Torchwood was a while ago
Feb. 14th, 2024 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI am listening to the Torchwood audio book 'Hidden'. Audio book is harder to listen to than audio adventure, I keep getting distracted by my own brain and having to back up and replay a bit.
I noticed it keeps explaining the tech as it goes along. Not just saying the shiny place has high security and gave them visitor passes, saying about the fingerprint scanners and the 'webcam' they use to get photos to put on the visitor passes. Explaining exactly which databases they're tapping into and mentioning they're using a touchscreen. Explaining you can track a cell phone like a lowjack before they do it. And did you know CCTV cameras are everywhere?
And I vaguely recall all that being the sharpest of cutting edge stuff at the time, but now it's all seeming terribly dated. So when written it would all signify Shiny, and now it's as out of date as the fashions, and at some not very distant future point it'll be useful explaining all over again not for what they can do but for what they cannot.
Which I've stopped the adventure to type about because audiobooks are harder to listen to and it was getting distracting.
:eyeroll:
I've had a good day though, did Cleaner Day and am getting laundry done while I listen, so, winning.
:-)
I noticed it keeps explaining the tech as it goes along. Not just saying the shiny place has high security and gave them visitor passes, saying about the fingerprint scanners and the 'webcam' they use to get photos to put on the visitor passes. Explaining exactly which databases they're tapping into and mentioning they're using a touchscreen. Explaining you can track a cell phone like a lowjack before they do it. And did you know CCTV cameras are everywhere?
And I vaguely recall all that being the sharpest of cutting edge stuff at the time, but now it's all seeming terribly dated. So when written it would all signify Shiny, and now it's as out of date as the fashions, and at some not very distant future point it'll be useful explaining all over again not for what they can do but for what they cannot.
Which I've stopped the adventure to type about because audiobooks are harder to listen to and it was getting distracting.
:eyeroll:
I've had a good day though, did Cleaner Day and am getting laundry done while I listen, so, winning.
:-)