Technology these days

Scanlas The 2nd

You hear so many people mentioning how amazing technology is these days, it's almost like they think they are superior to people in the past without the latest technology. Thinking back 10 years ago it was pretty much the same, people continuously talking about the wonders of modern technology with an undercurrent of superiority. When did this start, In 1992 I vaguely remember it being similar but I was only 7 or so so can't really say.

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

Wacker The Attacker

Its ok to have a technological hard on from time to time.

Mr Benevolent

Someone who was born in 1985 is NOT permitted to use the phrase 'these days' (you must be 70 or over). You're 27 ffs. Technology is fucking brilliant. I have a PC in my pocket that only cost €100. What's there to complain about? Technology even compensates for your problem with pulling. Or rather, it helps you pull something else.

Duckworth_Luas

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

When did this start

With the invention of the wheel probably!

OldGoat

Pft, the wheel was pretty crap till the axel came along.

FatherLen

if you think technology hasn't progressed in the last ten years then you don't know enough about technology.

Ah_Yeah

People will always bang on about how great technology is, and how far it has come all the time. In 10 years time, if technology advances further, people will be saying how great it is and how far it has come compared to 2012.

5starpool

Wasn't it around 1900 that someone proudly proclaimed "Everything that can be invented, has been invented". Good shout by that man.

RobbieTheRobber

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

You hear so many people mentioning how amazing technology is these days, it's almost like they think they are superior to people in the past without the latest technology. Thinking back 10 years ago it was pretty much the same, people continuously talking about the wonders of modern technology with an undercurrent of superiority. When did this start, In 1992 I vaguely remember it being similar but I was only 7 or so so can't really say.

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

Anyway OP I just asked Siri and it said,
'Do you want me to search the internet for "Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?"'

What should I do now?

bryaner

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates 1981

Duggy747

10 years ago you couldn't get beastiality in HD.

So there!!

Ghandee

OldGoat wrote: »

Pft, the wheel was pretty crap till the axel came along.

Axle was shít too, until slash and the gang came along ....

DipStick McSwindler

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preddy

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

Hopefully Holographic Interactive Porn

That's just called having sex with a duurty girl!

Scanlas The 2nd

FatherLen wrote: »

if you think technology hasn't progressed in the last ten years then you don't know enough about technology.

I never said technology hasn't progressed. Many people ten years ago had a similar feeling of superiority due to modern technology IMO.

davet82

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

ok i'm gonna need a time machine or a ouija board to answer this one :rolleyes:

Duggy747

Well, to be fair, we always compare technology to what it was like a decade before.

Be it gaming, mp3 players, phones, laptops, desktops, TVs, etc, all you have to do is look at something 10 years ago and you'll see how far it's progressed.

In the 1950's it was all about "the future" and "tomorrow's technology" with the advent in TV and other tech in the American household and the rise in sci-fi popularity.

Though I don't see all the hub-bub over smart phones, even if they have come an enormous way in the past 10 years. They're good but no way I'd fork out €300+ for a phone, personally. I work in IT but I just want a phone that does it's job.........phone things :pac:

Scanlas The 2nd

davet82 wrote: »

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

ok i'm gonna need a time machine or a ouija board to answer this one :rolleyes:

Ever hear of technology such as a pen and paper.

It's been around for thousands of years, past events can actually be documented using it. No need for your time machine :rolleyes:

A2LUE42

What about the Antikythera mechanism which dates to BC. That was pretty advanced. It has taken almost a hundred years to figure out how complex it actually was.

Chuck Stone

I'm mature old enough to remember when we got a phone in the house. Heck, I remember when my Ma got a front loader washing masheen and me and my siblings running out the door screaming when it went into a high speed spin :pac: (we thought it was going to blow up)

I was trying to explain 'before the internet' to my niece and nephew and told them that the nearest thing to it was having the Encyclopaedia Britannica book collection at home or off down to the library and they were like > :eek::eek:

We're living in 'the information revolution' and I reckon it will be looked back upon with the same significance as the industrial revolution in time.

