You have one dramatic, spectacular disaster that is forever seared into the public consciousness and they never let you forget it... |
Here, watch these crashing waves instead of thinking about how you're hurtling unsupported through the sky at hundred of miles per hour. |
The ludicrously named Maverick Project "was born from trying to bring tomorrow's technology into tomorrow's plane" gushes Lee Clark, the company's senior VP for strategy and, one presumes, awkward phrasing.
"One of the elements that is most critical for Rosen is the integration of technology seamlessly, that it's almost invisible technology."
-Lee Clark, on how invisible
the cabin-spanning OLED
wall panel displays will be
Yeah, ok, but why? Well, the CNN article points to structural advantages and I guess that makes sense. The tiny windows on planes essentially being weak points in the fuselage, but I'm just making that up. I'm not an engineer. What I am, however, is cynical and suspicious of any company whose website talks more about innovation and "stakeholders" than it does telling us what they actually do.
Wouldn't translucent displays hovering mid-air be, like, super-hard to read? |
Interesting word choice given how well trickle down anything has worked out. |
"It completely fits into business, first class--and I think some of those technologies can even trickle down to the coach environment.
-Lee Clark, sounding like quite the dick
But whatever. As stakeholder-enticing as things like holograms and OLED walls are, I'd personally be thrilled if someone would come up with something truly innovative: like tranquilizer darts so the cabin crew could knock out anti-maskers who loose their shit. Or legroom. That would be great.
Seriously, this is a problem. Can't someone shift some paradigms or re-brand some mindshares and innovate us up some legroom? |
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