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We are living in the future ,Ladies and gentlemen! Call of Duty Advanced Warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphc8MlwDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i
by smallhands 11y ago
We are living in the future ,Ladies and gentlemen!
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphc8MlwDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphc8MlwDs
- castell 11y agoBefore, there was Crysis (2007) with its Nanosuit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis) which itself was inspired by real-life US military Future Force Warrior concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Force_Warrior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Force_Warrior)
- vidarh 11y agoIt's much older than that: Hardiman [1] was an actual prototype from 1965. And of course in fiction there's a ton of examples, such as Starship Troopers (the novel) from 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiman
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoCan probably trace it further back to "Waldo" which I believe was written in the late 30's
- venomsnake 11y agoOnly if Heinlein hadn't written starship troopers couple of decades before.
- Terr_ 11y agoKnee-jerk reaction: "Of all the other historical-prototypes or fictional-examples, he triumphantly highlights... a recent Call of Duty game? He must be pretty young." Nothing wrong with that--we all were once--but I'm offering it as feedback since I'm probably not the only reader nursing a sudden rush of get-off-my-lawn-ness. Perhaps more importantly, the gestalt behind "we're in the future now" is very different depending on how far in the past you first remember "the future" being predicted.