Everybody nowadays references technology from The first Matrix movie onwards anyway.:pac:

foxyboxer

Any technological breakthrough is not truly a breakthrough unless it can make fart noises.

e.g. http://ifartmobile.com/

davet82

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Ever hear of technology such as a pen and paper.

It's been around for thousands of years, past events can actually be documented using it. No need for your time machine :rolleyes:

pen and paper? :pac:

wft is that? some kind of primative text messaging :P

Gurgle

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

Ever since the industrial revolution everyone is affected by new technologies.

Prior to that anything new and amazing was the exclusive preserve of the super rich, most people wouldn't even know it existed.

BrianD3

For a few years we've been experiencing a technological/digital revolution which shows no signs of ending. Some think that progress is accelerating and that we are on our way to a sort of technological "singularity".

Is it a surprise that people think that the (fairly recent) past is old hat when you consider, for example, the increase in supercomputer speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing
Fastest supercomputer in the world by year
1997: 1.338 TFLOPS
2002: 35.86 TFLOPS
2007: 478.2 TFLOPS
2012: 10.51 PFLOPS

So, from 1997 to 2002 the increase in speed of the fastest supercomputer was around 34 TFLOPS
A decade later in the 2007-2012 period the increase was around 10000 TFLOPS.

Scanlas The 2nd

Gurgle wrote: »

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

Ever since the industrial revolution everyone is affected by new technologies.

Prior to that anything new and amazing was the exclusive preserve of the super rich, most people wouldn't even know it existed.

Well, what about the invention of new farming methods, agriculture etc? These effected everyone. I wonder what people's thoughts about those new technologies were.

CodyJarrett

davet82 wrote: »

ok i'm gonna need a time machine or a ouija board to answer this one :rolleyes:

Wibbs will be in soon, he'll tell us

Ray Palmer

A2LUE42 wrote: »

What about the Antikythera mechanism which dates to BC. That was pretty advanced. It has taken almost a hundred years to figure out how complex it actually was.

While very impressive it wasn't really a leap in technology. Gears were known as was the figures for lunar movements.

We are truely inventing new things at the moment. Technology at the moment is inventing things never thought of.

We are living in a time of massive innovation. It is also happening at amazing speed.

hooradiation

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

You hear so many people mentioning how amazing technology is these days, it's almost like they think they are superior to people in the past without the latest technology. Thinking back 10 years ago it was pretty much the same, people continuously talking about the wonders of modern technology with an undercurrent of superiority. When did this start, In 1992 I vaguely remember it being similar but I was only 7 or so so can't really say.

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

My fucking christ - it's almost like technology is constantly advancing and improving.

What an amazing observation.

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyLnWm1iCs

Stephen P

I remember being told in college in 1999 that a 3GB hard disk is loads and I think RAM was 32MB.

Scanlas The 2nd

hooradiation wrote: »

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

You hear so many people mentioning how amazing technology is these days, it's almost like they think they are superior to people in the past without the latest technology. Thinking back 10 years ago it was pretty much the same, people continuously talking about the wonders of modern technology with an undercurrent of superiority. When did this start, In 1992 I vaguely remember it being similar but I was only 7 or so so can't really say.

Was it the same in the 1950's or 15 th century for example?

My f[SIZE="2"]u[/SIZE]cking christ - it's almost like technology is constantly advancing and improving.

What an amazing observation.

You've missed the point, how has our attitude to improving technology changed, or has it been more or less the same throughout history.

For example old people's attitude to young people has always been the same. There are written documents of monks over a thousand years ago describing how "young people today have lost their way , they don't respect their elders the way they used to, they need to get the values we had when we were young".

Ash.J.Williams

if 300mb of RAM was enough for KIT it's enough for anyone!

Mr.Crinklewood

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Its ok to have a technological hard on from time to time.

Hopefully it gets a few bytes.

Gurgle

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Well, what about the invention of new farming methods, agriculture etc? These effected everyone.

