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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm saying, it'll be the 2040's and I'll be in my 50's or 60's watching a period piece set in '98, and everybody will have iphones and I'll be getting all steamed. Or watching a movie set in 2012 where someone talks about their cool Motorola RAZR. It will be a real "shut up, Grandpa" moment. The difference between "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones were tiny" and "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones are huge" is only a few years.
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Jerry Cotton posted:The difference between "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones were tiny" and "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones are huge" is only a few years. Literally two years, in 2006 the RAZR in 2008 the iPhone 3G.
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I'm not sure that's true, Nokia 3100 etc were shrinking quickly, and that came out in 2003. It was much cooler to have a slim, small 3100 with a colour screen than a chunky banana sized 6110 or something.
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Retrofuturism is always funny, both when people shot way over the mark ("Millions of people will live on the moon by the year 1990") and when they fell hilariously short ("In 1990 electric postal service will deliver a message across the Atlantic in as little as an hour!")
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Depending on just how crap your mail server is that might still be true. Getting an "i forgot my password" request from EA.com for example can easily take an hour, if it ever arrives.
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Boiled Water posted:Depending on just how crap your mail server is that might still be true. Getting an "i forgot my password" request from EA.com for example can easily take an hour, if it ever arrives. I just deleted 40k deferred e-mails after a compromised web spammed a lot. Some legit e-mails might never arrive.
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SEKCobra posted:I just deleted 40k deferred e-mails after a compromised web spammed a lot. Some legit e-mails might never arrive. 40k, you say? "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only spam."
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Powered Descent posted:40k, you say? "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only spam." My boss was 'not amused' when I told him about it, but hey, what can you do? \/  \/ (I even called SpamTitan support to see if there was any other option)This is what happens when you don't notice/fix a spamming web for a week.
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Yeah, the problem with e-mail is it's "best effort" so there's no guarantee it'll ever arrive. 99.9% of the time it does, but if it doesn't there isn't anything you can do.
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robodex posted:Yeah, the problem with e-mail is it's "best effort" so there's no guarantee it'll ever arrive. 99.9% of the time it does, but if it doesn't there isn't anything you can do. No, the problem with e-mail is that it was designed entirely by academics with no concept of human malice, laziness, or malicious laziness. I was support lead for a major control panel company for five years, and by far and away the worst part of the job was dealing with the email subsystem.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Movies in the future set in pre-2007 will always get the cell phones wrong. I recall the movie Infernal Affairs 2, which chronicles the rise of some Hong Kong cops and gangsters and is set across most of the 1990s in (IIRC) somewhat nonlinear fashion. They neatly used the size of everyone's cell phones to indicate when a scene was set.
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Demolition Man will always be my favorite "future prediction." Not the actual future the movie is set in, but the very beginning (it's not too far off the reality either  )
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I like seeing CRTs used all of the time in "the future" in movies/TV shows.
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Last Chance posted:I like seeing CRTs used all of the time in "the future" in movies/TV shows. Especially when they were a wall of CRTs to make one mega "futuristic" big screen with lots of wasted space. Basically, I'm thinking of the OCP board room.
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Explosionface posted:Especially when they were a wall of CRTs to make one mega "futuristic" big screen with lots of wasted space. Basically, I'm thinking of the OCP board room. Bah, that one actually makes sense though, OCP was a cheap bunch of bastards. The only thing weird about that wall was it had the spike interface that apparently only Robocop was built to use.
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Last Chance posted:I like seeing CRTs used all of the time in "the future" in movies/TV shows. Even worse, I watched an episode of Dirk Gently yesterday and was insanely annoyed that they clearly used lcd screens and then threw a fake CRT filter up on some of them. Completely broke my immersion in an otherwise amazing episode.
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It's 1940 and you need a controller for the cutting-edge radio-controlled drone you're selling to the U.S. Army. Nothing like this has ever existed so you can build anything you like, but you also need to keep the cost down and make sure the controller is easy to use and maintain. So what do you build? Despite selling thousands of drones over decades the company would end up better known for one of their assembly employees... 
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Jerry Cotton posted:The difference between "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones were tiny" and "era when the most expensive and vaunted cell phones are huge" is only a few years. That's why period accuracy will be so hard. Also I believe a lot of these old phones will be thrown away or recycled nearly out of existence in the next 50 years. It will be a classic case of "why should we keep this around, there are millions of ---------" until there suddenly aren't.
