We only have 3 years left until this!
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
memesIdk, if you look at it a certain way, we just used radios to transfer instead of light.
The highwaisted pants are already back in and the copper belt could be a flex.
We have three years to crack this mullet though. We need to get moving.
This is just the end of halt and catch fire.
Doesn't look that far off from a lot of Unix socks posts with the color stripes between the user and multiple monitors.
That's how I do it when I'm on ketamine
"Strap in!"
Oh man, I can't wait!
The Network-Over-CareBear-Stare-Protocol will be much faster, more reliable, and more secure than ethernet and wifi!
We’re actually ahead of schedule. That’s how I show the computer my fake ID. McLovin, organ donor, Hawaii.
Kids, gather round. Grampa Simpson needs to tell you something about the times as they was.
Computer concepts that structure our everyday lives were not just unknown to everybody you knew, for most of them they simply made no sense.
Desktop, mouse, file folder (or if 1337, ‘directory’), pixel, distributed, packets - hell the concept of ‘online’ (or “cyberspace” to my peeps. Sup y’all) was more than they cared to grasp and they would just tune out and immediately forget anything you’d said about it.
When this picture was conceived, the amount of people who used computers to talk to other people on a daily basis would have fit in a sportsball stadium. The rest of us lucky enough to have some beige box to kick around were only dreaming. AOL was still half a decade away.
Everyone else in the world - and definitely all of your teachers, parents, extended family, any grown up not already a maths graduate - had NO idea, didn’t want to know, and thought you were weird for caring.
OK, but this was Unix world magazine...
This is 100% accurate.
I grew up in the sprawling suburbs where every other kid had a moped and a swimming pool, but next to nobody had a computer.
My giant middle school, with thousands of kids had a computer club. And there was a grand total of 8 of us computer-owning nerds. Not to mention my Apple ][e cost something $4000 (USD) in todays money.
Accurate
They got the date right too!
You guys haven't been wearing your leftover Xmas tinsel as a hat?
I'm not gonna comment on the fashion, as I'm sure that can't be accurately predicted (hell, I'm not outruling that this prediction might prove accurate in three years..)
But have you noticed that all sci-fi movies have fucking terrible UIs and means of interacting with computers?
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You'd be fucking exhausted and crying from the muscle strain.
Keyboard and mouse have been standard for half a century now, and for a good reason. Something else will probably replace it at some point, but YMCA-dancing the instructions will not be it.
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You'd be fucking exhausted.
I like to think he's just fucking extra. If you rewatch the scene, another dude is working on a pretty normal computer setup, sitting at a desk, not flailing around wildly, normal sized monitor (except the monitor is transparent), etc. He seems to have the option to do gesture interaction too as he selects and moves some images with his pinky pointed at the screen, but seems like there is still a keyboard-like or touchpad interface on the desk. Then they transfer data over with a weird physical drive to Tom Cruise's giant curved monitor and gesture controlled setup using the gloves. He's just an early adopter into more experimental tech formats, like the rich kids who had the power glove for the Nintendo, or someone who has a 8k 60inch curved monitor. I bet even the amount of movements he is putting into the gestures is entirely unnecessary and over the top. He just thinks it's cool.
On the other hand you have Star Trek, which basically invented our modern computing interfaces that aren’t keyboard and mouse.
Yup, they just never figured out to have fuses and relays in the instrument panels. No wonder Geordi is blind.
The sparks are just the UI telling you someone is attacking. Think of it like force feedback on a controller.
There’s an episode of DS9 where they use pen-based computing for a scene. It’s hilarious.
sometimes you gotta give your smartphone a bit of screen time. Its good for it.
This was some prophet's interpretation of what later became Linux socks.
losers using keyboard and mouse or even touchscreen, all my homies use rainbow pads, gayest and best eay to use the Internet
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I'm so excited! I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it! Oooh, yeah!
What song is this
I'm so excited.
Please calm down then.
And then try to answer the question.
