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| rdfs:comment | - You see this all the time; robots (usually the Robot Buddy) or cyborgs using controls just like people do. That is; hitting buttons. This leaves out the more interesting and probably easier path of forming some kind of short-range connection via cable or radio and just thinking at the computer in question. After all, Everything Is Online, right? Examples of Tinman Typist include:
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| abstract | - You see this all the time; robots (usually the Robot Buddy) or cyborgs using controls just like people do. That is; hitting buttons. This leaves out the more interesting and probably easier path of forming some kind of short-range connection via cable or radio and just thinking at the computer in question. After all, Everything Is Online, right? Possibly the writer is trying to hold back on clues that the character is a robot or perhaps the character is meant to be hiding the fact from other characters. After all how many people do you see with cables or wires sticking out of their ear? Besides it's harder to hack into human digits than a radio connection (unless you have a saw). In visual media, it's most likely a case of Rule of Perception and the desire to have something actually happen on-screen. As thrilling as it might be to watch a robot send a wireless signal to a nearby computer, it wouldn't be very clear what it was accomplishing by doing so. Examples of Tinman Typist include:
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