Voluntarily being surveilled and profiled 24/7.
Having better Internet almost anywhere, in your pocket - compared to the wired Internet even 20, not 50 years ago.
this even blows my mind from a 2020 nerd perspective.
Immediately accessible on demand free pornography.
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.
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.
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.
They are working on robot maids that basically are controlled by humans and see and record EVERYTHING in your house. Not a good idea.
“Cordless” isn’t much of a word anymore because everything runs on batteries. Battery tech itself has come a long way.
People forget that all batteries, even the boring stuff like alkaline batteries, have advanced big time since the 1970s.
Flashlights have also advanced dramatically. Flashlights in the 70s and 80s sucked ass compared to the ones we have today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was born in the early 80s. Things HAVE changed big time. A lot of things that we do not see on a daily basis that have changed majorly. Medical tech is one. most people do not work in the medical field and do not pay much attention to it (I am one of them!) but the sheer amount of stuff that has changed in medicine is staggering.
Like transportation hasn’t changed though. It’s all update to function exactly the same.
Not everything has stayed the same but a few things of our daily lives that we thought were going to be more extravagant or technology driven aren’t and now some of the things that have technologocal advances we wonder why the fuck they need them, like toasters. Why the fuck does a toaster need Bluetooth?
Energy Crisis 2.0
Ah, ah, ah, “we” decided?
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.
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.
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.)
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.
They did that on ST:TOS.
That we live inside a dystopia that is a pretty even mix of Brave Nee World and 1984.
Ugh.
All video graphics after Pong’s.
Without any sarcasms… That is some kind of wild shit.
They had that in the 1970s
This is the opposite. I was watching the transformers 40th anniversary in the theatre with my son and noticed in the 80’s we had such a hard on for hover boards. In 2005 on earth Daniel had one. In back to the future it was 2015 and they had hoverboards.
Man we fucked up. I want my hoverboard.
