his early mechanical voice emulator's signature "accent" long after he could have upgraded to something more closer to natural speech (of course because it had become such a part of his persona).
Ah, someone else who realizes those were not space stations or comm' satellites, but rather orbiting nuclear platforms, a segue from the first weapon to the ultimate weapon. Admittedly, I didn't "catch" that the first time I (partially) saw the movie (as that was the day my father died, nor when I finally saw the whole thing on HBO around 1980 or 81. I read an article about about the film's symbolism, and upon learning that element, I had a "Bill, you idiot! That makes so much sense! Why didn't you 'get' that?!" type moment.The match cut from the bone to the [nuclear bomb] satellite...
Interesting! Perhaps the voice "style" is a choice ... if so, does that mean Kirk picked a metallic voice for the computer?Now we only need the scene where a character in-universe notes how oddly Kirk's computer is speaking. "I always set mine to purring female, Jim. Is there something you aren't telling me?"
We never heard Pike's computer speak, now did we? So the second season of DSC is no threat to continuity here...
Timo Saloniemi
So that Roddenberry could get another character role in for his wife and make it easier for her to disguise her voice?Given the forward-looking and creative outlook of science fiction in the 50s and 60s, what made the producers balk and make the computer what it became?
That's okay, I tell her to do inappropriate things.I'm not keen on the way Siri talks to me now.
Its too familiar. I don't know her.
Perhaps there's a revolution in 280 years time that puts computers back in their rightful place. As tools. Not telling me what to do in a cheery voice.
Doesn't everybody?That's okay, I tell her to do inappropriate things.
Who's to say that a future computer voice system wouldn't sound like that? How many of us will still be here to say, you got it wrong there guys?
JB
I want all my devices to sound like original BSG Cylons... just so I never forget the danger.![]()
...now the trend is to make everything feel "familiar". There might be a backlash between now and 300 years from now over too much familiarity.
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