But these methods have been slow incremental development over thousands of years. Knowledge of improved farming methods migrated across europe for example, but the fine details evolved to suit the crops / animals / climate of the area.

Take the plough for example. This has been around in one form or another since farming began.

The design of the plough would be handed down from blacksmith to apprentice through centuries with small changes here and there when someone had a bright idea.

But those changes wouldn't migrate unless they were exceptional. A plough which allowed a horse to plough 5% more land per hour wouldn't be enough improvement that the blacksmith in the next village over would drop his design and learn this new one.

With mass production, that 5% improvement becomes billboard material. Every plough made after would be based on it.

mikemac1

Thank you Al Gore

You never became President but you did invent the internet so be proud

Dravokivich

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

if 300mb of RAM was enough for KIT it's enough for anyone!

Don't forget Johnny 5 had 500mb of memory too.

Gurgle

Ray Palmer wrote: »

We are truely inventing new things at the moment.

Do you think so?

Name something released in the last 10 years that's really truly new. Not an incremental improvement / upgrade of something older. Something that wouldn't have been possible to build or emulate 10 years ago.

dan1895

Technology today indeed! Sure a fax machine is nothing more than a waffle iron with a phone attached.

Stephen P

Stephen P wrote: »

I remember being told in college in 1999 that a 3GB hard disk is loads and I think RAM was 32MB.

I remember my first PC had like a 200mb HDD, i was like yeeeeharrrrrr
:pac:
When zip drives came along, it was like revolution :pac:

Chuck Stone

Gurgle wrote: »

Name something released in the last 10 years that's really truly new.

I'm having difficulty thinking of any invention that has not been a development of previous ideas.

Radio transmission.

Nuclear power.

Jet engine? (suck, squeeze, bang, blow only in a rotary way?)

TV pictures? (development of radio?)

Difficult question.

Gurgle

Gurgle wrote: »

Do you think so?

Name something released in the last 10 years that's really truly new. Not an incremental improvement / upgrade of something older. Something that wouldn't have been possible to build or emulate 10 years ago.

Xbox Kinect.:P

Gurgle

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm having difficulty thinking of any invention that has not been a development of previous ideas.

Radio transmission.

Nuclear power.

Jet engine? (suck, squeeze, bang, blow only in a rotary way?)

TV pictures? (development of radio?)

Difficult question.

Difficult question even when you misread my post as 100 years

I'd agree with Nuclear power, Jet Engine and TV.
Radio goes back a bit further.

On the 100 year list: computers, birth control pill, internet (computer networks in general), fibre optics, various plastics...

There's loads more, but not that many really important ones.

eth0

Spending 600e worth of dole money on some iProduct made by slave workers in China and barely knowing how to use it / not having a clue how it works makes you a better person

_feedback_

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I was trying to explain 'before the internet' to my niece and nephew and told them that the nearest thing to it was having the Encyclopaedia Britannica book collection at home or off down to the library and they were like > :eek::eek:

I remember before we had internet but had a PC, the Encarta encyclopedia was amaaaazing. "So, you can just type something in there and it will give you information on it? Photos? Video? Mad that is".

Wetbench4

Its said the technology advances exponentially, so the advances made over two years now, might have taking a decade 20 years ago. Thats mad when you think about it.

jester77

Technology these days is fantastic.

Phones are mini computers with always on access to the internet. When I was growing up there was no internet or even mobile phones, TV consisted of 2 channels (6 if you were really lucky) and getting access to **** material was nigh on impossible.

who the fug

OldGoat wrote: »

Pft, the wheel was pretty crap till the axel came along.

Till your man came up with the grease, the axel was not much use

davet82

any remember that program Beyond 2000?

I'd love to watch a few episodes now and see how right or wrong they got how would we be living

bonzodog2

davet82 wrote: »

any remember that program Beyond 2000?

I'd love to watch a few episodes now and see how right or wrong they got how would we be living

Here's one from 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLdiF1zZnE

Colmustard

Any tech development is amazing IMO and it started when man invented the spear.