One theory I have on why customers think you can just grab it "out of the cloud" and make it with a few button clicks: phony baloney garbage of how computers are portrayed in movies and TV shows.
For instance:
Let's Enhance
This is a great video showing a collection of how Hollywood gets it so stupidly wrong just about all the time. I really loved how they included the clip from
Enemy of the State, showing government hackers cracking into a retail store's surveillance camera feed and
rotating the video in 3D space. I laughed out loud when I saw that in the theater. What utter B.S!
I really would like to give those producers, directors and screen writers such a smack when they insert such cliches into a show. The average person doesn't understand that stuff is wrong, stupid and just plain impossible. I feel sorry for the graphics people who work on those movies and TV shows. They just have to be grumbling to themselves when creating the material for those scenes. An aside: a friend of mine who is a captain in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol laughs at what all the cop shows get wrong in terms of police procedure, like ordering up DNA tests for anything and getting the results pronto.
Another scene I find funny: in
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Scotty sits down in front of a classic Macintosh, rapidly types some gibberish into the keyboard and invents "transparent aluminum." He did this after thinking the mouse was a microphone. Never mind his lack of experience with the Mac OS and an application that could alter molecular chemistry formulas.
