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What commonplace technology/innovations amazed you at first?
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:46 pm
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:46 pm
Obviously the original iPhone seemed like wizardry. Same feeling when I saw a rendering of an iPad a couple of years before it came out.
I remember how amazed I was when fast food restaurants began accepting credit cards. At first, they passed you the receipt and a pen through the drive thru window to sign the receipt. They stopped fooling with a signature fairly quickly.
Video games at the time seemed ridiculously advanced but now are unwatchable due to graphics, like Legend of Dragoon or Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.
Things I'm seeing now that amaze me are mostly virtual reality related. A hologram of a keyboard that projects out from a device and can be used like a real keyboard. Using a smart watch to virtually try on clothes.
What amazed you originally and what new or future tech amazes you now?
I remember how amazed I was when fast food restaurants began accepting credit cards. At first, they passed you the receipt and a pen through the drive thru window to sign the receipt. They stopped fooling with a signature fairly quickly.
Video games at the time seemed ridiculously advanced but now are unwatchable due to graphics, like Legend of Dragoon or Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.
Things I'm seeing now that amaze me are mostly virtual reality related. A hologram of a keyboard that projects out from a device and can be used like a real keyboard. Using a smart watch to virtually try on clothes.
What amazed you originally and what new or future tech amazes you now?
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Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:46 pm to LeonPhelps
Beepers.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:47 pm to LeonPhelps
Drones are pretty legit.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:47 pm to LeonPhelps
fax machines
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:47 pm to LeonPhelps
Shazam app
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:48 pm to yankeeundercover
Drones are a good one. Forgot about that one. And drones delivering packages to your front door is pretty awesome.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:48 pm to LeonPhelps
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What commonplace technology/innovations amazed you at first?
PAUSING LIVE TV!?!? IMPOSSIBLE!
This post was edited on 7/13/15 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:48 pm to LeonPhelps
Saved by the bell.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:49 pm to LeonPhelps
fire. I was like woa, if I eat this food I could get sick, but then this whole fire thing made it good to eat. It was crazy.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:50 pm to oldcharlie8
More updated - document scanners that sent the image directly to your computer was amazing to me at first after dealing with fax machines for a while. I remember having to put in a phone number into a fax machine to have it have an image to my computer - that seemed to be the forerunner to scanning via a printer/scanner.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:51 pm to LeonPhelps
I'm still amazed at GPS apps and the fact that you can have GPS on a 3"x5" device in your hands.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:52 pm to CAD703X
Ah yes. I remember that came our when I was around 13. Being able to pause TV and then skip commercials seemed impossible.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:52 pm to LeonPhelps
Wireless internet blew my mind.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:53 pm to CAD703X
quote:
PAUSING LIVE TV!?!? IMPOSSIBLE!
DVR's blew my mind.
I was overseas for a year when they came out and when I came back it seemed like magic.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:54 pm to SouthOfSouth
Fire allowed us to evolve to become much smarter than our cousin apes. Cooking food made it much easier for our body to digest it, allowing more nutrients to go toward developing our brain rather than our muscles or some such.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:57 pm to LeonPhelps
The microwave oven blew my mind. And the remote control for the TV.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:57 pm to LeonPhelps
Uber and Google Now are probably innovations that have significantly changed how I do things. Not necessarily technical marvels, but pretty amazing.
On a related note, if you stop to ponder Google Maps, you might recognize it may be the most beneficial free thing any company has ever done in this country.
On a related note, if you stop to ponder Google Maps, you might recognize it may be the most beneficial free thing any company has ever done in this country.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 12:58 pm to LeonPhelps
Anything wireless blows my mind
Posted on 7/13/15 at 1:00 pm to LeonPhelps
I'm still amazed by smart phones even though I've had one since the iphone was available. Unlimited knowledge in a device that small? Incredible. And it holds all my music, can tell me how to get to unfamiliar places, set a schedule, keep notes, take pictures, take video, and I can talk to people like I'm on the fricking Jetsons all face to face and shite? How people take that for granted is beyond me.
the first time I experienced a backup camera I was blown away too.
the first time I experienced a backup camera I was blown away too.
Posted on 7/13/15 at 1:01 pm to The Mick
anyone old enough to remember when it was "car phone" long before it was a "cell phone"?
you needed an antenna on your car to get a decent signal so nothing portable about it.
you needed an antenna on your car to get a decent signal so nothing portable about it.
This post was edited on 7/13/15 at 1:02 pm
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