"The original TRON, in which Jeff Bridges’ hacker Kevin Flynn is sucked into a computer game of his own devising, was significant more for what it attempted than what it achieved. Created in the pre-dawn of computer graphics, it pointed to a rapidly approaching world where, to use TRON lingo, “the digital frontier would shape the human condition.” As dumb as the tech-heavy script was, and as primitive as the graphics were (today they look like an animated black light painting), the picture was undeniably savvy about the future. It was almost there and ahead of most of the rest of us: TRON came out two years before the Macintosh computer debuted and about a dozen years before the Internet went public."
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Peter Howell “Messing with your TRON thing, man”, Toronto Star, (Dec. 16, 2010)
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