10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film

Luke Hachmeister writes to mention a light piece at GideonTech on some of the truly terrible portrayals of technology in film. From Hackers to AntiTrust, Hollywoood just can't stick to reality. From the article: "Harrison Ford plays a security expert at a bank. He falls prey to a scheme to steal money for a gang that has taken hostage of his family. The film tried very hard to keep it a rollercoaster ride of thrills. From the beginning, you have Harrison Ford typing furiously to stop a hacker by writing new firewall rules. At least this time, these rules didn't float around in a rainbow of colors ala Hackers. What really puts Firewall at the top of the list, is the dumbest and non-believable use of an iPod to date. This is 2006, not 1995, you can't just make stuff up like this anymore. In the middle of the film, Harrison Ford happens to not only be a security expert, but an Apple hardware developer too."

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[Heir Of The Mess]

Unrealistic stuff in movies causes real difficulties in the real world.

There was a problem with a line item in a database that had no part number against it. It had originated from an order from a group of people who are allowed to order anything they want. The item description was "A sword that cuts through anything". There was no part number, so we had to try to track down this item. We figured it was probabaly something someone had seen in a catalogue where the capabilities were exagerated a bit. Eventually we tracked down the source - apparently it was something they had seen in a Lara Croft movie. [sigh]

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[ben there...]

The only good story in the past 6 hours and it's /.ed.

Time to lose some brain cells reading such interesting stories as "I'm a PC Guy" uses a Mac.