Chatting up someone in person will be considered weird and creepy.
Chatting up someone through a computer having never met them and possibly never meeting them will be considered normal.
Wait; what?
Yeah, what?
The kind of behavior that’s weird and creepy in person is also weird and creepy on line. And it isn’t just a matter of talking to people.
I don’t necessarily think it’s weird and creepy - but I can’t say my 22 year old niece wouldn’t think it was strange if someone she didn’t know just started a conversation with her at the mall or something. When I asked where she met her partner she said online and her tone said “where else would I meet someone”
Why? If your belief is that “decentralized schooling” (which I assume means home schooling) is good for teaching literacy, then the Covid lockdown should have been a boon for literacy.
It’s 2022. It would be strange to be in a mall and see another person to talk to.
It would be strange to see another person to talk to period, without their eyes glued to their phones.
That was kind of what I was going for, wasn’t being entirely serious but guess it didn’t really work!
For those unaware, Fandom (the buyer) was previously known as Wikia, and so is the home of the vast majority of fan wikis in existence.
Personally, I’d have highlighted the “anyone can edit” part. It would not surprise me at all of the idea is to crowdsource the bulk of the work for TV Guide.
There are endless Tik Tok videos of young women complaining that men don’t approach them anymore. Basically because the men don’t want to be thought of as creepy.
It’s a real issue with young people today.
So why don’t they approach the men?
In a non-creepy fashion, of course. There are ways to do that.
I have over 350 books in my pocket.
David Lee Roth will one day be desperate enough to sing country.
Google says that AOL opened to the public in 1991 under a different name, changed to AOL in 1992. I certainly never heard of it. What I had heard of were data networks like Tymnet in the US and Datapac in Canada that I and my coauthor in Cleveland could use to exchange files for the book we were writing jointly as early as 1982. I got email (bitnet) in the winter of 1984-85.
In 1985, it would have sounded crazy to say that less than 1/3 of households still had telephone lines coming into their house.
By the early 1990s I had heard of Compuserve, America Online, and Prodigy, but I had never seen them being used.
The wall will fall.
I predicted that it would fall in my lifetime, no idea when, but I said “when it happens, it will happen fast.” Curiously, nobody remembers that I said that. Crazy.
For me, I knew kids who had Prodigy accounts back in 1991. One of my friends still has his old Prodigy email address as his main personal contact, which still renders in all-caps for whatever reason (I assume legacy reasons.) Compuserve I was aware of in the 80s. I remember at least one or two magazines like Family Computing including articles about Compuserve and having those weird Compuserve email-type addresses in them. I could swear I remember seeing those in newspapers sometimes, too. But I didn’t know any Compuserve users. QuantumLink (which became AOL) was the Commodore online service. Being an avid C64 fan (like most of my friends), we knew of it, but I didn’t know a single person who subscribed to QuantumLink. If you were a C64 user and had a modem, you were all about the local BBSes for the warez and demos, not QuantumLink.
I still have a landline in my house, and I figure it’d sound crazy to note that I’ve never bothered to find out the number.
I’ve had a phone on my desk since 2015 and found out the number last week from calling my cell for it just for the lolz. We are maintaining literally thousands of terminating ANIs because a handful of executives and their admins can’t or won’t use cell phones as their primary numbers or use some kind of forwarding. Dozens of offices with switchboards and voice mail systems that 95+% of employees have never used.
Actually, a female vice president was foreseeable in 1985, because there was one on a major party ticket the previous year.
We will, however, still not have flying cars.
I’m trying to imagine things you could tell me about 2060 now that would make me think you’re a crazy person and a lot of the stuff in this thread wouldn’t meet the bar.
Some technology that is ubiquitous now barely exists any more? Sure, why not?
Something that is barely a concept in Sci-Fi completely reshapes our society? Yeah, no doubt.
Some confident prediction of future society turns out to be false? Of course it would, we aren’t that great at predicting the future.
Society becomes arbitrarily socially more liberal or conservative in some extreme way? Sounds like something that could happen.
Some celebrity that is beloved is now vilified or vice versa due to new revelations? Well, of course.
The things that would sound really crazy to me would be large scale changes to basic aspects of human nature.
You’re telling me the governments of the world got together and hashed out a reasonable and effective solution towards climate change and implemented it with little resistance from the populace? You’re cuckoo bananas!
People on the internet started being nice to each other and trolling is now a quaint memory? What kinda pills are you taking my man?
I think the thing that would amaze me the most is not that Jan 6th happened but then how quickly everyone got over it and how little impact it ended up having on political preferences. As someone living in a 1985 frame of reference, I don’t think I could wrap my head around the types of people who would just not care about Jan 6th and how a society could slouch towards fascism.