Relaxation is important for the human psyche, if we don’t give the brain a chance to unwind it snaps. And entertainment often inspires. Many people working in the technology industry today, providing you with things like the computer you’re reading this from, became interested in their field because of TV shows and movies. In fact many of the devices of our life were thought up for entertainment first. If you have a tablet computer thank Star Trek, it was there first. Cellphone? Thank Star Trek again. We’re on a Batman thread, do you know why cops have so much equipment on their belt? Yeah the Batman utility belt inspired people to try something, something which eventually contributed heavily to the combat webbing our soldiers use. Ephemera tends not to be as ephemera as people like to think.
Relaxation is important for the human psyche, if we don’t give the brain a chance to unwind it snaps. And entertainment often inspires. Many people working in the technology industry today, providing you with things like the computer you’re reading this from, became interested in their field because of TV shows and movies. In fact many of the devices of our life were thought up for entertainment first. If you have a tablet computer thank Star Trek, it was there first. Cellphone? Thank Star Trek again. We’re on a Batman thread, do you know why cops have so much equipment on their belt? Yeah the Batman utility belt inspired people to try something, something which eventually contributed heavily to the combat webbing our soldiers use. Ephemera tends not to be as ephemera as people like to think.
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Humans have been relaxing as long as there have been humans. And humans have been playful and inventive for millenia. The screen has been around for about 100 years, but humans have been inventing and playing far longer.
I do not thank batman or star trak for my cell phone, I thank the inventors. Not the scifi.