IN 1994 SUN MICROSYSTEMS FILMED A WOMAN SWIPING THROUGH A TOUCHSCREEN TABLET AND VIDEO CALLING A COLLEAGUE MID TASK. THE iPAD SHIPPED 16 YEARS LATER
shot on 35mm film, more than a hundred engineers and designers on it, set in the year 2004, and here's the thing almost nobody mentions
it wasn't allowed to be science fiction, the team had one hard rule, only show things they actually believed could be built, so this wasn't a fantasy reel, it was a spec sheet pretending to be a movie
she drags documents with her fingers, talks to the machine, pulls a file from the other side of the world, drops into a live video call without thinking about it, this is a boring afternoon for you now, it was an impossible budget in 1994
the strange part is they weren't dreaming, they were trying to build it, then the company that filmed the future quietly moved on and a different company shipped it a decade and a half later and got called visionary for it
nobody stole it, they just forgot it was already designed, down to the gestures your thumbs make every morning
you think the touchscreen era started when you first held a phone that felt alive, it was fully storyboarded before some of you were born
watch it once and you can't unsee how little we actually invented ↓
Old cathode ray tube TVs were essentially miniature particle accelerators sitting in our living rooms.
It's fascinating to think that for decades we watched images created by an electron gun firing beams at a phosphor-coated screen, making pixels glow thousands of times per second.
Hugh Grant says kissing Julia Roberts wasn’t great because she had “such a large mouth.”
“Very big mouthed! Literally, physically, she has a very big mouth. When I was kissing her in Notting Hill, I was aware of faint echo.”
“She might hate me. I made too many jokes about that”
Running an ice cream cone under steaming hot water and it resists melting, eventually it washes away
Many ice creams in America will no longer melt because the ingredients have been changed, they are actually engineered to not melt. Modern ice creams have:
- Higher Levels of Stabilizers and Gums
- High percentages of Vegetable Oils and Fats instead of Dairy Fat
- More Air than standard ice cream, sometimes over 100%
- More sweeteners, maltodextrins and other solids adjust the freezing point
Many ice creams can’t even legally be called ice cream anymore in America
Our food is a science experiment
A 19-year-old Japanese man created an AI girl and earned $5,614 in 2 weeks
He used Claude to create the photo and video material
He started a TikTok for her where she danced; after 5 days, there were already 52,544 new followers on this account
He understood that everyone liked the girl very much and created an account for her on Fanvue
> TikTok for advertising
> Fanvue for earnings
After 2 weeks, 562 people signed up for a paid subscription -> subscription price is $9.99 -> $5,614 profit
AI gives opportunities literally at every step
Keanu Reeves helping the crew move equipment on the set of JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (2023).
Just another reminder of why he’s one of the most beloved people in Hollywood.
During the filming of The Octopus (1937), filmmakers used practical effects instead of CGI, relying on color filters that made red makeup appear invisible until revealed, creating a sudden transformation that likely shocked audiences in 1930s theaters.
In The Beguiled (1971), Clint Eastwood kissed 11-year-old actress Pamelyn Ferdin on the mouth during a scene to get her genuine reaction, which wasn't scripted. Eastwood was 40 at the time and in the rehearsed script he only covered her mouth with his hand.
This is criminal.
Antony Starr almost didn’t audition for ‘THE BOYS’ because he didn’t think he was handsome or big enough unlike Henry Cavill.
“I kept avoiding it until I finally put a tape down, almost out of spite.”
“I went to my trailer, at lunchtime, and got my iPad out and just literally spat an audition out.“
“So I didn’t look at it for a week-and-a-half and then I saw it was a superhero thing, and I thought,
‘They’re not going to pick me anyway, I’m not made for that. Henry Cavill’s 12 feet tall, built like a 12-foot brick s**t house, and he’s wonderful, handsome and charming. I’m not going to get that.’