The Future!
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1sickbastard
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I remember having to walk out on the tarmac and climb up a set of portable stairs to get on airplanes and when JFK installed the first jetways so one didn't have to be exposed to the elements to board a flight.
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LifeIsGood3976
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I remember being in 6th grade in 1972 and my teacher telling us there would be no movie theaters, we'd watch movies in our homes. And we could watch any movie we wanted just by pushing buttons.
That's come true, mostly.
One thing about the future they used to say back in those days has NOT come true. The general thinking back then was that automation would become a bigger part of our work lives and this would lead to an increase in leisure time.
Ummmm, no.
That's come true, mostly.
One thing about the future they used to say back in those days has NOT come true. The general thinking back then was that automation would become a bigger part of our work lives and this would lead to an increase in leisure time.
Ummmm, no.
suckonsimon
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OK, totally random and well before even my time:
Humans have been bee keeping for more than 4,000 years yet it was not until 1865 that the "Queen Excluder" was invented. A mesh which divides the hive so that honey can be harvested without destroying most of the colony. An item universally regarded as essential in the honey world but so late in arriving.
[Now, hands up guys and gals if you knew that?
And hands up if you think it is totally geekish and irrelevant to the thread?]
Humans have been bee keeping for more than 4,000 years yet it was not until 1865 that the "Queen Excluder" was invented. A mesh which divides the hive so that honey can be harvested without destroying most of the colony. An item universally regarded as essential in the honey world but so late in arriving.
[Now, hands up guys and gals if you knew that?
And hands up if you think it is totally geekish and irrelevant to the thread?
]
jeninifer
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How about TV's with no remotes. The battle between VH'S and BETA max. Those huge old Digital home video cameras that you had to plug into a unit and carry around the recording tape. Oh and the home gaming console of the future the ATARI. God those graphics were just the best.
Remember the first wired remotes?
My first RC Cars were connected to the damn remote and I had to run along after them.
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jmarx20102012
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I buy a lot of music. I buy vinyl. I buy cds. I buy digital from ITunes and Bandcamp. I believe the Apple Ipod is the single greatest creation for music lovers. I have a 120gb. When it quits I will be devastated as Apple has discontinued production.
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BradBigBrain
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You just have to keep adapting.
I've seen a lot in my lifetime so far and the technology approaching exponential growth.
My first computer? Don't ask. It was ridiculous. Suffice to say it had a 14.4K modem to connect to things like Prodigy and AOL.
I remember and still have a rotary dial telephone. Nobody called because the last four digits of our phone number were 0087 (go to youtube and look up the Louis CK interview on Conan). Busy signals, no call waiting, so voice mail, no caller Id (these were all features).
But...that to me isn't anything really. My grandparents were old when I was born...they were born in the late 1800s and died in the 1970s. They saw the invention of the car, the plane, the radio, the television...
I saw a talk once on technology...the speaker's main point was the 3 biggest things to happen to communication were in order of happening:
1. Human Speech
2. Movable type printing presses which brought books and reading to the masses
3. The internet (which we use for porn and posting selfies and pictures of our dogs and cats)
I've seen a lot in my lifetime so far and the technology approaching exponential growth.
My first computer? Don't ask. It was ridiculous. Suffice to say it had a 14.4K modem to connect to things like Prodigy and AOL.
I remember and still have a rotary dial telephone. Nobody called because the last four digits of our phone number were 0087 (go to youtube and look up the Louis CK interview on Conan). Busy signals, no call waiting, so voice mail, no caller Id (these were all features).
But...that to me isn't anything really. My grandparents were old when I was born...they were born in the late 1800s and died in the 1970s. They saw the invention of the car, the plane, the radio, the television...
I saw a talk once on technology...the speaker's main point was the 3 biggest things to happen to communication were in order of happening:
1. Human Speech
2. Movable type printing presses which brought books and reading to the masses
3. The internet (which we use for porn and posting selfies and pictures of our dogs and cats)
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When I was in fifth grade we learned how to use slide rules to do math calculations. Slide rules were replaced with calculators soon thereafter. In the early seventies, a friend's Dad bought a Bowmar Brain, it was the first pocket calculator. It was very impressive. It cost over $200 and came in a special case.
About that time, in middle school, we one computer for the entire school. It ran off a punched tape. You programmed instructions on a paper tape and then fed that tape back to the computer to to very rudimentary calculations and operations. By college, our programming was done with a deck of cards. Each card represented a line and you would place your deck of cars in a reader that would scan them. An out of place card would screw the entire program up.
Later I had the first Mac to come out. It's RAM was so limited you had to switch floppy discs mid operation to get some programs to run.
I often think about my grandparents who were born in an age of horse transportation and lived to see a moon landing.
About that time, in middle school, we one computer for the entire school. It ran off a punched tape. You programmed instructions on a paper tape and then fed that tape back to the computer to to very rudimentary calculations and operations. By college, our programming was done with a deck of cards. Each card represented a line and you would place your deck of cars in a reader that would scan them. An out of place card would screw the entire program up.
Later I had the first Mac to come out. It's RAM was so limited you had to switch floppy discs mid operation to get some programs to run.
I often think about my grandparents who were born in an age of horse transportation and lived to see a moon landing.
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I'll have you know that I also use the internet to post pictures of my dinner.
Oh yeah...I forgot food pr0n!
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I had cars with wired control units and I used my paper route earnings to buy a Zenith TV with an early wireless remote control. When you pushed the buttons, hammers would strike different tuning forks inside the remote.
Here's a video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGxGpfB671g
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BradBigBrain
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Awww...but I love you so.
It was really good.
What do you have against crabs?
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