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Flat Earth? (continued)
We next saw the usual vista of Gutenberg's printing press and the
Renaissance, where still more evidence of fresh costumes deepened how much this
refurbishment was impressing me.
Even the colors are
different (above). The old view (below).
Around a sharp corner, the newspaper machinery has slight changes in detail
(the operator reads a newspaper by holding it differently, and the newsboy has
been moved away from our vehicles, and now faces away from us).
Extra extra! Read all about
it!
The next major change appears to be in the radio booth on the left.
Previously, a male and female performer were in here, but now, a single
announcer works inside the booth. And there's a new tribute in here! The
microphone used to refer to an invented radio station, but now sports the
letters "WDI", one of those famous references to Walt Disney Imagineering.
Do you see the WDI (above)? It used to be WDP, for Walt
Disney Productions (below).
(Think they used a strip of black tape?) You'll see the missing lady pop up
later in a new job.
At this point, things begin to change in major ways. Gone is the family
living room on the left side, featuring 80s furniture and a large number of TV
screens, as though families watched that many monitors simultaneously.
Now, as Dench transitions us from radio to TV, she notes that the whole world
came together and watched as mankind landed on the moon. Accordingly, it's a
1969 world depicted here, with only one TV, and it's showing the moon landing.
Blast to the past.
Such feats of technological prowess required huge computers, Dench says, so
we next pass through the middle of a large computer room, presumably NASA's Mission
Control. It's a brand new set that replaces the '90s-era boy talking by computer
to someone else across the world.
The old set (above). A new set
(below)!
Remember our missing radio performer? She's
got a new gig as a stylish rocket scientist.
Dench then transitions us from computers the size of garages to an actual
garage a decade later, for the birth of the PC in Steve Wozniak's garage. He is
facing away from us, but the inference is unmistakable.
Hello, Woz!
This scene begins
with an exterior view of the garage, complete with a real Chevy Nova just
outside. I wonder how they got this car up here? I'd bring you more pictures of
Wozniak, but this scene is very dimly lit, perhaps just to stymie folks with
cameras! (OK, no, probably that's not the real reason). The garage takes up the space formerly occupied by the other half of the
world-wide communication, the Japanese house and the mirror ball.
Intercontinental
communication.
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