It is the year 2011
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I think we've realized that if we can't trust most people to operating a car on 2 axes, another 4 to worry about is a bad idea.
Thank goodness, people like me who still want to get a pilots license will have the airways clear of morons on cellphones.
Anyways, think about how awesome the computer you're using is.
We are currently measuring capacity of consumer-level computers (say, $600 worth) in terms of GIGAhertz of processing power. Your video of a cat on youtube (loaded faster than the playback speed, mind you) would take up 2 or 3 floppys worth of disk space in 1990's terms, and about an hour on dialup to obtain.
In the year 1996, Mechwarrior 2 came out, its graphics were so advanced NO commercially-available computer could feasibly run it on full blast. Now it looks like something on a gameboy.
We have smartphones- ten times the operating capacity of a desktop computer a decade ago, costs $200, and all come installed with access to a gigantic interconnected system of computers that has free access to any information to anyone from anywhere.
I think this future is pretty sweet, personally.
Thank goodness, people like me who still want to get a pilots license will have the airways clear of morons on cellphones.
Anyways, think about how awesome the computer you're using is.
We are currently measuring capacity of consumer-level computers (say, $600 worth) in terms of GIGAhertz of processing power. Your video of a cat on youtube (loaded faster than the playback speed, mind you) would take up 2 or 3 floppys worth of disk space in 1990's terms, and about an hour on dialup to obtain.
In the year 1996, Mechwarrior 2 came out, its graphics were so advanced NO commercially-available computer could feasibly run it on full blast. Now it looks like something on a gameboy.
We have smartphones- ten times the operating capacity of a desktop computer a decade ago, costs $200, and all come installed with access to a gigantic interconnected system of computers that has free access to any information to anyone from anywhere.
I think this future is pretty sweet, personally.
It's 2011 and we don't have a moon colony yet. That is truly disappointing.
I can understand us not having a mars colony yet, but nothing on the moon?
We're even ten years past 2001, and we haven't done anything with the moon in how long?
The least we can do is crush up some moon rocks into gel, see if that does anything.
I can understand us not having a mars colony yet, but nothing on the moon?
We're even ten years past 2001, and we haven't done anything with the moon in how long?
The least we can do is crush up some moon rocks into gel, see if that does anything.
Yeah, this here is a good point.lariat37 said:
Though I do find it odd that I'm living in the year 2011, and that I'll(hopefully) still be living in the year 2030 and 2050 etc. It just seems like a time period that's supposed to be "futuristic". The obvious result of Hollywood media.
I always thought things would be more efficient and stuff in the future. Heh.. goddamn, was I wrong ^_^
Also, I definitely have to say that I'm disappointed with how much of life is on computers/phones now. I've thought about killing my Facebook profile, but I realized that if I were to do that, so few people communicate otherwise that I would pretty much never be invited to anything ever again, simply because that's how people are invited to things/find out about things. And I only still have a cell phone because my parents eliminated the land line in favour of all of us having cell phones -_- ... ugh.
Also, I definitely have to say that I'm disappointed with how much of life is on computers/phones now. I've thought about killing my Facebook profile, but I realized that if I were to do that, so few people communicate otherwise that I would pretty much never be invited to anything ever again, simply because that's how people are invited to things/find out about things. And I only still have a cell phone because my parents eliminated the land line in favour of all of us having cell phones -_- ... ugh.
Yes those are jetpacks, YES they are real. You can have everything from an 80's sci-fi, you just have to make it yourself.
I can't help but feel we're taking many of the negative aspects of scifi and not enough of the positives. We're essentially poisoning our world at the same time as using up most of the resoures our society currently depends upon, yet making nowhere near enough progress in less damaging methods of doing things. Anytime progress is made it is largely ridiculed or dismissed on the basis of being "crackpot" or too expensive.
One of my greatest disapointments continues to be the various space programs. If anything these are actively going backwards and now only just starting to get momentum again. Of course, even if we do put a colony on the moon, we'd probably just mine it dry.
One of my greatest disapointments continues to be the various space programs. If anything these are actively going backwards and now only just starting to get momentum again. Of course, even if we do put a colony on the moon, we'd probably just mine it dry.
I know, fuck cars.Souplex said:
If technology was advanced in any way whatsoever we wouldn't need giant, polluting chunks of metal that can kill people to transport us.
According to Back to the Future 2, one will be invented within the next 4 years.bdcjacko said:
Seriously though, there are reasons why we don't ahve flying cars. It's for a similar reason to why we don't let more than a few people fly planes. You'd have to qualifiy, there'd be way more accidents because flying would mean maintaining a greater speed and certainly burning more fuel. The speed would mean we would have accidents more often, and the fuel would mean those accidents would undoubtedly be more catastrophic. Plus the actual problem of having enough fuel on the planet to maintain flying cars. (Although, if BttF2 is to be believed again, we will be using rubbish to power our cars anyway...)
So basically, what are you trying to say? That you're dissapointed in the time we're living in? To be honest, I wouldn't get your hopes up for any of that happening in the future either. The way I see it is we're living in a golden age, an age of technologies that will undoubtedly end and everything will go downhill from there.
Sorry, did I kill you future-boner?
But thats exactly what Minecraft is about! Not shiny graphics per say, but shiny ore.mikozero said:
EDIT: OT: You don't have your flying car because Dante Hix decided that having his foot sawed off by a crazy scientist before being taken advantage of by him and his friends was too much for the flying car.
