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3 min readFeb 20, 2023

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Science fiction films love to show off huge leaps in technology. The latest Avatar movie features autonomous, spider-like robots that can build a whole city within weeks. There are spaceships that can carry frozen passengers lightyears away from Earth. In James Cameron’s imagination, we can download our memories and then upload them into newly baked bodies.

All this wildly advanced tech is controlled through touch-activated, transparent, monochrome, and often blue holograms. Just like a thousand other futuristic interfaces in Hollywood.

Why all of Hollywood UI looks the same
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  • Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech
    ”Currently, Netflix is focused on maximizing its revenue, which explains why there’s now an ad-funded version of a Netflix subscription. It also explains why Netflix is cracking down on password sharing: it desperately needs more free cash flow, says Charles Kane, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan.”
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    ”It all begins with intention. There’s something in our environment that we would like to change. Formulated in terms of motion, this intention emerges as a question of ‘Where do we intend to go?’”
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    ”However, I will say this about me: I do a pretty good job of channeling my procrastination into adjacent creative tasks which, in the end, influence, shape, and improve the chunks of work I do complete. And that looks like productivity from the outside.”

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