Tech docs in a recent movie

[Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

I recently saw the movie Passengers, which is about space travel in the 
future. I enjoyed the movie but it was also remarkable because technical 
documentation figured heavily in the plot. Many scenes involved someone 
grabbing the user manuals for one piece of equipment or another, and 
then following the docs to accomplish something (or not!). Several other 
scenes involved machines talking to the person (with a talking 3D face 
sometimes), telling the person what was happening, how to use the space 
suit, or whatever it was.

So hopefully we'll have work even far into the future! Unless it was all 
automated.

Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
http://markgiffin.com/
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