Johnny Cabs always annoyed me. Why do you need an animatronic driver taking up valuable seating space? Why not just have a voice in the dash?
Peering into the future always has the strange cruft of taking current business models and behaviour forward with it. I know it's only movies, but they are a way people look into the future.
It's like Dick Tracy. Somehow people could believe talking into a two-way wristwatch was somehow believable. If he had a small rectangular 'phone' in his pocket to talk to, that would have been ridiculous, right?
Peering into the future always has the strange cruft of taking current business models and behaviour forward with it. I know it's only movies, but they are a way people look into the future.
It's like Dick Tracy. Somehow people could believe talking into a two-way wristwatch was somehow believable. If he had a small rectangular 'phone' in his pocket to talk to, that would have been ridiculous, right?