Tron: 1982

•  I am 7 years old.
•  The dawn of personal computing. For the first time, individuals have computers.
•  Computing is nerdy, specialised. Arcade Computer Games are new and cool.
•  Life inside the computer is depicted as banal, office-like, yearning to be real.
•  Clumsy special effects pretend to be too-expensive computer effects.
•  Completely unique film stock is created to make the film effects possible.
•  Huge solid sets are painstakingly built and painted to look surreal.
•  Real actors are clad in suits to make them look unnatural.

Legacy: 2010

• I am 35 years old.
• The internet is an inextricable part of life for most of the world.
• Computing is everywhere, in everything. It’s uncool to not be a nerd.
• Life inside the computer is depicted as impossibly cool. It mocks the real world.
• Computer effects are trivial and cheap.
• No physical film is ever exposed.
• Hardly any physical sets are even built.
• The central villain is a flawless digital emulation of Jeff Bridges of 1982.

This is what it must feel like to live through epochal change.