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Click for full imageMisterBOB’s Art Direction: Imagine if you could reach out and touch a bald lady face on your pc screen. Draw that!
Published 1984
(Average: 7.21 out of 10)
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Imagine if you could reach out and touch a bald lady face on your pc screen. Draw that!
Published 1984
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October 14th, 2011 at 9:37 am
“We will always be together – however faaar it seeems!” No, wait, I can’t imagine anyone ever using their computer for that, it’s sheer science fiction.
October 14th, 2011 at 10:07 am
When the microwave goes ‘ping!’ it means your severed human head will be cooked right through. Enjoy!
October 14th, 2011 at 10:46 am
Ah if only he had waited 15 years when women will be your ‘best friend’ for money on computers.
Would have saved him a lot of coding!
October 14th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
If you could program yourself Sinead O’Connor and a clip-art heart, would you?
October 14th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I’d program her some hair!
October 14th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Alternate blurb:
If you were afraid to reach out and touch real people… would you buy this book?
October 14th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I don’t think he’s touching a lady-face. She seems to have her hand up to the screen also, so he’s really touching her lady-finger. =D
October 14th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I just wasn’t impressed by the “Tron” reboot.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Published one year before the “Weird Science” movie. Kelly Lebrock w/o hair?
October 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Reminds me of Lt. Ilia, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Played by Persis Khambatta.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
No! Don’t do it! On the Internet every woman is really just a dude!
October 14th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Whoever she is, she’s wearing those plastic lips that came out of a Xmas cracker.
I think this cover is actually showing us the birth of the iPad: the very day when the late Steve Jobs reached out and touched his green-screened Amstrad PCW and said “I can do better than Alan Sugar. Just watch me.”
October 15th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Someone paid £3 for a second-hand copy of this book?
October 15th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
“If you could program yourself a best friend… would you?”
– In your electric dreams, buster!
October 18th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
“If you could program yourself Sinead O’Connor and a clip-art heart, would you?”
Made me chuckle….and nice follow-up @Tom Noir.
March 18th, 2014 at 7:59 pm
If you could program yourself a best friend… should you get out more?
March 25th, 2014 at 12:51 pm
If I can touch her with my finger then…
…logically..
……I’m going to need a new screen soon…
March 25th, 2014 at 12:57 pm
What is that anyway? A Commodore 64? How many cassettes would she fill? There’d be more tapes than the entire Harry Secombe collection.
August 14th, 2014 at 2:38 am
This is why I quit eharmony.
January 16th, 2017 at 7:45 pm
In answer to the question: no, I would not, in case she ended up like this.
February 5th, 2021 at 8:20 am
The 1980s were cute, so sure that with the might of their floppy disks and FORTRAN programs, artificial intelligence was right around the corner!
February 5th, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Random 80’s bitching – ‘The Soul Of A New Machine’ by Tracy Kidder still hasn’t been made into a movie/mini series.
February 5th, 2021 at 12:34 pm
You dare to complain about the entertainment industry, they kick you in the balls. Hard. Multiple times. With steel toed boots. Kicks delivered by The Mountain Who Rides. With a running start. Downhill.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/mattel-uno-whac-a-mole-film-tv-projects
February 5th, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Serious case of bighanditis on the programmer…
February 5th, 2021 at 1:13 pm
Swipe left, dude
February 5th, 2021 at 1:41 pm
She seems high-maintenance.
February 5th, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Ironically, in 2021 this book seems timely indeed.
“If your smartphone was your closest friend in lockdown… would you sleep with it? YOU ALREADY DO!”
February 5th, 2021 at 6:00 pm
It’s either funny or creepy to realize he probably has no pants on.
February 5th, 2021 at 10:02 pm
@B. Chictlitz: and wearing a bra on his head.
February 5th, 2021 at 11:12 pm
@Bruce: I worked in a bleeding-edge AI lab in the mid-80s and they said “Real AI is coming in 10 years… just like it was 10 years ago… and just like it will be 10 years from now…”
They were working on specific implementations to help humans automate drudgery, and that’s what we’ve mostly got now.
@BC: So this is a rare shot of him with both (big) hands visible?
Today, it looks more like he’s having a Zoom meeting with a woman who should have picked a different color background. But he’s still probably not wearing pants.
That font is so terrible I am unsurprised by the publisher. I bet the title is shiny and embossed too.
February 6th, 2021 at 5:14 pm
1984, the year of the first waifu.
@THX that’s a technique called reverse foreshortening.
February 7th, 2021 at 1:37 am
@fred @22: And here’s a properly 1980s cover for that. https://blog.zog.org/images/Soul-of-a-New-Machine.jpg
@GSS ex-noob: well, the majority of professionals probably haven’t been thinking true AI was arriving “soon-ish” since the start of the 1970s, but I’m talking public perception, and the gap between what 1980s drama and SF (whether in book, TV, comic, or movie form) was suggesting was imminent and the actual technological state of the art is kinda hilarious in retrospect.
February 7th, 2021 at 4:08 am
Being in the know, I found it hilarious at the time.
We were running the stuff on MAINFRAMES, back before Al Gore invented the internet. (But seriously — before The Great Renaming of Usenet groups, today’s domain structure, etc.)
But as everyone I knew well at the time had some real-world computer experience, or even their own giant beige box with BSOD’s, we laughed.
The exaggeration continues… even though everyone’s got a computer in their pocket now and can’t get Google or Siri to figure out exactly what they’re looking for — and certainly not being an AI babe or evil digitized genius.
I did see a recent music video in which a Weird Science/Electric Dreams kind of thing happens, but it was very retro 80s and proud of it.
*search search clickity click, no dammit, search search*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWUGAcOIfE