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Post by Sylverwolfe on Jan 25, 2015 20:54:22 GMT -7
When I lived alone, One of my pastimes was to re-watch Blade Runner. I didn't have it handy to watch it on New Year's this year, but I did watch it again. My younger brother has never sat all the way through it. I think visually it is one of the most spectacular science fiction movies. Ridley Scott had quite a vision of 2019 back in 1981 when he was filming it. (released in 1982.) If you haven't watched it, watch it. Stick with the story. It is like an old 1930's detective film set in the future. Film Noir meets Sci-Fi.
We are now in the year when we can look at Back to the Future Part II and discredit it too. Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg had visually compelling visions of two thousand teens as well.
I wanna know: Where are all the flying cars?! Where are the telephones which are like TV's?
I am STILL waiting on one of those. I don't want to hear "oh we already have that." Well yeah, technically, yes they already exist using the computer, but that answer is phooey! Why? Well because in these movies about the future TV telephones are readily available, everyone has one and uses one; the old, the young, the poor, the rich, the able and the disabled. It isn't something tech savvy nerds only use in those movies. It is accessible by the masses for the masses. If I had a visual telephone I would probably talk to people more than I do when I answer the phone.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Jan 26, 2015 7:19:30 GMT -7
I know, right?
They tease us with all this fancy schmancy stuff, and it's still not here.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Feb 7, 2015 17:33:53 GMT -7
My guess is that the flying car is not as advanced as the movies portray. They have a Harrier Jet when can hover and take off vertically. That could be used in a flying car but it would consume vast amounts of fuel. But there is a more practical reason. People have a hard enough time dealing with 2 dimensional navigation. Left, right, forward, reverse. There are constant crashes. With added Up and down it could be far worse. The other issue I think is the fact that after a collision occurs those vehicles have nowhere else to go but down.
I think Power lacing shoes, Hologram TV's, Self drying jackets, hovering skateboards and stuff like that would be really cool. It is surprising to see how little things have changed in 30 years.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Feb 8, 2015 7:04:45 GMT -7
Hologram TVs would be really awesome.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Mar 2, 2015 4:15:19 GMT -7
Hologram TVs would be really awesome. Why Yes, yes they would. I have been holding out for that one too. I bet it could be done if they were to make the screen more like a semicircular bow and project the holograms forward of it, say in the focal point created by said shape. The advantage as well would be that anyone in the room that sat within view of the semicircle screen would probably have "the best seat in the house." Or everyone would be able to see the hologram really easily.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Mar 2, 2015 7:21:35 GMT -7
I know that there's been one group making uber thin TVs in a manner similar to cuttlefish skin.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Mar 3, 2015 23:13:17 GMT -7
In one way it is dizzying what they are trying to do. I am not sure why they would want something wafer thin. It just seems to me that would be easier to chip and break, but I could be wrong. I am sure it can't be flexible. Those liquid crystals inside would be messed up. My luck I would go to hang it on the stud on my wall and the nail would bend and I would smash the brand new TV. Mine are classic ones though. Until they are just no longer receiving signal or they break once and for all, I am not ditching my low-definition picture tube TV's. I am not made of money to buy a new one.
I would have never guessed when I had my first computer, an Atari 800, that in 30 years we would be carrying telephones in our pockets which could outstrip the computational skills of it, let alone the third computer I had in the mid 1990's. I can't believe you can be anywhere and look up something on it. It settles more arguments and debates about minutiae such as grammar rules or other idle debates I have with my spirited family.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Mar 4, 2015 7:29:20 GMT -7
That's true.
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