Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed (vice.com)

tedlistens writes: At Motherboard, Alex Pasternack writes: "Star Wars is set in a world of wildly advanced technology. But take a good look at the machinery of Star Wars, and you may be surprised to see how wonderfully analog it all is -- buttons! levers! vector graphics! Yes, there are hyperdrives and lightsabers and hologram Princess Leias and droids that know six million languages (including the language of moisture vaporators, along with various etiquette and diplomatic protocols useful across the galaxy). But it's also a world where sometimes you have to hit a robot to get it to work, like an old dashboard radio, a place where the supercomputers are operated manually and where buttons and control panels and screens seem far removed from our own galaxy: tactile, lo-fi, and elegantly simple." May the 4th be with you.

Comments

Re:actually pretty realistic

[Anonymous Coward]

So you're going to apply realistic science to a fairy tale full of magic?

You're overthinking it, idiot. Star Wars is political fantasy about the Nixon administration. That's all.

Ermaghad no waayys

[wonkey_monkey]

Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed

Oh my god, you're right, I totally missed the fact that Star Wars is set in a grubby, dirty universe with clunky robots and thinks that fall apart! I mean, it was so subtle I never even saw it. Mind. Blown.

Sheesh.

Re:The Spice Must Flow!

[ultranova]

Does anyone know why a wood fire melted the most technologically advanced suit of power armor in the universe?

Because it was built by the same military contractors who made the Death Stars?