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Kwyndig posted:Bah, that one actually makes sense though, OCP was a cheap bunch of bastards. The only thing weird about that wall was it had the spike interface that apparently only Robocop was built to use. Every system has that one weird connector that almost no-one ever uses, or even knows how to use.
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Dick Trauma posted:It's 1940 and you need a controller for the cutting-edge radio-controlled drone you're selling to the U.S. Army. Nothing like this has ever existed so you can build anything you like, but you also need to keep the cost down and make sure the controller is easy to use and maintain. So what do you build? And that worker was Albert Einstein! serious who the gently caress is she
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Johnny Aztec posted:serious who the gently caress is she Marilyn Monroe
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edit: ^^^ not in that picture, she wasn't.Johnny Aztec posted:And that worker was Albert Einstein! Norma Jeane Mortenson Magnus Praeda has a new favorite as of 00:56 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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Magnus Praeda posted:Norma Jeane Mortenson I like what you tried here, but it works better in a pre‐Google universe.
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Platystemon posted:I like what you tried here, but it works better in a pre‐Google universe. or a pre-Elton universe
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Kelp Me! posted:Demolition Man will always be my favorite "future prediction." Not the actual future the movie is set in, but the very beginning (it's not too far off the reality either I commented a while back watching Airplane 2 for the first time in years and it struck me as sort of an accurate vision of the future/present in a lot of ways.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I commented a while back watching Airplane 2 for the first time in years and it struck me as sort of an accurate vision of the future/present in a lot of ways. Why the hell aren't I notified about these things?
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My experience in the OSHA thread tells me that you need to secure that hair, missy!
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Speaking of drones during WWII, here's some footage of the Interstate TDR, a "assault drone" the US Navy was working on from 1942 to 1944. They built about 195 of them (out of a order of 2000) and combat tested them in the South Pacific in 1944 (50 drones were "expended" with no losses to the manned control aircraft), but the program was canceled the same year due to technical issues that showed up during the testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIW-XsFT98k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwS669Ipgwc
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That's why period accuracy will be so hard. Also I believe a lot of these old phones will be thrown away or recycled nearly out of existence in the next 50 years. It will be a classic case of "why should we keep this around, there are millions of ---------" until there suddenly aren't. Maybe it's just a Finnish thing but no-one throws out their old cell phones.
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Johnny Aztec posted:And that worker was Albert Einstein! David Mitchell.
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Jerry Cotton posted:David Mitchell. it was actually Spud Webb
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Jerry Cotton posted:Maybe it's just a Finnish thing but no-one throws out their old cell phones. Makes sense, the Russians will try again at some point and you'll need them for IED detonators.
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I was loading stuff into a warehouse when I discovered something interesting. What's this?  A case of some sort! What's in it? Some kind of ancient vibrator?  Nah, what I've got here is a light pointer.  If you're doing a presentation in 1931-1980, you're going to want one of these bad boys or you'll be stuck using a stick pointer like some goddamn primitive. If you don't focus it right the arrow it projects kinda looks like a dick:  e: for extra obsoleteness, shot with a Samsung Galaxy S4.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:What's in it? Some kind of ancient vibrator? Tumblr of scotch posted:Anything is a sex toy if you're brave enough.
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I'm reading a short story wherein two American soldiers are on a 3-day leave in Paris in 1945 right after the end of the war.quote:“Wow,” Mueller said in the Metro station; he had always been good at figuring things out. “See how this works? You push the button where you are and the one where you want to go, and the whole loving route lights up. You’d have to be an idiot to get lost in this town.” “Yeah.”
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm reading a short story wherein two American soldiers are on a 3-day leave in Paris in 1945 right after the end of the war. It’s a translucent map with lightbulbs behind it, or a solid map studded with small lamps. Press the buttons and the lights along the route light up. I’m sure you’re seen similar displays in places like museums, without the intelligent routing feature. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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So why don't I see those on the subway in NYC? It's obviously obsolete technology but more advanced than the regular maps.
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Sounds like a wonderful way to find a way to a destination that involves multiple trains.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:So why don't I see those on the subway in NYC? It's obviously obsolete technology but more advanced than the regular maps. They exist, but only at common transfer stations due to the cost of each kiosk ($15k each). http://web.mta.info/nyct/OntheGoAds/ Platystemon posted:There are apps for that. Varance has a new favorite as of 06:51 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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There are apps for that.
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