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It is unquestionably the future
- Eliezer 17y agoFurther evidence that we're in the future: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Main.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Main.html With the right monitor, glasses, and video card, you can play Batman: Arkham Asylum in 3D.
- trimski 17y agoDuring a discussion with a friend on future technology, someone remarked that for a few days' wages ($200 for an iPod touch) you can now hold a condensed summary of all human knowledge (Wikipedia) in the palm of your hand, with near-instant access to astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, engineering, mathematics, history, sociology, economics, psychology, medicine, technology, literature, art, drama, religion, and boundless other subjects. Yet far more often we use it for trivia and the mundane. The future is wasted on the future.
- sage_joch 17y ago"with near-instant access to astrology" Not that your comment is incorrect, but I'm guessing you meant to say astronomy.
- wallflower 17y ago> Yet far more often we use it for trivia and the mundane I play quizzo (pub quiz) occasionally. The winning team usually gets comps for their bar tab. I am shocked at how many teams will surreptitiously or sometimes brazenly pull out their mobile to google an answer. Where's the fun in that? It's not very often but I love when I can on a hunch/recall trivial knowledge like 'Iris' was the name of the woman in 'Taxi Driver'
- njharman 17y agoquit living in the past, exo-memory is here, now!
- sketerpot 17y agoWhen I was in high school, I got the equivalent of a four-year degree in computer science from the internet because I was bored. It didn't feel like work. The technology is not wasted.
- benmathes 17y agoWhat's not new is that people who are past puberty generally use technology only to make what they were already doing easier. We'll all have to die off before a majority of people develop habits and behaviors made possible by The Future.
- sjs 17y agoIt's here alright. Until we can communicate telepathically - via our phones I bet - being able to send instant SMS messages around the globe will have to do. When 3G (or 4G, or the next one) is more accessible to everyone we'll have a whole array of ways to communicate instantly with literally almost everybody on earth (for reasonable values of "almost"). Twitter, traditional IM, IRC, Skype, ...
- cschneid 17y agoI want a netflix recommendation system, but for friends. I can communicate with anybody on earth, but I only know a handful of people in the immediate vicinity.
- seldo 17y agoThis is why I know we live in the future: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/dean-kamens-rob/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/dean-kamens-rob/ This dude is a cyborg. Not a technical "oh you've got eyeglasses" cyborg. Not a wannabe Kevin "I've implanted a subcutaneous neurochip" Warwick cyborg. A full-on, bad-ass "I have robot arms that I control with my fucking mind" cyborg.
- CamperBob 17y agoUm, wow. That is drop-dead unbelievable. I had no idea that thought-based control had progressed to this point. Why am I just now seeing this?!