“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by ronilan on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:04PM (#13248506)

> although for a number of years, many digital TVs would display blue for missing input

I'm sure you are aware that "the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" is not blue - right?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZAMjpjYfQ

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by RandomOpinion on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:14PM (#13248551)

Given that he spent the entire paragraph talking about how younger people wouldn't know what that passage refers to, presumably yes, he does.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by lobster_johnson on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:12PM (#13248547)

Of course. My point was that for a brief period of time, you could give Gibson the benefit of an accidental retcon; "ah, so the sky was a dark shade of blue, that works". As opposed to "uh, NO INPUT?".

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