Original post by LessBread I do know that in 1999 other people didn't believe me when I told them that the internet would become the television of the future.
Academia has proven in 2008 that video on demand over internet is not possible (pdf) (section 6).
That was around the time Youtube (and others) started offering HD streaming.
haha amazing. they even talk about youtube serving 100ts of millions of videos each day and such. which IS Video on Demand.
could be a fun read on a boring evening :)
Heh and now we have things like gaming on demand with OnLive. (It's subscription free now, just download a 1 MB client and play demos without even a credit card). :\ The future moves quickly.
The one thing that's surprised me over these many years is the speed of computers and the size of them. Something about a billion transistors in a processor is mind boggling especially at the sizes they're fabricating them at.
Original post by LessBread I don't remember what I thought about future tech in 1995. I do know that in 1999 other people didn't believe me when I told them that the internet would become the television of the future. The unveiling of Google-TV this week reminded me of that. If you had told me back in 1980 that vinyl records would be obsolete in ten years I would not have believed you. In 1980 if you had told me that in 25 years I would be able to take my entire record collection with me everywhere I went and that the device allowing me to do so would be smaller than a hand held calculator, I would have totally laughed at you and probably ridiculed you as some kind of insane pinko commie.
Dude. I'm watching realtime DVD quality movies in Argentina through some shitty web-site. I could have speculated about it 15 years ago, but it really looked unplausible at the time. Many of us still connected to the internet through a 56k telephone-modem. And we used Netscape!
56k? Really? Here it was 14.4 and 28.8 and dreaming about ISDN at 128. Iirc, 56k modems came out around 1997. Netscape 1 could fit on a floppy disc.
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." - the Laughing Man
Original post by LessBread I don't remember what I thought about future tech in 1995. I do know that in 1999 other people didn't believe me when I told them that the internet would become the television of the future. The unveiling of Google-TV this week reminded me of that. If you had told me back in 1980 that vinyl records would be obsolete in ten years I would not have believed you. In 1980 if you had told me that in 25 years I would be able to take my entire record collection with me everywhere I went and that the device allowing me to do so would be smaller than a hand held calculator, I would have totally laughed at you and probably ridiculed you as some kind of insane pinko commie.
Dude. I'm watching realtime DVD quality movies in Argentina through some shitty web-site. I could have speculated about it 15 years ago, but it really looked unplausible at the time. Many of us still connected to the internet through a 56k telephone-modem. And we used Netscape!
56k? Really? Here it was 14.4 and 28.8 and dreaming about ISDN at 128. Iirc, 56k modems came out around 1997. Netscape 1 could fit on a floppy disc.
I had 9600 baud until 98. The 9600 was cool because in text games I could queue up 20 commands and read the output as it came in line by line. When I upgraded to a 56k the room descriptions came in huge blocks as soon as I hit enter and I lost the ability to process all the messages while playing.
Original post by LessBread I don't remember what I thought about future tech in 1995. I do know that in 1999 other people didn't believe me when I told them that the internet would become the television of the future. The unveiling of Google-TV this week reminded me of that. If you had told me back in 1980 that vinyl records would be obsolete in ten years I would not have believed you. In 1980 if you had told me that in 25 years I would be able to take my entire record collection with me everywhere I went and that the device allowing me to do so would be smaller than a hand held calculator, I would have totally laughed at you and probably ridiculed you as some kind of insane pinko commie.
Dude. I'm watching realtime DVD quality movies in Argentina through some shitty web-site. I could have speculated about it 15 years ago, but it really looked unplausible at the time. Many of us still connected to the internet through a 56k telephone-modem. And we used Netscape!
56k? Really? Here it was 14.4 and 28.8 and dreaming about ISDN at 128. Iirc, 56k modems came out around 1997. Netscape 1 could fit on a floppy disc.
I had 9600 baud until 98. The 9600 was cool because in text games I could queue up 20 commands and read the output as it came in line by line. When I upgraded to a 56k the room descriptions came in huge blocks as soon as I hit enter and I lost the ability to process all the messages while playing.
[lol] Like Matthew Broderick in "War Games".
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." - the Laughing Man
Original post by Eelco All that I expect that would happen pretty much did, and all of the stuff I knew wouldnt, didnt (robots, AI or biotech of any real world significance, or an energy revolution).
The biotech part is debatable. Genetic manipulation of bacteria has become an essential part of production in the pharma industry. Genetically manipulated crops have become very widespread as well.
Just because you don't see it in your daily life doesn't mean it's not there.
Original post by owl Doom II against your friend at 1am anyone. when your parents couldn't notice it? anyone?
hahahahaha for me, it was waking up at 5am on a Saturday morning to play dial-up Warcraft II with my cousin ... smothering the 14.4k modem with pillows in order to stop it from waking up the parents
Original post by owl Doom II against your friend at 1am anyone. when your parents couldn't notice it? anyone?
hahahahaha for me, it was waking up at 5am on a Saturday morning to play dial-up Warcraft II with my cousin ... smothering the 14.4k modem with pillows in order to stop it from waking up the parents
The saddest thing is, I know students who don't know what that sound is. I think it was stargate SG1 that we were watching, and someone asked what the sound clip at the end of the show credits was,... I think I've been at University too long.
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this is a very hard question for me to answer - this is as a science geek, researcher wanna be (when I was a kid) - and watch a lot of Beyond 2000 (including the one with a robot pushing a kid on a swing).
I always thought that everything is possible, it just a matter of when. I even believe in cryogenic - it just that they are doing it wrong (in my own clueless opinion). people shouldn't be freez-ed after they are dead, it's when they are almost dead. the other question is, how to freeze human without killing him/her?
in the qoran it was said that there are cure for everything, except death - as in no resurrection. i just a matter of when. too tired to do wikipedia research, but how many cure / vaccin / immunination has we developed? Maybe one day there will be a super vaccine that when delivered to a baby, will prepare him/her against all known ailments.
I always believe in a lot of thing that my popular sciene & popular mechanic reading brain think possible - even when most people said it was impossible.
I still remember a post at gamedev when people are still using zip drive, and there is a picture of a hard disk with wires connected to USB plug, and the window explorer shows 8 gig size, and most people think it was fake. but i believe in it.
Now not only we have thumbdrive, but I think that invention lead to portable hd, and the currently quite popular hard disk casing.
I believe in it, and I was right.
I'm a person who when see a thing always think - how can I improve this. I know the know why, or the main idea, just not the technicalities. there are a few inventions that quite popular when invented, was using the same idea that I think of when I was a kid. can't remember what now.
in a matter of fact, the moment I saw MP3, I knew an mp3 player will replace walkman or cd player. of course, my idea on it was based on the then current rule. looking at how much a song can be fit on a cd in mp3 format, I knew that mp3 playing cd player will be invented - and i was right, the moment I saw thumb drive, I knew solid state (?) will replace mp3 playing cd player automatically due to size and portability.
i never think of stuff that can't happen, I just can't wait when stuff I dream on will happens.
