I just saw the original 'Tron' and all I have to say is...

[Danger Mouse]

'uhhhh what?'

[MrsBrady]

1. If you had seen it first run...

And played the original game...

The visuals in the theatre at the time were stunning.

I still like that movie. Saw it the other day on tv.
Little screen does not do that movie justice.

[Bucky]

2. I never got the plausibility of downloading a human being into a computer

Wouldn't their body outside the computer just die? I like far fetch science fiction, but I need it to be plausible far fetched science fiction.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Think of it with star trek teleport tech.

First you build a computer that has all the equations for the natural world. Then any assembled group of atoms in that world would act like they would in the 'real' world.


Then you get a momentary scan of a person, knowing the state of every atom, and its electrical charge. And you simulate it in the computer. After some time in the computer, you then read the data of every atom and every electrical charge, and beam that back into real world by atomic assembler like a replicator that translates the state in the computer back to real state.


Where it gets weird would be you are actually making a copy, and that copy can have experiences in the computer, then beamed back out and relate them to the real world, but there would then be two of the same people.

There was a great Outer Limits episode about balancing the equation on that phenomenon. It answers your question on the extra copy outside the system after transition.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/69830/outer-limits-think-like-a-dinosaur



I have a few short stories thought up on that topic. For instance, if such a world could be created, then all resource issues and population issues would be solved. But would people think it is a real existence?


It is a very common metaphor for existence, and can allow for easier thought on the supernatural, but it has failings by making the supernatural the same as the human experiance.

[Duer 157099]

7. I had the exact opposite reaction. It fired my imagination

Just goes to show ya

[Frank Cannon]

3. You had to be there in 1982

The story was kind of meh, but the visuals were state-of-the-art and mind-blowing.

And the arcade game that came out concurrently is still one of my favorite arcade games of all time.

[Quantess]

4. Exactly. It's similar to everyone being amazed at Pong.

Oh boy! Technology these days!

[targetpractice]

6. I saw an HD remaster of Tron on HDNet recently...

I hadn't heard anything about it before I stumbled upon it... The re-rendered graphics were stunning, IMHO.