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How often we forget we live in a Magical Sci-Fi world of tomorrow.

Locut0s

Locut0s

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We love to complain but lets be honest, the following scenario in the 1960s or 70s? You'd fucking cream your pants at these ideas.

Hmm I'm hungry, I feel like going to someplace new this weekend. Haven't had Indian in a while let's see what's new and good. Off to Google to look up ALL the local Indian restaurants with hundreds of user reviews. Hmm that one looks good but I know that area and don't remember ever seeing it. Copy, paste address into Google maps, go to street view. Oh RIGHT I know exactly where that is, right next to that flower shop, right. Oh and that parking lot across the way looks convenient too, hard to find parking around there. Let's call to make a reservation. Click on phone number and contact via VOIP, yeah I'd like to make a reservation for this Sunday. Go to your calendar and add it as an event.

On Saturday it pops up on your phone as a reminder. Oh right can't wait to try that place out. Sunday evening driving there, traffic looks bad, shit. TALK TO YOUR FUCKING PHONE to ask for an alternate route around the traffic. RECEIVE TURN BY TURN voice instructions as you go. Get to restaurant and look at menu. Hmm what's that entree, never heard of it before but it looks good. Google name of dish on your phone, receive the whole fucking history of the dish, and the culture it comes from. Wow yeah I'm definitely trying that out.

On your way home a friend notices you are close by BY FUCKING GPS and location sharing and messages you asking if you want to drop by the bar for a few drinks. etc etc....
 
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Newbian said:
It's not that time yet until flying cars are a common thing.
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It really is.
I judge technology on the ability of it to make old people excited about using it. If my mom and dad STILL prefer using a paper map to a GPS, the technology isn't good enough.
Now, when they make star trek transporters, THEN we'll have made it as a society.
 
Locut0s said:
We love to complain but lets be honest, the following scenario in the 1960s or 70s? You'd fucking cream your pants at these ideas.

Hmm I'm hungry, I feel like going to someplace new this weekend. Haven't had Indian in a while let's see what's new and good. Off to Google to look up ALL the local Indian restaurants with hundreds of user reviews. Hmm that one looks good but I know that area and don't remember ever seeing it. Copy, paste address into Google maps, go to street view. Oh RIGHT I know exactly where that is, right next to that flow shop, right. Oh and that parking lot across the way looks convenient too, hard to find parking around there. Let's call to make a reservation. Click on phone number and contact via VOIP, yeah I'd like to make a reservation for this Sunday. Go to your calendar and add it as an event.

On Saturday it pops up on your phone as a reminder. Oh right can't wait to try that place out. Sunday evening driving there, traffic looks bad, shit. TALK TO YOUR FUCKING PHONE to ask for an alternate route around the traffic. RECEIVE TURN BY TURN voice instructions as you go. Get to restaurant and look at menu. Hmm what's that entree, never heard of it before but it looks good. Google name of dish on your phone, receive the whole fucking history of the dish, and the culture it comes from. Wow yeah I'm definitely trying that out.

On your way home a friend notices you are close by BY FUCKING GPS and location sharing and messages you asking if you want to drop by the bar for a few drinks. etc etc....
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Is that REALLY the facet of modern technology that gave you an oh wow moment?
Lol. In the sixties, if you want to eat Indian, You call up Amir (on your land line unless you caught him washing his car outside) who lives down the street and invite yourself to dinner. You want to know about the culture? Ask a real live person who lived there.
 
Was just thinking about that the other day as I watched the Siri commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD7sZdAaS2M

A small device in your hands, with a screen that has pixels so small your eyes can't see them, takes voice commands and gives you weather, GPS, an 8 megapixel stills camera, and a 1080p video camera. You can call anywhere in the world and video chat with people too using the front or rear camera.

We have Roombas to vacuum, Scoobas to mop, Lawnbotts to mow, Verros to clean the pool. Heated driveways to melt the snow and cars with traction control so it feels like you're driving with mud. You can fly anywhere in the country in less than a day. You can drive up to a variety of restaurants, ask for food, drive around, and get it hot and (questionably)fresh within minutes. I watch Netflix movies on my TV without having to go down to Blockbuster. It goes on and on.

And yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

:awe:
 
Kaido said:
Was just thinking about that the other day as I watched the Siri commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD7sZdAaS2M

A small device in your hands, with a screen that has pixels so small your eyes can't see them, takes voice commands and gives you weather, GPS, an 8 megapixel stills camera, and a 1080p video camera. You can call anywhere in the world and video chat with people too using the front or rear camera.

We have Roombas to vacuum, Scoobas to mop, Lawnbotts to mow, Verros to clean the pool. Heated driveways to melt the snow and cars with traction control so it feels like you're driving with mud. You can fly anywhere in the country in less than a day. You can drive up to a variety of restaurants, ask for food, drive around, and get it hot and (questionably)fresh within minutes. I watch Netflix movies on my TV without having to go down to Blockbuster. It goes on and on.

And yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

:awe:
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The promised easy life is a sham. Instead of robots and computers doing our work, so we can take it easy, they just do things faster, and more is expected of us. Nothing's changed since the 1940s, except for taste. That's been in almost linear decline the whole time :^S
 
We're certainly getting there. Technology will be open to everyone when you can simply tell it what you want in natural language have it come to pass. This Siri thing on the iPhone 4s looks like a step in that direction. Voice recognition in general seems to have come a long way since the last time I paid any attention to it. I was experimenting with the google map app on my bionic today and it never missed a location despite my rather heavy southern accent. The last time I tried any kind of voice recognition software it resulted in nothing but mistakes.

I'm most impressed by the fact that we've pretty much fully realized the pocket computer in the last decade.
 
The holodeck from Star Trek will stop all complaints around the world. Assuming everyone can access one of course.
 
yeah, we didn't get a tv until i was 5 or 6 years old, and it was a black/white
we didn't get a tv with a remote until 1979
 
SlitheryDee said:
We're certainly getting there. Technology will be open to everyone when you can simply tell it what you want in natural language have it come to pass. This Siri thing on the iPhone 4s looks like a step in that direction. Voice recognition in general seems to have come a long way since the last time I paid any attention to it. I was experimenting with the google map app on my bionic today and it never missed a location despite my rather heavy southern accent. The last time I tried any kind of voice recognition software it resulted in nothing but mistakes.

I'm most impressed by the fact that we've pretty much fully realized the pocket computer in the last decade.
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Just imagine if they hookup Siri to Amazon Prime - "Siri, I want a box of Cheerios on my doorstep tomorrow. Make it so." :awe:

Also, there's an amazing Google Translate app that lets you talk in your language, and it writes it out, then converts it to text & speech in another language. So you can speak English and have it spit out Japanese if you want. I also had app awhile ago that did OCR on live video, sort of an augmented reality, and would translate Spanish words to English - so you could hold it up to a menu or sign and it would erase it on the screen and overlay it with English. Pretty crazy.
 
Kaido said:
We have Roombas to vacuum, Scoobas to mop, Lawnbotts to mow, Verros to clean the pool. Heated driveways to melt the snow and cars with traction control so it feels like you're driving with mud.
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No wonder fewer folks are getting married.
 
Kaido said:
Was just thinking about that the other day as I watched the Siri commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD7sZdAaS2M

A small device in your hands, with a screen that has pixels so small your eyes can't see them, takes voice commands and gives you weather, GPS, an 8 megapixel stills camera, and a 1080p video camera. You can call anywhere in the world and video chat with people too using the front or rear camera.

We have Roombas to vacuum, Scoobas to mop, Lawnbotts to mow, Verros to clean the pool. Heated driveways to melt the snow and cars with traction control so it feels like you're driving with mud. You can fly anywhere in the country in less than a day. You can drive up to a variety of restaurants, ask for food, drive around, and get it hot and (questionably)fresh within minutes. I watch Netflix movies on my TV without having to go down to Blockbuster. It goes on and on.

And yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

:awe:
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I was going to link the Louis C.K. video.

Good stuff. :thumbsup:
 
it really is quite amazing if you take yourself out of context and think about it. and we've only gotten started.
 
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