Actually, the "zoom and enhance" thing isn't necessarily quite as wrong as he suggests.[1]
True, this doesn't exactly generate new information, but it generates new pseudo-information that can look awfully convincing, and in many cases is actually correct. See HN discussion here:[2]
Finally, the author omits the number one silly thing that people (well, people in Hollywood at least) believe about computers: that they go "beep beep beep" with every bloody keystroke. I swear I want to hurl things at the screen every time I see that....
True, this doesn't exactly generate new information, but it generates new pseudo-information that can look awfully convincing, and in many cases is actually correct. See HN discussion here:[2]
Finally, the author omits the number one silly thing that people (well, people in Hollywood at least) believe about computers: that they go "beep beep beep" with every bloody keystroke. I swear I want to hurl things at the screen every time I see that....
1: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241266