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What a mess

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This article is a mess!!!!

69.181.128.223 (talk) 04:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is. Gwen Gale (talk) 05:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My brain melted from reading this crap... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.78.146 (talk) 06:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Did someone just take a Japanese translation and put it in Babel? If not, I'm really sad.- Blaine —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.29.124 (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Brainstorm.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Synthajoy

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the novel by D.G. Compton seems quite similar. i found 3 references which refer to the connection, [1], [2] and [3]. I think this should be mentioned in the article.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:07, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sci Fi meets reality

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Back in 2009 I saw the discovery channel and scientist actually built a computer Hat which can read people thoughts and control objects by brainwaves. It still is primitive, but it is basically the same thing. The inventors call the device "The Hat"

Sorry that I cannot find the article about the Hat. Honda built one.

http://www.mycarforum.com/blog/myautoblog/1111/hondas-mind-reading-hat/

Supercool Dude (talk) 09:22, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are now numerous devices which can achieve these functions. I would like to argue that the technology contrived in "Brainstorm" is unprecedented enough that if steps were taken to bring it to reality, that those steps should be noted here in the article. If the Star Trek article can have a paragraph noting that technology depicted in that creative work later became a reality, then by golly, so can Brainstorm. I am referring to this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brainstorm_(1983_film)&oldid=485457642 -- and I fully intend to bring the section on "Real-life applications" back in the near future. It should not have been reverted and the person who reverted it is just being a curmudgeon, not actually doing any useful or valuable work on the article. Gabriel Arthur Petrie (talk) 06:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The link that you provided doesn't appear to be the one you might have intended...it doesn't show any changes to the article nor does it include a Real-life applications section.
I have to wonder whether it was necessary to attack the removing editor and would recommend that you review WP:NPA.
If such a section does not include reliable sources then, provided you re-add it without adding sources, it will be in violation of WP:BURDEN and likely be removed again.
I note that the information at the Star Trek article is reliably-sourced. I will hope that if the presence of such information there is going to be used by you to justify a similar addition here then you will provide equally reliable sourcing. DonIago (talk) 12:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced Material

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Article has been tagged for needing sourcing since '09. Please feel free to re-add this material with appropriate sourcing. Thanks. Doniago (talk) 19:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brainstorm filming location and "futuristic" research building

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From available images online it looks it was shot at "Research Triangle Park" North Carolina. Was that the location? Many people wonder where is that "futuristic" architecture building in real world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.182.85.174 (talk) 23:55, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Holographic tape

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I can't find it anymore, but there was only ONE source describing how the holographic data tape was a real type of data tape around 1980, but the company who made it went under, and it's why the producers were able to obtain so much of the tape for the movie. The tape drives were the actual drive for the tape, too, according to that one lost website. Since it's lost, and I can't refind it, I can't add anything to the movie's article about it. An old computer engineer told me that the small reels of the tape used in the movie held about 1 GB of storage, which was considered nuts at the time. However, that's original research and also can't be added. Other than a conversation, reading a lost website, and watching movie, as a long-time computer scientist, I don't have any experience with the holographic tape, though current 3-D SSD and jumpdrives remind me of what the lost website wrote about how the tape wrote/read the data. The article also said the tapes didn't have slack compared to magnetic data tape of the time, which, through improvements, I think could hold 1 GB of data as well, with slack. My only personal tape experience is with stuff like Ditto and LTO, and old cassettes. Okay, bye. 199.127.116.26 (talk) 23:30, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]