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No matter how outdated and irrelevant those computers are today, their look is so nostalgic to me like no other thing. Other things that disappeared from our li
by mojuba 7y ago
No matter how outdated and irrelevant those computers are today, their look is so nostalgic to me like no other thing. Other things that disappeared from our lives, such as rotary phones, vinyl records (not completely lost though), the beautiful stereo systems of the 1980s, etc can never compare to the feeling of seeing and touching a computer for the first time. The magic of technology is lost at least for my generation, I don't know about the others.
- K0SM0S 7y agoIt depends. Technology became magic beyond our wildest dreams too, in many respects, when we take a second back to look at first principles, how far we've come. Part of that magic was age and personal disposition too, in addition to the revolutionary object. That combination doesn't happen quite often. But imagine a true sci-fi-esque VR experience a decade or two from now in company of your children or grand-children on a Christmas evening, that might make you feel in magic-land all over again.
- otabdeveloper4 7y agoProgress doesn't work like that. Once you've picked the obvious low-hanging fruit it stops being a research problem and starts being an engineering one. Which means tradeoffs and no free lunch and no more magic. We're never gonna have an airliner that is 10 times faster than the ones we have now. Same principles with computing too.
- Miraste 7y agoI don't know, using a VR headset for the first time is the most magical tech experience I've ever had and that was barely three years ago. Modern VR came about because all the disparate pieces of tech involved slowly improved over decades, until one day they all worked well enough to create something humanity could only dream of just a few years ago. There are a lot of fields in similar situations. We have room for some magic yet.