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Transparent Tech
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Your work takes place 20 Minutes into the Future, and you want to make sure your audience knows it. How do you communicate this without explicitly saying so? Simple: Show someone using technology that is similar to something we have today, but transparent. Usually, this will be a computer screen or a personal electronic device similar to a tablet or smartphone. From a cinematography standpoint, Transparent Tech is great because you can more easily show what the person sees on the screen and their reaction to it simultaneously, and because, well, it looks cool. However, in real life, they can be impractical due to insufficient contrast between the display and what's behind it. Also, it may not be desirable for people on the other side of the screen to be able to see what's being displayed. To put the work a little further into the future, writers may use the Holographic Terminal or Force-Field Door subtropes. Overlaps with Unusual User Interface. Compare Everything Is an iPod in the Future, where the future setting is communicated by making things look like they were designed by Apple. More likely to be found on the shiny end of the Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty (though they can exist in gritty settings), and where the Ascetic Aesthetic is present. Almost always a display of some kind, but anything where its transparency demonstrates that it's higher tech than what was available in the real world at the time would count. Despite this trope typically being used to show the work takes place in the future, the technology for transparent displays exists today. |
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The Expanse: People have transparent mobile devices. The showrunners refer to them as "hand terminals," in that rather than being powerful mobile computers themselves, they are relatively dumb interfaces to more powerful devices nearby. | |
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Parks and Recreation: Ended season six with a three year-time jump. When a seventh season was approved, the new time skip was shown partially by Gryzzl's new technology which included transparent tech. | |
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RWBY: Everyone has collapsible, smartphone-like devices called "scrolls" which have transparent screens. In addition to typical smartphone functions, during combat scrolls also display the strength of the user's aura, as well as those of their teammates. They can be used to call one's weapon locker, and on one occasion are even seen serving as game controllers. | |
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Second Chance (2016): Transparent tech is used to emphasize how the protagonist's future environment after being reborn is different from what he's used to. (Note that his home has a CRT television.) | |
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Star Trek (2009): A transparent screen is present in the transporter room. Notably, it's directly above another, more traditional console, with no obvious reason why the two different types of displays are used. | |
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Minority Report: John Anderton's use of a large transparent screen with gesture controls is possibly the Trope Codifier. | |
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Resident Evil 6: Characters' personal electronics are transparent. The game largely takes place in 2013, one year after its release. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Transparent tech is pervasive at S.H.I.E.L.D. Particularly notable in The Avengers (2012), when Tony Stark and Bruce Banner have a conversation through one. | |
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Altered Carbon: The series uses transparent screens to show that it takes place in the 24th century. | |
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Mass Effect 3 introduces the Omni-Blade, a transparent silicon-carbide blade flash-forged by a character's Omni-Tool and suspended in a mass effect field near their arm. It's actually surrounded by a hologram to make it easier to see. | |
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Mass Effect: Giant see-through glass screens appear to be used just as often as Holographic Terminals in setting. Mass Effect 3 introduces the Omni-Blade, a transparent silicon-carbide blade flash-forged by a character's Omni-Tool and suspended in a mass effect field near their arm. It's actually surrounded by a hologram to make it easier to see. |
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Avatar: Transparent screens are seen in the avatar labs where Jake Sully's body is usually found, which is the most high-tech room in the film. | |
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Star Trek: For much of the franchise's history, transparent displays weren't really used at all, although the occasional Holographic Terminal would show up. The most common transparent technology you'd see is the Force-Field Door, especially in the brig. Discovery had transparent displays on the bridge, along with regular displays. Oddly, they are clearly set in locations where contrast would be a problem. | |
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Black Mirror: Some episodes set in near-future dystopias make use of transparent screens to demonstrate that it's the future, but one we're not that far away from. | |
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Widdershins: When Alexa exploits a Place Beyond Time to send a video message to her 2013-era phone from 2032, her new phone is a piece of folding glass, matching what's seen of that era's aesthetic. | |
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Odd Squad: Played with. It's not entirely clear whether the show takes place in the future or not, with the Odd Squad Agent's Handbook only suggesting it takes place sometime in the 2010s. However, the titular organization is very futuristic when it comes to its headquarters' designs as well as its gadgetry, some of which surpass the inventions of Real Life, with Orpita claiming it is "at the leading edge of technology" in "Welcome to Odd Squad". The episode "Happily Ever Odd" in particular has Otis attempting to activate his smartwatch for help solving an equation, only for Oona to stop him by telling him that she doesn't want any of "that old-fashioned stuff in here" and project a transparent computer screen by shooting a beam into the air. Once the equation is solved, she blows on the screen, causing it to disappear. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Unlike the typical Force-Field Door you see in Star Trek, the cells in the brig are secured with what looks like giant glass panes, but with a special port on them that can be adjusted from the outside to allow objects to be passed through. | |
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The Cape: Orwell has a transparent screen in her command center, showing how high-tech she is. It helps she's played by Summer Glau. | |
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Extinct: Characters are shown using transparent tablets just before the alien invasion. Notably, this is the only future tech shown in use by civilians; other tech is only used by people who are in or working with the FBI or military. | |
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