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What did you think the future was going to look like?

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Spenser4Hire

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In the past how did you think the future would look like around the year 2014? Did you ever expect it to look like anything it is like to-day?
 
Spenser4Hire said:
In the past how did you think the future would look like around the year 2014? Did you ever expect it to look like anything it is like to-day?
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If you would have told me in 1994 that I would have a phone in my pocket with a dual core 1.2 Ghz CPU I would have laughed. I just didn't expect the sheer explosion in miniaturization of technology with smart phones and tablets.
 
I expected flying cars, real artificial intelligence, colonies on Mars, and no president anything like George W. Bush.
 
Brovane said:
Oh my god the P5 60Mhz, the first Pentium.
It is all about the Pentiums - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
I remember talking to my friends Dad in 1993 who was a engineer. He told me that eventually we would have computer systems with more than 1-CPU in them. I could hardly comprehend having more than 1 CPU when a fast computer was like 486-66.
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Hah...I was all about saving money so I stayed on the 25Mhz system clock. My first pentium was a P75Mhz.... Still had the instruction set and was far better at processing graphics...I remember playing the first Need For Speed by EA from dos and being blown away by the graphics.

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Well, now that I know how the corporations and the government love to screw everything up like the space program for instance, I had expected us to already have permanent Moon and Mars bases by now. So we are at least 40 years behind where I thought we should be in that respect. But the military gets trillions of dollars it can misplace and misappropriate on a whim with no accountability or oversight, and yet the sheeple don't even utter a single peep about being completely screwed over in the process. If just half of the funds the military lost and wasted in the last 60 years had gone to the space program instead, we would already have those space bases and more and be so far ahead of the other countries technologically and resource wise, they could never hope to catch up.
 
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Scarpozzi said:
Hah...I was all about saving money so I stayed on the 25Mhz system clock. My first pentium was a P75Mhz.... Still had the instruction set and was far better at processing graphics...I remember playing the first Need For Speed by EA from dos and being blown away by the graphics.

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That game was seriously tits back in the day
 
Scarpozzi said:
Hah...I was all about saving money so I stayed on the 25Mhz system clock. My first pentium was a P75Mhz.... Still had the instruction set and was far better at processing graphics...I remember playing the first Need For Speed by EA from dos and being blown away by the graphics.

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I didn't have Need for Speed, but one of my friends did. I did get NFS2 though. And, instantly fell in love with the McLaren F1. Still my favorite car of all time.
 
Scarpozzi said:
Hah...I was all about saving money so I stayed on the 25Mhz system clock. My first pentium was a P75Mhz.... Still had the instruction set and was far better at processing graphics...I remember playing the first Need For Speed by EA from dos and being blown away by the graphics.

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In 1993 I upgraded from a 386-40 to a 486-33 with a VESA Local Bus for my IDE controller and Video Card. I had a Viper Video Card with 2MB of ram and a 17" CRT monitor that was gigantic.

I stayed on that system for a while until I went to a P133Mhz. I thought that was really quick. 🙂
 
smackababy said:
I didn't have Need for Speed, but one of my friends did. I did get NFS2 though. And, instantly fell in love with the McLaren F1. Still my favorite car of all time.
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Wow. I thought I was the only who felt that NFS2/NFS2se was the best racing game of all time.

Too bad I can't install/play it anywhere...
 
I expected there to be colonies on the moon and Mars by now. Where's my fricken flying car? Self driving cars should already be in place. Solar power, geothermal power, wind power and tidal power should represent 60% of power production.
 
I never speculated on the future. I just took it as it came. I've always preferred history for my fantasy time.
 
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