I don’t think anachronistic means what you think it means.
I certainly do. Why don’t you try and enlighten me if you are so sure, Mr. Vocabulary?
I get it.
The data center that the computer is in is designed to look like a data center of the year 2050.
Isn’t that it?
Wait, wait, maybe the guys’ suits are made of a new fiber that won’t be invented until 2100...that must be it.
I’ll rewatch it to make sure............
I suppose he could argue that posting a 1954 computer ad on a 21st century discussion forum is anachronistic, but it’s certainly not hilarious. It’s historically accurate.
And he mischaracterizes the HAL9000 too. HAL was capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, and even lip-reading - all of which were exceptionally advanced concepts when the film was made. Is also an early demonstration of predictive maintenance or prognostics, which raised the issue of “nuisance alarms” which continue to plague these systems today...did HAL actually detect a failure signature or was that intentionally contrived? The point is that HAL did not “make a mistake” as much as it carried out it’s mission in a way that wasn’t healthy for the humans.
FWIW, I once suggested that a predictive maintenance software tool be named “HAL”. Now THAT would have been an anachronism!
I’m pretty sure the Anachronism Model 101 was invented in late 1955. Marty McFly can confirm that.