My main wonder is if mechanical augmentations and cybernetics will get to the point where they're like tattoos. That's something I could see telling my kids "you can't have a cybernetic eye until you're 18" or "no cybernetics above the neck or below your forearms, employers don't like it"
But realistically, it's going to be something we never thought of. Like I could have sat for hours thinking "what's the thing that will make me feel old because I don't understand it and young people think it's amazing?" and never come up with something as startlingly mundane as pewdiepie
Yeah this is why so many stories set in the future retroactively become stupid as hell.
Way back when, there were various stories involving things like flying cars, but little to nothing involving increasingly compact computers.
they actually made the computers bigger in the stories
The computer took up a whole room, and not only had a dictionary, thesaurus, and atlas on it, but it also showed you the news of the day! You could even use it to buy things from places! All it cost was three times as much as your car and the biggest bedroom in your house.
The internet and wifi were essentially background radiation to a ton of great sci fi, and that's how we use them in real life. No big deal just "oh yeah I can look this up wirelessly on an enormous database that knows everything"
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
If Asimov were still alive, how fucken JAZZED do you think he would be about things like Google and Watson?
My main wonder is if mechanical augmentations and cybernetics will get to the point where they're like tattoos. That's something I could see telling my kids "you can't have a cybernetic eye until you're 18" or "no cybernetics above the neck or below your forearms, employers don't like it"
But realistically, it's going to be something we never thought of. Like I could have sat for hours thinking "what's the thing that will make me feel old because I don't understand it and young people think it's amazing?" and never come up with something as startlingly mundane as pewdiepie
Yeah this is why so many stories set in the future retroactively become stupid as hell.
Way back when, there were various stories involving things like flying cars, but little to nothing involving increasingly compact computers.
Sci-Fi tended to revolve around greater increases in power generation rather than miniaturization.
I think the best example of scifi computing completely missing microchips is Asimov's short story The Last Question, in which the titular question about entropy is posed to successive iterations of supercomputers, starting with a massive orbital analog computer built in a vast ring around the earth.
To Asimov's credit he did anticipate some form of miniaturization, but he was still pretty far off the mark:
In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called. They had been growing in size steadily for a thousand years and then, all at once, came refinement. In place of transistors had come molecular valves so that even the largest Planetary AC could be put into a space only half the volume of a spaceship.
I think the best example of scifi computing completely missing microchips is Asimov's short story The Last Question, in which the titular question about entropy is posed to successive iterations of supercomputers, starting with a massive orbital analog computer built in a vast ring around the earth.
To Asimov's credit he did anticipate some form of miniaturization, but he was still pretty far off the mark:
In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called. They had been growing in size steadily for a thousand years and then, all at once, came refinement. In place of transistors had come molecular valves so that even the largest Planetary AC could be put into a space only half the volume of a spaceship.
The MULTIVAC story was also written back when vacuum tubes were still a thing and transistors were just starting to replace them. If you were to take the 1,750,000,000 transistors in a modern CPU and replaced them with vacuum tubes that let's say take up 2 square inches each, they would occupy 0.87 square miles and that's without accounting for the additional space of the supporting circuitry. With hindsight, I think the failure was mostly in his vast underestimation of how fast the miniaturization would occur. Of course there's also the fact he was stuck on the idea of only needing a single computer for all of humanity.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
my favorite part of missed technology in scifi is looking at movies from the 70s and 80s, with amazing goddamned set design and world building, like 2001 or Aliens or whatever. Just incredible fucking detail poured into all of the sets, with amazing life and every single goddamned inch of it planned out and realized.
And every screen is a 4:3 CRT with the tell-tale bulge.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
my favorite part of missed technology in scifi is looking at movies from the 70s and 80s, with amazing goddamned set design and world building, like 2001 or Aliens or whatever. Just incredible fucking detail poured into all of the sets, with amazing life and every single goddamned inch of it planned out and realized.
And every screen is a 4:3 CRT with the tell-tale bulge.
