These kinds of GUIs bother me so much. While they're bedazzling to look at, say in a sci-fi movie, they are horrendously designed in terms of functionality, user experience and ability to convey clearly/concisely with the least amount of ambiguity.
It bothers me that people are drawn to it like flies and you see this type of thing everywhere in "Futuristic" projections of our life.
They're objectively worse, yet they look cool and the general public values "Coolness" over GUI's ability to meet its core purpose - that is to leverage human vision's bandwidth to convey information rapidly, concisely and without ambiguity. That is the whole point of a GUI.
Disagree. The UI is nearly identical to our modern UIs, from an information and functionality point of view. The sole difference in this case appears to be style. Fonts and colors, mostly.
Your critique would be true when leveled at the font choice, though.
Here are some references to how NASA designs their GUI's for mission critical systems and dashboards:
https://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/awards_pubs/publications....
Are there examples of NASA dashboards?