Search Boxes in Defying Gravity
I’ve been enjoying this “Defying Gravity” show. Though it sometimes comes across as little more than “pretty people in space”, it’s still about the human need to explore, and it largely doesn’t insult the audience.
After the first episode, I twittered a joke about how they’re using an internationally-unfriendly date format, but I was willing to let that slide, even though the mission to multiple planets requires help from many many countries, and especially since this takes place in 2052, when we should know better than to display the 9th day of the 28th month.
But then in episode nine (”Eve Ate the Apple”), I saw this:
Media Connected
Check out those search boxes at the top:
Keyword
Phrase
Exact
Three separate search boxes for “Keyword”, “Phrase” and “Exact”. So in 2052, we still won’t have learned modestly-advanced searching techniques. Yikes.
Still, I do like the little Red Cross icon near the lower left. I’m sort of tempted to use that for “Help” the next time it comes around.
