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Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:11 pm to 337Tiger19
I didn't think that The Learning Channel would ever feature a trashy "pageant" family whose matriarch resembled Jabba the Hut.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:12 pm to TigerinATL
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I think I'm relatively pleased with the technological advances. Where I am a bit disappointed is the level of space technology. Growing up with so much science fiction built around outer space, I just thought more advances would have happened by now.
I agree with this. If we can somehow put a man on Mars and get hoverboards inside of 10 years, then I'll consider us right on track as a species.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:15 pm to 337Tiger19
im a bit out of this thread's target demographic, but i thought we were promised flying cars by now. it kinda chaps my arse airplanes havent really changed much in 40 years
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:15 pm to 337Tiger19
Was pretty damned sure we'd have a Moon colony and a manned trip to Mars by now.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:17 pm to 337Tiger19
I had a nintendo growing up, and I thought ten years from them you wouldn't need a controller and you could play against a hologram.
I was wrong
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:18 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Green Chili Tiger
Oh, I get it! It was supposed to be funny when you said nb4 after the thing already happened, right? Right?!
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:21 pm to BIGDAB
quote:Kinect and Oculus Rift are pretty close though, eh?
I had a nintendo growing up, and I thought ten years from them you wouldn't need a controller and you could play against a hologram.
I was wrong
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:29 pm to 337Tiger19
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What did you think the future would be like?
Be 44 in June...
Um, I thought transportation would be more "futuristic" than what it currently is. Be it car design, or road surface or propulsion, etc...but much more along the lines of what you'd have seen portrayed as "The Future" in some 1970's movie. I'd have been thinking more along the lines of what we saw in Minority Report.
I would have bet money on far more extensive space exploration, at least it terms of manned flight.
Of course, there are tons of tiny things which we now take for granted that make the day a bunch easier that I never saw coming or didn't fully appreciate when they first hit. Simply stuff like being able to scan a card at the gas pump instead of having to walk your happy arse into a gas station and stand in line with everyone buying other shite to tell the guy behind the counter which pump you were one, etc. Or having a person at a store register scan bar-codes instead of having to find price tags and manually punch that in.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:47 pm to 337Tiger19
Cell phone addiction - 20 years ago, I truly never saw this coming:
.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 12:53 pm to Shexter
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Cell phone addiction - 20 years ago, I truly never saw this coming:
How old are you? Because 20 years ago kids did the same thing with Gameboys at recess.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:02 pm to Korkstand
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Because 20 years ago kids did the same thing with Gameboys at recess.
Yeah, but almost 40 years ago did you see these red dots on a screen:
Becoming today's full fledged computer in the palm of your hand connected to a global repository of information and content? Especially considering we grew up in the era of heavy tube TVs, just the screen technology alone seemed far out.
For those of you who are too young to know what I posted a picture of, that was a very popular handheld football video game from the late 70s.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:09 pm to TigerinATL
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Yeah, but almost 40 years ago did you see these red dots on a screen becoming today's full fledged computer in the palm of your hand connected to a global repository of information and content? Especially considering we grew up in the era of heavy tube TVs, just the screen technology alone seemed far out.
I didn't mean I knew what the devices of today would be like, I just meant that our addiction to devices is not new and has been building for a long time.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:12 pm to 337Tiger19
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(For OTers 35+) What did you think the future would be like?
Did people really think there'd be flying cars and computerized smart houses?
yes, and i thought I would take a jet pack to work. So disappointed.
I never dreamed of internet porn though, so in the end I am better off
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:17 pm to 337Tiger19
I honestly was hoping the AIDS would have wiped out the majority of the dumbasses by now.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:17 pm to 337Tiger19
I was looking forward to jet packs being widely available and the 2 day work week.
Didn't materialize.
Didn't materialize.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:33 pm to 337Tiger19
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Did people really think there'd be flying cars and computerized smart houses?
No. I did think I'd be married to an OT-10 by now though.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:43 pm to Korkstand
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Cell phone addiction - 20 years ago, I truly never saw this coming: How old are you? Because 20 years ago kids did the same thing with Gameboys at recess.
bumping 40. The Gameboy craze was about 5 years after me.
The Betas in our class were still talking about playing games on PC.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 1:51 pm to gjackx
I used to hope for a future like that, then I was told it was racist show.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 2:05 pm to TigerintheNO
The Jetsons were not racist
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