The otherwise unremarkable 2002 remake of H.G. Wells' Time Machine includes this sequence with an African-American library interface avatar. Set in the year 2030, a time traveler from 1899 attempts to access information from the public library but is thwarted by derision and sarcasm from a judgmental, elitist interface personality. As a depiction of interface design, this scene is nearly unique among movie sci-fi imaginings of future information systems. While affect is generally elided from interface design (both real and imaginary), it is even more rarely positioned as an inhibiting factor in a user's ability to harvest data from the presumed digital repositories that will be operating in the future.