The idea of surrogate robots with advanced humanoid capabilities is neat, but the fact they still use out-dated everyday technology in the surrogate world kinda deflates the futuristic tone of the movie. IMO.
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Who is to say the USB flash drives they used in the future are anything like today's devices? They might have a thousand times the storage capacity of current flash drives.
shareIt's the design concept that seems outdated. There are already Micro SD cards the size of your pinky nail that carry 32 GB of storage. Since we're dealing with Science-Fiction in this film where robotic technology is eons ahead of our current stage I would imagine that personal computers in this world would be completely different than the way they're portrayed here. I'm sure it was a production decision to keep costs down, but I think they could have aimed for a more vivid futuristic world where everyday mundane technologies would impress the modern viewer.
Think of the technologies featured in movies like "The Minority Report", or any Star Trek film and you'll get the gist of what I'm saying.
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Right, but designs tend to stay around for a long time due to user familiarity. For example, we've been using optical disks for over 15 years now. They started as CDs, then DVD, now BluRay. It's still the same size and shape disk.
shareGood point.
shareActually Optical Discs like CD has been around for over 30 years now!!
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Maybe that 'outdated' usb flash drive had a million terabytes capacity, duh.
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May be that flash drive had a small Detonator which detonated a nuclear bomb in say Pakistan.
All Tom had to do is just connect the drive to a PC->open a dos prompt->enter a command "DETONATE".....now that would be futuristic. ha!
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Another way to look at it is that perhaps things had stagnated to the point that everything went into making Surrogates, but other areas of tech fell to the wayside. Then take into account all the supposed upgrades for Surries that were coming out: the automove function so others wouldn't know you had stepped afs (away from surrogate) to go to the bathroom for example. These machines were taking up more and more of their societies time that nothing else seemed important.
You know, like Cell Phones. ;)
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Actually Optical Discs like CD has been around for over 30 years now!!
true the first cd prototype was shown in 1979
The director said on the commentary that it was not set in the future, but today or in the very near future, as though in an alternate reality.
He did this so people would not be distracted from the story by future technology.
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The thing about creating a futuristic world is that you still need things in that world which operate in a way that we (in the present) can still understand. Everyone understands the concept of a USB drive.
If the film, instead, had a telepathic link that required sub-level password encryption that was authorised with bio-regulated systems matrix, the audience would be like WTF?
If the (created) future world had an amazingly advanced way of storing or transferring data, the film would probably need another minute to explain how it worked for that scene to work (where Greer is stealing data with his USB drive). It's easier for them just to use a USB stick. It still allows the story to progress.
that was not a usb drive, but a butt plug for surrogates.
its called.
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