"You are sad," the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a song to comfort you."
"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
"It's long," said the Knight, "but very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it—either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else—"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'."
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed.
"That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'."
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways And Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!"
"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting On A Gate': and the tune's my own invention."
Yeah I see, but what is the song called?
The pointer sisters, OK!
Right on, daddy-o!
Damn you, now I have that song in my head.
Tune wedgie!
Hahaha, I've never heard this term before, it's perfect!
Doin' the neutron dance?
...no way to control it, it's totally automatic; all of my defenses are down!..
The best part is that its real and reading the article does nothing to explain what is going on in the picture.
So it might just be what some photographer randomly thought up.
When your only tool is the refraction of light, etc.
What. What the fuck is that even supposed to be?
Post-futurism QR code scanning?
"i showed u my data chits. Pls respond"
I do believe CRTs are going to make a comeback.
But for a vastly different reason.
well .... whats the reason? :3
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220082358A1/en
As much as I want them to, I don’t think they will. Incredibly expensive to retool manufacturing to produce the tubes again. Who knows though maybe a rich retro gamer would invest.
Dare I ask?
Alien aesthetics mainly, it goes well with the oligarchic world order.
Is that an ashtray in the 2nd GIF, bottom-left?
Yes.
Smoking was mandatory back then in the future.
Love me some cassette futurism.
Super smash bros competitions, obviously.
Close. HERF guns.
Hans-exclusive radical feminists?
The original post: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399
In a thread of similar posts featuring retro-computer advertisements.
For some reason it doesn't feel too far off from scanning QR codes.
Bluetooth and Wifi are also what that idea might be. Wirelessly moving data from a storage device to your PC.
Well, Bluetooth has been around for over a quarter century and it's still the same old unreliable, roll a six to start standard it ever was. The sooner we switch to rainbow lasers the better
Except that she's smiling while she does it.
Yep.
+screen casting
+app interactions
I'm already growing my hair out in preparation 👍
Kapton Tape belt is ready to go!
But do you have an all-white one-piece pant suit?
The haircut is just Yolandi’s cut dyed silver. So we’re halfway there.
we are kinda there: bunch of nonsense input to get nonsense outputs from multiple computers
My cousin's had wigs like that in the 80's. It was fantastic.
Was your cousin's name Andy Warhol?
I think we are still on track.
WTFuck is that hair?
It's a late 20's trend that should be starting up any day now.
Hahahahaha
I like the idea of hairstyles following technology. If vr/ar goggles/helmets become mainstream daily wear the styles would morph to fit.
Awesome
Ok can do it right now.
The JoyCon 3.
Always amazes me the lack of imagination in media like this.
3 generic CRTs - like you couldn't envision a single, wide, curved flat screen?
I suppose she's supposed to be holding oddly shaped punched cards? (Though punched cards were already dead?).
Oh, wait, those are floppies.
Are the floppies projecting data to a screen using color light bars?
Just so bizarre. I thank the creators for giving us this to look back on.
I can answer the question of, "what is she holding?"
It's wireless communicators.
At that time, people really, really wanted wireless communicators like Star Trek and Dick Tracey's watch. It was the generic representation of, "the future" for all things pop art.
Why was she holding them like that? To represent the concept of these three machines communicating with each other via her wireless control/communicators.
"Prismatic" transfers of energy/information was actually a common trope in sci fi and computer book art all the way into the 1990s. Watch some old black and white sci-fi TV shows and you'll see beams like that everywhere.
How much budget do you think they had to do this? Someone had the wig from a costume already, they borrowed the jumpsuit from a friend, scrounged up what they could in the office, printed off a """'calendar""""", and had an intern add the rays once the photo was developed.
Even if they had the imagination, they simply didn't have the time and resources to do anything.
They could have at least turned the CRTs on.
...or maybe that's what's happening.
They WERE on, but the magic handhelds are siphoning all the data and power.
At least they got the multiple display setup right
