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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too many things called 'The Incredible Machine'. I just clicked on the video for a second and the first image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic, because at a glance it looked like some kind of ultrasonic scanner.

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I did click the link, as I said.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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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

I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and nineties

“Thomas Knoll” is forever imprinted in my memory.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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"The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI happened the same year. It was done live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8 It included: - A pointing device (the first mouse) - A GUI - Hypertext - Word processing - Collaborative real-time editing of a document - Video conferencing - File sharing

The first mouse pointer is a bitmap of an arrow pointing straight upwards.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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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.

It's just you.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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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'm guessing they're engineers trying to re-enact their jobs while trying to act naturally in front of a camera. This might be harder for people who didn't grow up with the presence of cameras (and the sense that they're always on display) like later generations.

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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.

The subtitles at 5:55[0] in the video are fantastic - AI subtitling random beeps and noises into words.

> the brutal purple from people broke rabin of remind bravo are all these they have hadn't usually mean happened

What is it trying to tell us? (:

[0]https://youtu.be/iwVu2BWLZqA?t=355

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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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.

From Wikipedia: In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis... Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 704 demonstration during a trip to Bell Labs in 1962 and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.[13]

The earliest demonstration of electronic speech synthesis was actually at the 1939 world’s fair. I think it was keyboard operated, though, and not driven by a computer.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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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

I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and nineties

In part because programs back then were written by one or at most a handful of people that could be easily credited in the "About" box or equivalent. If you wanted a list of the authors of say Microsoft Excel or Adobe Illustrator today, the issue is that literally thousands of programmers contributed to them.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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"The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI happened the same year. It was done live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8 It included: - A pointing device (the first mouse) - A GUI - Hypertext - Word processing - Collaborative real-time editing of a document - Video conferencing - File sharing

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