What's most striking to me is how the older films got the future wrong. Mechanical and computer interfaces of their time were gray and clunky, so they imagined

What's most striking to me is how the older films got the future wrong. Mechanical and computer interfaces of their time were gray and clunky, so they imagined future interfaces would be even more alienating (as things got more "high-tech"). Now the "future interfaces" in our movies have sleeker, more beautiful displays.