I could use one of these, it would make EV‘s practical

 

This video from AT&T as produced in 1993. Following the theme of getting the functionality right but missing out of the technology (as in the above portable video phones) the writers completely missed the world changing effect of pervasive wireless networking and supercomputer (of the day) level pocket computers with higher resolution displays than could even be purchased at the time.

Still, it is quite accurate in many ways, as AT&T and Bell Labs always were.

 

Xerox PARC got the technology closer in 1991, even presaging IoT but they didn’t know that wireless would be the then-impossible microwave radio in the small form factor of the PDA and only considered radio for larger devices.. They also didn’t foresee tiny local CPUs being as powerful as they are.

But, all in all they did a very good job.

 

If you have come across something interesting please share.

Here's a car built in 1965-67 by a plastics company (Bayer at the time). I rode in that car nearly 30-years ago. It was built ~25-years before my ride. In 1965, there was very little plastic in a car. Some parts that they predicted to become plastic are now commonly made in plastic while some are not. Interestingly, they didn't forecast some parts to remain glass or steel and they are now commonly made of plastic.

 

Here's a car built in 1965-67 by a plastics company (Bayer at the time). I rode in that car nearly 30-years ago. It was built ~25-years before my ride. In 1965, there was very little plastic in a car. Some parts that they predicted to become plastic are now commonly made in plastic while some are not. Interestingly, they didn't forecast some parts to remain glass or steel and they are now commonly made of plastic.

Was it powered by lowq's revolutionary engine?

 

In 1968 I was 18 when I went to see 2001 A Space Odessey. Here I am today looking back at how accurately Stanley Kubrick depicted the future. A few says ago I had an annual chest scan, the technology in medicine is incredible. Today at 72 I am seeing things in my lifetime I never expected to have come about this quickly. I remember the 1964/1965 Worlds Fair which was a few miles from where I lived. The GE Carousel of Progress was pretty cool and following the fair was adopted by Disneyland in CA. I saw it in Disneyland before my first overseas deployment with a decade added. Apparently today it still exist and of course in Tomorrowland. At the worlds fair a friend and I got to try the then incredible picture phone. Today a common feature on any smart phone. Go figure?

Ron

 

Robocop:

https://screenrant.com/robocop-moments-predicted-future/
https://www.businessinsider.com/how...rtant-about-modern-americaback-in-1987-2012-5

In RoboCop, economic life is deformed by extreme poverty and recession. The only decent paying jobs, it seems, are as ruthless corporate chieftains, police officers or drug lords. The cops are on strike. The capitalists want to destroy the city. And the gangsters are enjoying every minute of it.
Does this sound familiar?

Soylent Green:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/entert...-2022-what-did-the-dystopian-movie-get-right/

Soylent Green's vision of the future is grim. There's been a mostly unexplained worldwide ecological disaster involving rampant global warming. Water is scarce. The oceans are dying. Forty million people are crowded into a heat-blasted New York City packed with broken-down cars, families sleeping on staircases and churches filled with the sick and indigent. There isn't enough food to go around, so the poor eat waferlike food substitutes called soylent while the rich live in air-conditioned high-rise apartments and get access to luxury items like celery sticks.

 

I remember watching "Soylent Green" in the 70s. It was an excellent movie but I found it quite disturbing when they finally revealed that "Soylent Green" was manufactured from the bodies of the people who had reached their expiry date.

 

I feel like we are moving toward "A Clockwork Orange" more so than anything else.

 

I feel like we are moving toward "A Clockwork Orange" more so than anything else.

I'd say it's becoming more like "a brave new world"

 

Perhaps...but where is the evidence?

Search "Flash Mob" and 7-eleven or ATV dirt bike gangs to see mine.

 

H.G.Wells' "The Time Machine", written in 1895 made some very interesting predictions about the near and far distant future.

 

First Contact.

 

I am pretty sure that is a submarine (simulator?). the printing terminal in front is cobbled together from a DECwriter II and something I don’t recognize. That makes it an anachronism and completely exposes the fake nature of the photo.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20000706.../navpalib/news/news_stories/sub-centen02.html

Washington, D.C., Apr. 10, 2000 — A full-scale mock-up of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Tim Altevogt. [000410-N-7495A-004] Apr. 10, 2000.

 

@strantor Check out this post.

 

@strantor Check out this post.

Well to be fair, you only beat me to it by a couple of weeks! You typed that while I was typing!

Seriously though... sorta.

I saw the post when it was posted and was going to comment that I thought it was something other than a submarine simulator. I had the helm in mind, and it looks nothing like that. I forgot about the maneuvering room. I started to type a response but then figured I would do some research before opening my mouth. Got distracted, didn't come back for a long time. When I did, I must have picked up past the point where I left off.

 

Well to be fair, you only beat me to it by a couple of weeks! You typed that while I was typing!

Seriously though... sorta.

I saw the post when it was posted and was going to comment that I thought it was something other than a submarine simulator. I had the helm in mind, and it looks nothing like that. I forgot about the maneuvering room. I started to type a response but then figured I would do some research before opening my mouth. Got distracted, didn't come back for a long time. When I did, I must have picked up past the point where I left off.

Gotta love cross-typing!

Seriously though... sorta.

I thought there might be some additional information about the history there that you would find interesting.

Do you have any idea what that pointy-medieval-torture-glove-like-thingy on the wall might be?

 

Do you have any idea what that pointy-medieval-torture-glove-like-thingy on the wall might be?

No clue. I'm going to assume it's a shriveled human hand until someone proves otherwise.