Surfing The Universe With Dashboards

Will Wellman

INT. SPACESHIP – DAY (OR NIGHT IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE SPACE)

A lone captain’s chair in the center of the room.

FLASHING LIGHTS glowing from space-age computer systems.

BUTTONS and NOBS glint in the cool blue light from above.

TILT UP to: THE VASTNESS OF EMPTY SPACE through the DASHBOARD GLASS.

SPACE OFFICER (V.O.)

I’ll never get used to this view…

Numerous science fiction films begin just like this, and I am fully invested every single time. I love sci-fi. I love space adventures.

The things I really gravitate to in these films are the aesthetics. The colors (or lack thereof), the random beeping, the sound of an airlock closing. I just can’t get enough. The atmosphere is what really draws me into the world (or the absence of a world, as it may be).

I would love to be a pilot on a ship exploring the universe. Being the first to see parts of the universe that no one has ever seen, all the while, having the instruments and controls of the ship at my fingertips.

This is probably why I love the Dashboards feature in Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT so much. I get to decide what I’m looking at, which direction I’m going to go in. And with the Dashboard builder, I can organize my controls and instruments the way I want.

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Christina Imbriani

@Will Wellman, love this! Space adventures with Dashboards, sign me up ?‍? !