Pretty In Pink was released on February 28, 1986. The John Hughes film about high school and teen angst included one of the first film-based hints of the technological future that was at our doorstep. Specifically, Andrew McCarthy’s character (Blane) flirted with Molly Ringwald’s Andie on library computers, with the end result one of Blane transmitting a picture of himself from his terminal to hers.
In 2024 it would be viewed as primitive, but in 1986 it was a look ahead. Which is the point, or should be. Specifically, tomorrow will be shaped by intrepid investment today.
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