Voluntarily being surveilled and profiled 24/7.
I think a 1970s American would get a kick out these:
- Global warming is real and worse than you think and no it’s not going to be addressed.
- Those gas prices are going no where but up.
- Anyway we decided that all cars will be F350s.
- I hope you like pocket electronics because those are literally the only things that will seem truly futuristic to you. Everything else? Pretty much the same. Yep. We don’t even live longer.
Ah, ah, ah, “we” decided?
1992 born but I’ve said to my mom crazy how nothings changed. Updated to work the same as before but other than that attempts to change everything is a major flaw.
Immediately accessible on demand free pornography.
So you’re stealing Playboy magazines from the newsstand? Or…?
Still having no public health care.
Today’s is worst than 1970’s
Modern video games.
If you sent, say, a huge RPG or simulation game back in time, or even Minecraft, anyone who understood computation would drop their jaw. What a computer can render 90 times a second still kinda drops my jaw, when I think about it.
We got most of the tech from the jetsons ppl could envision in the early 1960s (video calls, smartphones, smart watches, smart homes), but still don’t have flying cars, cloud cities, robot maids, and moving sidewalks going everywhere.
I have a robot maid, it just only vacuums and mops. They have them with an arm that can pick up light objects too, they are just expensive.
flying cars are not going to happen. they’re a menace as they are, we don’t need to give people 6dof. they’re also not really futuristic, it’s just the car brained American vision of the future.
The Patch was hypothesized in 1988 and first documented in 1997, by a passing yacht racer. Research on the patch began in earnest in 2009.
Estimates on the size are still nebulous, as it continues to expand and shift. But I doubt anyone in the 1970s was predicting a patch of trash twice the size of Texas would appear in the Pacific Ocean over the next 50 years.
This was actually renamed to the Great American Garbage Patch
Also wish more effort and attention went into countries coming together to clean this up, and simultaneously stop any new trash from entering into our waters.
Trump renamed something again?!
- there’s now scientists working on myco-remediation creating controlled fungi that can eat plastics and polymers. 🤓
What happens if this fungi comes in contact with humans full of microplastics?
Then you get a cleansing and then you go to the er and call yourself a dumbass and then hope to god the intravenous antifungal work.
No, honestly I don’t know but you can buy a syringe of liquid culture that contains a strain of a plastic eating mushroom and the warning on the site is to not store it in a plastic fridge. You could find the plastic pile and then toss a jar of that culture on it and then toss your boat because it’s probably been hit with the liquid culture.
Not related to technology. Walking into an airport to greet or to say Bon Voyage to people at the gate!!! Now, the fucking things are like prisons!
LLMs - you can just talk to your computer. I used computers since the 90s and that has always been the ultimate scifi dream and it’s here.
You can talk to dumb chatbots since the nineties. Now they can into grammar, wow.
(I know they are way better now. But the basic fact stands.)
It’s a little bit more than that, I would say at this point.
As I said somewhere else I’m not really into LLMs, so I try to stay neutral…
I’m currently using Astra a little bit more, and it’s really interesting to see how these models work these days. You increasingly feel the (self-)reinforcement learning on these models. They developed an interesting code style (not very human…). Also the way it explores the code (and other stuff) like writing scripts on the fly to either explore or monitor, and even writing scripts to build the sourcefiles. And well, it definitely currently reshapes software development…
As much as I have a love-hate relationship with these because of all the negative effects (And there are countless ones), it’s quite impressive what current Frontier models can do at this time, with very little input.
I wouldn’t say that’s crazier than a 70’s nerds wildest dreams. In the 70’s they thought talking to your computer was just around the corner. They would more likely be amazed that it took so long.
They did that on ST:TOS.
Having better Internet almost anywhere, in your pocket - compared to the wired Internet even 20, not 50 years ago.
Blue LEDs. We had red and green since the '60s, but blue took until the '90s to figure out and the guy who did so got a Nobel prize for it because that finally meant we could use them for white lights and full-color displays.
I remember when the only color laser pointer was red. Now you have all the colors of the rainbow.
And damn powerful. So powerful you get almost every time wayyy more than allowed/advertised.
Any smartphone is the obvious one.
But, the first black hole was confirmed in 1971. The fact that we’ve taken a picture of one would be incredible, not to mention directly imaging planets in other solar systems.
“Cordless” isn’t much of a word anymore because everything runs on batteries. Battery tech itself has come a long way.
Without any sarcasms… That is some kind of wild shit.
They had that in the 1970s
That we live inside a dystopia that is a pretty even mix of Brave New World and 1984.
Ugh.
