Shades Of The Internet

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Z.P.G.

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Camelot_2000 — 12 years ago(December 26, 2013 10:12 PM)

I haven't seen this movie in years and years, but the one memory to stick out are the direct connections households have to businesses etc. through TV screens. I recall the scene where Carol is shopping for a Christmas tree from home and is shown a variety to choose from by the salesperson she's dealing with. That futuristic set up is so similar to today's internet.

The more I study it, the greater the puzzle becomes.
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me-1523 — 11 years ago(January 24, 2015 03:27 AM)

Yes, it's almost like she's shopping. From home. Through some sort of Home Shopping Network. Or something.
No one could have seen that coming way back in 1971.

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Woodyanders — 3 years ago(January 17, 2023 01:36 PM)

Yeah, buying stuff off of TV in this movie was indeed an uncannily accurate prediction of the Home Shopping Network. The scene with Oliver Reed researching premature child births on a computer was likewise an equally accurate prediction of people looking up info on stuff on the internet. As far as 1970's future shock sci-fi movies are concerned, this one gets more stuff right than most other entries in the genre.
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