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Imagine waking up and seeing an iPhone for the very first time. In 2005, the latest phone he probably had was some flip phone.
by briefcomment 6y ago
Imagine waking up and seeing an iPhone for the very first time. In 2005, the latest phone he probably had was some flip phone.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y ago"Ah sweet, what else do we have? Are all cars electric? Did we make a manned flight to Mars? Have we cured cancer?" "Oh, that's about it. We have iPhones now. And to be honest, they are kind of a problem."
- ilkkao 6y agoThe article should have explained this in little more detail. Does he have a 2005 phone, probably Nokia Symbian? Or does he actually remember something and can use android or iphone. In the first case, a written note in his own handwriting would make more sense I guess.
- cgriswald 6y ago...and then going outside and seeing an orange sky and all the people wearing masks.
- mikestew 6y agoImagine you were me in 2005 with an HTC 8125 that had a sliding keyboard with actual QWERTY keys, and I wake up to find that all “smart” phones are black slabs of glass that I’m suppose to poke at with my paws like some kind of animal. I’ve since come to terms with the glass keyboard of my iPhone, but I maintain that it was not progress. Besides, the person in the story was only two years out from seeing an iPhone for the first time, like everyone else at the time.
- samatman 6y agoYeah. I prefer a slab of glass all around, but I went straight to smartphones from flip phones. I've yet to meet a HipTop user who thinks that the modern smartphone is an across-the-board improvement.
- gruez 6y agoSo what would be the equivalent for 2035? Everyone using AR devices or neuralink?
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoWe'll only know when we get there, but I'd hazard a guess it'll be more conventional as extrapolations on tech we have now, instead of more experimental stuff. AR doesn't seem to have much movement, and neuralink is still in that realm of promising way more than it's proving.