Editor's Pick: Tech on TV: A Little Realism Goes a Long Way

Tech on TV: A Little Realism Goes a Long Way

Peter Suciu Oct 27, 2016 5:00 AM PT
	Watching TV shows often requires the suspension of disbelief -- that is, a willingness to press pause on one's critical faculties in order to believe the unbelievable. Realism often must be secondary to story, in other words. This very often is necessary when computers are used to advance plot lines, when programmers and hackers alike can produce tremendous results in seconds. [More...]

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