The Technology of MI6

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• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  January 2013 edited January 2013 Posts: 14,584

  An interesting pattern I've pondered myself. Regarding DAD's virtual reality glasses, the invisible car, and TWINE's hologram of Renard- the technology exists today in some form or another, but perhaps not something I'd expect to see in MI6 headquarters within this decade, let alone in 1999/2002. Put simply, DAD's (and to a lesser extent TWINE's) tech got too ahead of itself. Then CR grounded MI6's technology back in reality, which works out when you consider it's set before the Brosnan era. QoS took advantage of current touchscreen technology, and I feel this is as far as they should go until the next latest trend is released for the general public. Regarding the regression of tech in Skyfall, I tend to think that if MI6 hadn't been targeted, we'd see some sort of QoS continuity with the touch screen table and wall-size screens in MI6 headquarters, as opposed to the last minute gathering of less expensive/less technologically advanced equipment for MI6's move to the underground establishment.
• Sandy Somewhere in Europe

  January 2013 Posts: 4,012

  QBranch wrote:

  An interesting pattern I've pondered myself. Regarding DAD's virtual reality glasses, the invisible car, and TWINE's hologram of Renard- the technology exists today in some form or another, but perhaps not something I'd expect to see in MI6 headquarters within this decade, let alone in 1999/2002. Put simply, DAD's (and to a lesser extent TWINE's) tech got too ahead of itself. Then CR grounded MI6's technology back in reality, which works out when you consider it's set before the Brosnan era. QoS took advantage of current touchscreen technology, and I feel this is as far as they should go until the next latest trend is released for the general public. Regarding the regression of tech in Skyfall, I tend to think that if MI6 hadn't been targeted, we'd see some sort of QoS continuity with the touch screen table and wall-size screens in MI6 headquarters, as opposed to the last minute gathering of less expensive/less technologically advanced equipment for MI6's move to the underground establishment.

  
  It is exactly how I feel about this issue. And considering those were backup/emergency equipments, they were rather good I might say.
• LicenceRevoked

  January 2013 edited January 2013 Posts: 204

  That's what I thought aswell until I watched Skyfall again yesterday and noticed that the interface which M uses on her laptop and when she's writing Bond's obituary is the same throughout the movie (i.e even before Silva attacked MI6) which suggests that the QoS interface had been made redundant.
  
  Also regarding the chronology of Casino Royale, I was under the impression that when it rebooted, it rebooted at the time period it was made and thus the technology were not to be considered predecessors to what Brosnan used in his movies, for example the Ericsson flip phone he used to control the car would not be as advanced as say even the (by today's standards) K800i and M600 Sony Ericssons from Casino Royale.
  
  I too believe that the DaD and TWiNE technologies were somewhat scifi-ish and I agree with your point re the QoS interface because it's pretty much already possible, albeit looks much cooler on the screen. I liked the concept behind it being designed to allow agents in the field and at HQ to sift through alot of data visually and quickly - in comparison to Skyfall's more dense terminal-looking operating OS.
  
  
• 0013

  January 2013 Posts: 1,817

  Well, technology wise, Q put it very simple when admiting they don't do explosive pens anymore.
• LicenceRevoked

  January 2013 Posts: 204

  0013 wrote:

  Well, technology wise, Q put it very simple when admiting they don't do explosive pens anymore.

  
  Very true, but gadget / technology wise I think the palm print coded gun was a great idea and should really be standard issue. But for forthcoming movies do you think we should see gadgets he had before again like the laser watch or the car remote control (which was in both TND and DAD) or something new and clever rather that outlandish?
• Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator

  January 2013 Posts: 40,976

  I enjoy multi-use gadgets, as opposed to gadgets that stand out in a situation and make a forthcoming event easily predictable, such as the palm-reading PPK. Don't get me wrong, I loved the idea, but it's just a "Oh, someone is going to take his gun at some point, try to use it against him, and fail."
• MrBrown

  January 2013 Posts: 202

  There is no continuity.
• 0013

  January 2013 Posts: 1,817

  LicenceRevoked wrote:

  0013 wrote:

  Well, technology wise, Q put it very simple when admiting they don't do explosive pens anymore.

  
  Very true, but gadget / technology wise I think the palm print coded gun was a great idea and should really be standard issue. But for forthcoming movies do you think we should see gadgets he had before again like the laser watch or the car remote control (which was in both TND and DAD) or something new and clever rather that outlandish?

  
  I'm not an expert in technology but as I see it the new gadgets in many cases perform the same functions of older ones but from a smaller size. For example, computers have more memory and capacity and now are of a little book size and not a whole room. The same of other devices.
  So we can have an older idea in a new format.
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  January 2013 Posts: 14,584

  Especially with the talk of holographic hard drives in future computers.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage