Where are those one-piece coveralls we were all supposed to be wearing by now?
Even in the future nothing works!
Car makers and camera makers (hell, everybody!) keeps trying to put more crap on their products, adding more and more features, when we would all prefer more reliability. This seems to be truer of Japanese companies than German. My Leicaflex SL2s are 35+ years old, and the shutter of one of them went out after 32 years of heavy use. It was easily repaired. Japanese cameras of 1975 are junk now.
*Metallic Silver *one-piece coveralls!
Oh hell no!
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Your point is?
Some ‘future’! Hah!
You have e-mail. Which travels much faster than any rocket has ever gone.
The problem is the past 20 years there been lots of money going into research and development into computers ,internet and electronics. But very little research and development into robotics and space program.That is why the space program and robotics are over 20 years behind every thing else.
Yes they did not predict this. And I’m sure this year and very much so next year you going to see 4K still cameras and 4K video cameras for the public.
The picture quality is going to look very good.
You need to be a bit patient, because we don’t have really smart phones yet. Remember, it took over 10 years for PCs to make much of a difference in people’s lives. Before people got connected they played games, they wrote, they save recipes, and that was about it. Once they got connected things exploded.
When phones get smart enough to know where you are and anticipate your needs, then things will change. It will be a few years yet.
So as I thought: you don’t have any point.
Whenever there’s a thread or discussion on something negative, there’s always people who come in with “Oh, stop your whining”, or words to that effect, because they don’t like the downbeat message but can’t respond to the actual content.
The last 30 years have been great in many ways: the fastest rise out of poverty the world has ever seen, fewer conflicts (yes, even with the war on terror) etc.
But I think it is fair to say that technologically it has been disappointing, that’s all. I’m not blaming anyone; it’s simply that many things have proven far more difficult than we anticipated.
I visited the Innoventions exhibition at Disneyland in about 2008 with my wife and one of the Fantastic Inventions of THE FUTURE! on display was a car satellite navigation system that was less advanced than the ones I sold every day in my job at the time.
In fact, I don’t recall there being anything in the exhibition that made me go “Cool!”, and I love all that World Of Tomorrow stuff.
You mean Onesies? Unfortunately, they’re everywhere, though not quite as predicted.
Was the irony lost on you? LOL
Anything that is not capable of being accomplished or enhanced by computers is no closer to realization than ever. Of course, a lot can be accomplished faster and easier with computer assistance, and that’s what’s happening now. Miniaturization and portability are driving product design. Instead of flying cars, we have Denalis driven by rude women drivers. LOL
This is probably more appropriate for IMHO than GQ by now.
Colibri
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Except for music (going from scratchy low-fi 78s to digital music), computers (nonexistent in 1930), mobile phones, the internet, etc. etc.
Plus a lot of “refinements” were massive. Television existed in 1930–as a sixty line monochrome picture on a postage sized screen. Even as late as the 80s, problems with tint/vertical hold/ghosting were commonplace, and “big screen” was bigger than 25 inches.
Televisions themselves haven’t changed much. What has changed is the distribution mechanism.
Movies were a few things “broadcast” to people in a central location. Early television was a few things broadcast to lots of people in their homes. In both cases people had little control over what they received. Cable was just more stuff. But then VCRs and DVRs let people watch when they wanted. As we move to demand, TV becomes more like a library, where we can check out what content we want at any time. Netflix is already like this. As a 1956 TV watcher, I can say this is fundamentally different. And it would be even if we had the crappy little screens you mention - still better than watching on a phone!
I have said there were refinements, yes, but the framework for our contemporary existence was in place by 1930. You did not go to the movies, listen to records or radio, or ride in an aeroplane or car in 1880. Some things were in their infancy, some less so, but they existed.