I always love the idea in Sci-fi that in technology, they've somehow figured out personal digital assistants, but not simple UIs or slim hardware.
Like in Alien where they have all this space technology, but didn't get past using DOS.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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TNG era Trek is funny with how right they got some things but how far off they still were.
They got tablets right, but couldn't concieve that they would have enough memory to hold all your documents or that the ship would have a cloud server. So you get scenes of people with stacks of tablets on their deck to look busy or crew members walking reports physically to the captain and handing over the hardware when you'd just do it via email in the real world now.
Very cool art
Love it, it's so 70/80s sci-fi styled.
I really like this title font, anyone know what it is (the serif one)?
Font squirrel shows this list[^1]:
[^1]: I don't know how long that link will work.
- Adobe® Garamond® Pro Bold
- Garamond Premier Pro Bold
- Garamond Classic FS Heavy
- Minion® Pro Subhead Bold
- Garvis Pro Bold
- Tribal Garamond Regular
- Adobe Arabic Bold
- Sina Nova Extra Bold
- Ines Bold
- Arno Pro Subhead Bold
- Argos Bold
- NCT Granite DEMO Bold
- Crimson Text Bold
- Brigade Bold
- Acta ExtraBold
- Garamond Modern FS Bold
- Garamond Nova Pro Condensed Bold
- Artigo Glb Extra Bold
- Kuenstler 480 Bold
- Apud Black
- Matrix II Bold
- Worcester Serial Xbold
- Kepler® Std Condensed Display Black
- Utopia® Std Caption Semi Bold
- Lyon Bold
- KG No Regrets Solid
- Magneta Condensed Bold
- Belda Condensed Extra Bold
- LeBrush Dark
- Concept Medium
- Unna Bold
- Galatia SIL Bold
- 1776 Independence Bold
- TWT Prospero Condensed Bold
- LaBodoni Bold
Oh yeah, it looks like Garamond with really tight kerning
Didn’t know this community existed or what it was. Started looking for one.
FYI: according to Aesthetics Wiki:
Cassette Futurism is a genre of retrofuturism based on the 70's and 80's. The media itself does not have to be set in this time period, but rather explore the speculated alternate future of it. As the name suggests, Cassettes are the main way of storing and transferring data.
It just needs "DON'T PANIC" plastered in friendly letters somewhere on the Device and it'd make a fantastic Hitchhikers Guide as well!
Is oddly reminiscent of the Pip-Boy from the Fallout games
My first thought as well. Wonder if there was any inspiration pulled from this device.
Reminds me of a lot of the devices in the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG rulebook.
Indeed, there are a few very cassette-futuristic gadgets there! I need to take some time to search the illustrators names (page 3) and see if they have more like this. Thanks!
Source: Cyberpunk 2020 - cyberpunk-the-roleplaying-game-of-the-dark-future-r-talsorian-games-inc.pdf
