Tuesday, May 14, 2013

TRON Legacy and Isomorphic Algorithms: Not Mere Technobabble

TRON Legacy and Isomorphic Algorithms: Not Mere Technobabble

Sci-fi fans know that scriptwriters for Star Trek: The Next Generation would often simply insert "tech" into the script in certain contexts and leave it to specialists to fill the space with technobabble. So, for instance, the scriptwriter would write

Picard: Engineering, what seems to be the problem?
Engineering: There's a problem with the [TECH]
and then pass it to someone else, who would turn it into
Picard: Engineering, what seems to be the problem?
Engineering: There's a problem with the quantum flux capacitor, which is depolarizing the dilithium crystals and causing the feedback circuits into temporal overload
Sometimes the technobabble is merely meaningless, scientific-sounding gobbledy-gook. And so I was pleased to come across an article which expressed appreciation for the use... [via Exploring Our Matrix]