I love this aesthetic
I couldn't play the game for very long but I loved that they just fully committed to it in Alien Isolation
I just want those computers from Logan's Run that let me teleport to people's rooms that want to have casual sex.
I mean, I'd already be dead in that world because I'm over 30, but the tech seems to, you know, energize molecules is pretty neat. Alternatively, Star Trek teleporting.
I just want those computers from Logan's Run that let me teleport to people's rooms that want to have casual sex.
I mean, I'd already be dead in that world because I'm over 30, but the tech seems to, you know, energize molecules is pretty neat. Alternatively, Star Trek teleporting.
Screens were increasingly used in schools during my education, and I have no reason to believe that they dialed it back since then. Staying away from electronics, beneficial or not, is becoming difficult to put into practice.
I'm nominally an adult, and I ended up with a touchscreen on my telephone against my feeble objections.
My main wonder is if mechanical augmentations and cybernetics will get to the point where they're like tattoos. That's something I could see telling my kids "you can't have a cybernetic eye until you're 18" or "no cybernetics above the neck or below your forearms, employers don't like it"
But realistically, it's going to be something we never thought of. Like I could have sat for hours thinking "what's the thing that will make me feel old because I don't understand it and young people think it's amazing?" and never come up with something as startlingly mundane as pewdiepie
Yeah this is why so many stories set in the future retroactively become stupid as hell.
Way back when, there were various stories involving things like flying cars, but little to nothing involving increasingly compact computers.
they actually made the computers bigger in the stories
"I predict in the future, computers will grow so huge and expensive that only the 6 richest kings of Europe can afford them."
Man, rewatching movies every day. That used to be a thing.
I did that, like, one time.
I really really liked Beauty and the Beast.
I had this weird realization not too long ago where I thought about what my parents' childhoods were like
And they only got to watch a movie once, maybe twice if it was in theaters, and then that was it
There was a good chance you might never see that movie again, if they didn't air it on television! At least that was what they figured
So much of my early childhood was devoted to watching the same stuff over and over again, really getting into it, because I liked it so why wouldn't I want to see it again?
To my mother this was a completely foreign concept when I was a toddler
Man, rewatching movies every day. That used to be a thing.
I did that, like, one time.
I really really liked Beauty and the Beast.
Funny thing I noticed on multiple iterations of B&tB, was that if you slow it down frame by frame when Gaston gets thrown off the roof, you'll see a skull in his eyes.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
I was leaving for work this morning and found out someone had pinned my very first chick tract to my apartment door!
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
What would be some classic smutty sci-fi
If we're talking movies, Barbarella is basically the quintisential smutty sci-fi.
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masterofmetroidHave you ever looked at a worldand seen it as a kind of challenge?Registered Userregular
don't forget the hunter jerk that hangs himself in tarzan
and how scar gets eaten by hyenas
and something poetic that happens to the guy in hunchback
A gargoyle he's hanging on comes to life with red glowing eyes and tosses him off of Notre Dame into both the ground and the rivers of molten lead already spilled in it's defense against the corrupt soldiers he commanded
It's basically "God is fed up with your shit and is casting you into Hell" and i love Hunchback of Notre Dame so much you guys
masterofmetroid on
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
here is an incomplete list of things I was not allowed to imbibe when I was a kid:
the simpsons
teenage mutant ninja turtles
GI Joe
Transformers
StarCraft
Pokémon
Futurama
He-Man
X-Men
Captain Planet
I wasn't allowed to watch anything deemed intellectually insulting. So my list wasn't too dissimilar - smurfs/my little pony/he-man/etc? Right out. The entire Monty python ouvre, Warner Bros cartoons, and the Simpsons*, however, were a-ok.
Also the amount of absolutely smutty sci-fi and classic literature they had on their bookshelves was educational, to say the least.
* (once my mother actually watched some and realised it wasn't just about a skateboarding ten year old)
What would be some classic smutty sci-fi
If we're talking movies, Barbarella is basically the quintisential smutty sci-fi.
More like Dedslow... Slowrekka?
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
don't forget the hunter jerk that hangs himself in tarzan
and how scar gets eaten by hyenas
and something poetic that happens to the guy in hunchback
A gargoyle he's hanging on come to life with red glowing eyes and tosses him off of Notre Dame into both the ground and the rivers of molten lead already spilled in it's defense against the corrupt soldiers he commanded
It's basically "God is fed up with your shit and is casting you into Hell" and i love Hunchback of Notre Dame so much you guys
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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people who wrote good sci-fi in the 70's and 80's predicted shit like the internet and wifi
The computer took up a whole room, and not only had a dictionary, thesaurus, and atlas on it, but it also showed you the news of the day! You could even use it to buy things from places! All it cost was three times as much as your car and the biggest bedroom in your house.
Sci-Fi tended to revolve around greater increases in power generation rather than miniaturization.
To Asimov's credit he did anticipate some form of miniaturization, but he was still pretty far off the mark:
The MULTIVAC story was also written back when vacuum tubes were still a thing and transistors were just starting to replace them. If you were to take the 1,750,000,000 transistors in a modern CPU and replaced them with vacuum tubes that let's say take up 2 square inches each, they would occupy 0.87 square miles and that's without accounting for the additional space of the supporting circuitry. With hindsight, I think the failure was mostly in his vast underestimation of how fast the miniaturization would occur. Of course there's also the fact he was stuck on the idea of only needing a single computer for all of humanity.
And every screen is a 4:3 CRT with the tell-tale bulge.
I love this aesthetic
I couldn't play the game for very long but I loved that they just fully committed to it in Alien Isolation
I mean, I'd already be dead in that world because I'm over 30, but the tech seems to, you know, energize molecules is pretty neat. Alternatively, Star Trek teleporting.
what a time to be alive
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I'm nominally an adult, and I ended up with a touchscreen on my telephone against my feeble objections.
"I predict in the future, computers will grow so huge and expensive that only the 6 richest kings of Europe can afford them."
I did that, like, one time.
I really really liked Beauty and the Beast.
I had this weird realization not too long ago where I thought about what my parents' childhoods were like
And they only got to watch a movie once, maybe twice if it was in theaters, and then that was it
There was a good chance you might never see that movie again, if they didn't air it on television! At least that was what they figured
So much of my early childhood was devoted to watching the same stuff over and over again, really getting into it, because I liked it so why wouldn't I want to see it again?
To my mother this was a completely foreign concept when I was a toddler
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I still do that because I need something going on in the background while I work.
Funny thing I noticed on multiple iterations of B&tB, was that if you slow it down frame by frame when Gaston gets thrown off the roof, you'll see a skull in his eyes.
It appears to be about the dangers of Halloween.
And is entirely in Spanish.
Nice try Zarflax, Satan wins again!
Steam
Mostly from falling.
and how scar gets eaten by hyenas
and something poetic that happens to the guy in hunchback
What would be some classic smutty sci-fi
I remember being really, really intrigued by the Alien design
big fan of walking dicks eh?
very shortly thereafter I was in Trouble with my mother for reading Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
my dad did give me a bunch of Vonnegut and Philip José Farmer stuff to read afterwards, though
that's probably why I'm so fucked up now!
I WASN'T READY, DAD, I WASN'T READY FOR THAT
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/
Don't forget Dr Facilier, who literally gets dragged into hell.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/
Zardoz?
Not going to link to an IMDB, if you want to know that badly, it's on you.
Pretty sure Logan's Run had some pretty gratuitous sex and nudity, so maybe that could count as smutty.
If we're talking movies, Barbarella is basically the quintisential smutty sci-fi.
It's basically "God is fed up with your shit and is casting you into Hell" and i love Hunchback of Notre Dame so much you guys
More like Dedslow... Slowrekka?
tony jay
Maleficient gets stabbed in the fucking heart. On screen.
Yeah, but she was a dragon at the time so nobody cared.
The poor, unfortunate soul.
I mean, don't be. But you should be.