I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

  • @Nibodhika
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    22 hours ago

    It’s from the “I, Robot” movie, but would fit perfectly well in Futurama hahaha

    • @solrize
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      2 hours ago

      Heinlein’s “The Rolling Stones” had a similar description.