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[HD] Children of Men - Ark of the Arts - "I just don't think about it"

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Cited on HN 4 times, 2017–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN cites it as a film example of chorded input devices and as an analogy for wealthy indifference to suffering.

A scene from Children of Men in which Theo visits Nigel in the Ark of the Arts to get transit papers. It features Nigel's line "I just don't think about it" and a one-handed chorded keyboard.

“I imagine something like this clip from Children of Men could work” (HN, 2017)

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@pault Oct 2017 Cites it
on HN thread After the end of the startup era
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I think the value of the technology hasn't reached a point where it exceeds the inconvenience of using it; namely the bulky headsets and expensive hardware. I agree that it won't be more than a niche technology in the near term future. I guess it all depends on how many more orders of magnitude we can expect to get out of miniaturization before we hit the wall. If it's possible to get a minimum of 4k per eye resolution and the graphics performance of a 2017 high end gaming GPU into a pair of wraparound sunglasses combined with a smartphone, I see it becoming the dominant display technology. The convenience of being able to summon any number of arbitrarily large displays at will is hard to deny, even if you completely disregard any value proposition involving AR and new forms of human computer interaction. I'm sitting in bed with my laptop right now, and if I could choose between reading this on a pair of lightweight glasses or my laptop, I'm not sure what the laptop has to offer. The big issue is touch typing; no (macro) gesture-based virtual keyboard is ever going to be usable for professional workloads. I sometimes wonder if some kind of one- or two-handed finger-chording input could be as efficient as a qwerty keyboard. I would be willing to toss my decades of qwerty experience if I could eventually get something as fast without having to carry around a keyboard. I imagine something like this device from Children of Men: [this video] (1024 "keys" should be plenty, so it's techn
Film scene showing a futuristic chording keyboard
@pault Nov 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Logitech announces a development kit for using keyboards in virtual reality
I keep wondering if chording keyboards could be the answer for VR text input. It would require learning a new input system, but I'm curious if one could eventually become proficient enough to reach average qwerty speeds. I can't remember the name but I remember seeing a google-produced chip that tracked small finger movements, and I imagine something like this clip from Children of Men could work: [this video] I spent a few hours the other day searching for existing chording keyboards and they were all really clunky.
Film clip as an example of chorded input

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