Despite picking up computers at a young age, that was in 1995, nearly 3 decades after this moment. It still blows my mind at what we've been able to do with the power to simulate and visualize everything around us. It's something I do think "modern society" takes for granted - that there's so much about the world that we JUST learned about, or at least finally had a way to translate theories into a format digestible to everyone.

I wonder how as we learn to design out large scale AI systems future generations will think about how obvious they are to them but were actually revolutionary to us. For example if the multi-LLM agent simulations we're seeing with Interactive Simulacra[1] will spark new theories about how we should communicate with each other.

[1] https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

This came out the same year as the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and at the 10 minute mark in the video they have a program "singing" the same song as HAL 9000 in the movie, "Daisy Bell".

I wonder who inspired who, assuming it's not just a coincidence.

This film is great because it not only illustrates the wonderful abilities of early computers but also emphasizes the humans who build them. Something I don’t see as a focal point nowadays

Related. Others?

The Incredible Machine (1968) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219180 - March 2016 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689982 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7759856 (May 2014)

The real incredible thing is the "automatically generated subtitles". Try enabling them and watch the video again, Those need to be created by some AI, I guess.

So many techniques shown in the video: graphics cursor, toolbar, menubar, click&drag, rubberband

re: early computer graphics check out john whitney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIv-EcX9tUs)

They had to develop Figmas precursor in order to make that video.

Is it just me or do some of the people in this movie look like they haven't slept an in a while and are just trying to hold it together? They just kind of look like they're under a lot of pressure.

But it's a cool film. The rendition of Daisy Bell is what inspired HAL 9000 to sing the same song.

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU