How did it feel?

ScumLord

Misty Choas wrote: »

Nothing has really changed since I was a child, things have just gotten better.

*I haven't seen a dramatic change in the design of cars.

Maybe you can't see the difference but there is a drastic difference between a car now and a car from 20 years ago. Electronics and safety being the major ones. Plus we now have hybrid cars. On the surface they look fairly similar but under the skin they're very different.

*Nor a really dramatic change in the design of houses ( If anything, they've gotten worse! )

I've lived in a 150 year old house, there are major differences. Again, the shell isn't uniquely different it's still basically a box and that will never change but the technology inside has changed. Double glazed windows being a huge difference.

*We still have home video,well as DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Already verging on obsolete.

People are very different IMO, the world did change we just didn't take much notice.

Pittens

On the surface they look fairly similar but under the skin they're very different.

They don't fly.

candlegrease

embedding fail...thanks sharpshooter

Pittens

Also, where is HAL 9000? Where is my robot butler? My hoverboard? My flights to the moon hotel?

People are very different IMO, the world did change we just didn't take much notice.

It changed. Just not as much as you claimed at the outset.



And yes, I am an embittered futurist.

Pittens

Also clones. Where are they.

9 years until the scenes depicted in Blade Runner.

bonzodog2

That'd be replicants

ScumLord

Pittens wrote: »

Also clones. Where are they.

9 years until the scenes depicted in Blade Runner.

Cloning's illegal not impossible.

Jumpy

[bitter]I remember back in the day when PC games had dedicated servers.[/bitter]

Mike 1972

Pittens wrote: »

Also we cant fly faster than sound anymore.

What exactly do you mean by "we" ?

If you mean the human race collectively "we" still can. Military jets and space rockets do it all the time.

If you mean the average person on the street "we" never could. Concorde was always the preserve of the well healed.

Duggy747

I think the Big Brother reality show will be seen as a pinnacle point in mankind in hundreds of years when the brain became stupider.

That or those apes will rise up and claim the planet anytime soon

Pittens

If you mean the average person on the street "we" never could. Concorde was always the preserve of the well healed.

If it were all progress then it wouldn't have stayed the preserve of the rich. Just as flying, in general, hasn't.

ScumLord

The Concorde was an amazing feet of human engineering, something that should not be really. It was like a bus made by Ferrari. Cool but very impractical.

With that plane your confined by the laws of physics it just pushed the boundary's that little bit to far. It's problem being it flew too low, we can get over many of the problems that plane faced by going higher.

filthymcnasty

going by thread title was sure this was about 1st time ya got laid. for me so so

Dudess

I was hoping 2010 would be a lot more sci fi tbh... :mad: