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I actually liked one of the other ideas in the Reddit comment thread more. Photo realistic CG effects in movies might be more surprising and mind boggling to s

I actually liked one of the other ideas in the Reddit comment thread more. Photo realistic CG effects in movies might be more surprising and mind boggling to see all of a sudden. I think people would be impressed, but not necessarily surprised that a future society had invented smartphones.

dalke 14y ago
Smartphones? That's like a cross between a Dick Tracy wrist radio (1946) and Vannevar Bush's Memex (1945), right? ;) Some years back I went to a 2001 retrospective. The filming, which took place in 1966, attempted to predict what life would be in 2001: space craft, moon colony, orbital hotel, a computer that was unremarkable when it beat an average human at chess, real AI, computers which could recognize emotions and read lips, flat screen video, suspended animation, and so on. Most of those we still don't have. The presenter also commented about some of the things they missed. The only one I recall now is that in the film it was one screen, one (simple) display. There were no information dense displays, with overlays or multiple virtual windows on the same screen.