With some of them, it's obvious what films they came from—Brazil, Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element—while others have sources far more elusive. But taking them all in, you can get a sense of what production designers thought tomorrow's computers would look like, as well as the limitations they had in creating them.
So how many of these interfaces do you recognize?
Nothing But Trouble, 1991
A Scanner Darkly, 2006
Strangeland, 1998
Sydney White, 2007
Avalon, 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986
Blues Brothers, 1980
Clueless, 1995
TRON: Legacy, 2010
TRON, 1982
Grosse Pointe Blank, 1997
Cube Zero, 2004
Timecop, 1994
Old Dogs, 2009
Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
G.I. Jane, 1997
Disclosure, 1994
Batman Forever, 1995
Machete, 2010
The Art of War, 2000
Freejack, 1992
Bicentennial Man, 1999
Going the Distance, 2010
The A-Team, 2010
Undercover Brother, 2002
The Bounty Hunter, 2010
The Bourne Identity, 2002
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010
Source Code, 2011
Stranded, 2001
Oceans 11, 2001
Alien, 1979
Wild Hogs, 2007
Code 46, 2003
THX 1138, 1971
Sunshine, 2007
Dune, 1984
Moon, 2009
Short Circuit, 1986
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, 2002
Julie & Julia, 2009
Dark Star, 1974
Single White Female, 1992
Batman Returns, 1992
Fortress, 1993
I, Robot, 2004
2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003
Judge Dredd, 1995
Hardwired, 2009
