How guys that look like Ben Stiller and Steve Carell could be major stars in romantic comedies.
If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain
I don’t think people understand just how futuristic a modern cell phone would be perceived. To even refer to it as a cell phone greatly discounts it’s function.
I can still remember my reaction of the first digital watch. It was a red LED unit shown on the Johnny Carson show. A Hamilton Pulsar. It cost $2,100 in 1972. The WOW factor was enormous.
Someone seeing a cell phone today would look at it with stunned disbelief. The concept of a handheld device with unlimited functions wouldn’t just be hard to explain it would be met with virtually total disbelief.
I still remember the look on my fathers face when I brought him a cheap walkman radio when he was in the hospital. It was 1987. He looked at it with mild interest because his experience with earbuds were of the type used for crystal radios. Tinny horrible sound that was tolerated if one wanted to listen to a ball game. The next day when I came back he was amazed at how well the sound was.
Imagine if someone from the 50’s experienced this single minor function of the phone and was presented with a database of every song they ever heard stored on it. Now imagine their response to a demonstration of every function of the phone plus what the internet provides. It is beyond anything Star Trek demonstrated in the 60’s.
People complaining about a top marginal income tax rate of 39%.
It was over 90% during the entire Eisenhower administration, and the economy didn’t seem to suffer that much.
“You’re still making movies in 3D? They must look so much more realistic!”
sigh “No, not really.”
You have games you can live inside of in 3D… WOW
Good point. PONG was amazing when it first started out. Modern 3D games are absolutely mind-blowing. Second Life is particularly amazing.
“Well what are the rules to Second Life?”
“There are no rules, other than the ones we make up.”
“Who builds the lands, and the buildings and the clothes?”
“We do.
" What do you have to know about the players?”
“The men are played by women, the women are played by men, and the children are played by FBI agents.”
“What, FBI agents?”
“Well CIA and NSA too.”
“Why for God’s sake?”
“Well the FBI agents are looking for pedophiles and the CIA and the NSA agents are looking for terrorists.”
“Pedophiles? Terrorists? It’s a game, right?”
“Its’ a long story.”
Thanks for making me feel old. I remember when pong came out and I had to look up Second Life because I never heard of it.
there’s going to be a point in history when all the data images of real cities are brought into a 3D version of this and then we’ll all be drooling idiots walking around in a dream state using thoughts instead of hand controllers.
To get on one of my favorite soap boxes, what about the amount of drugged up people today? You go to the doctor for anything, and you get a drug. You feel a little sad? Get a drug. Drug doesn’t work? Get another drug. Or another drug in addition to the first one. Have bad side effects? Another drug. On and on and on and on and…
If 1950’s person ever gets back to the 50’s, the first thing they should do is buy stock in pharmaceuticals.
Better living through chemistry. Living in the future is awesome.
Yeah, that’s actually exactly what people expected back then. This aversion to “unnatural chemicals” is an entirely new movement. At some point we had to name Sugar Pops to Corn Pops and the idea that American cheese was homogenized and processed made it more appealing, not less and the only thing that could make it better was if it was radioactive somehow. Of course, forget that American cheese is little more just swiss and cheddar with a little bit of cloby melted together - it’s FUTURE CHEESE. The obsession with how “natural” and “authentic” things are is a modern hangup. People really didn’t care back then.