fatboy Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 came across this on a website.These are illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000Firemen will be equipped with bat wings to be able to easily access top floors and roofs.Schools will be equipped with audio books.Horses will be so rare that people will pay to see themYou'll be able to send mail just by dictating it into loudspeaker.Video-telegraph.Wars will be fought by combat carsHeating with Radium.Building sites will be equipped with automatic devices and machines.got me thinking what the future would be like as we all do. but what also got me thinking is how far off this guys predictions are. Some of them he has touched on are right, but we went far beyond his predictions. How far beyond our predictions will the future be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Apart from the flying firemen, he was fucking way out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Apart from the flying firemen, he was fucking way out.totally hai was meaning by how far beyond the concept we are. I laughed when i watched the running man and they have data stored on tiny magnetic tapes filed in a library, they were far off too. who would have thought we would have flash drives and stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 I find it strange thinking about what as a child I imagined the future to be like. It was always about flying cars. There just had to be flying cars in the future. What would be the point of the future if there were no flying cars? Might as well just stay in the present.I remember often having conversation about what the year 2000 would be like. Obviously it just had to be very different from what 1999 would be like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 some on my favourite future citysFifth Element's New YorkJudge Dread's Mega-city 1coruscantBladerunners LA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 I was thinking about this the other day.Realistically, will the rate at which technology advances increase, stay constant or decline?Surely there would be a peak at some point, have we hit the peak or is this merely the beginning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain burrito Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 It's not the future until 2015. Flying cars and hoverboards galore.I remember as a kid wanting the pad things they have in Star Trek. Now we have the iPad, the Kindle and other varieties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 I asked for a hover board one Christmas.Never got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 SOME MISCONCEPTIONS OF COMPUTERS LOL* "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of minicomputers, arguing against the PC in 1977.* "I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.* "640K ought to be enough for anybody." or "No one will need more than 637 kilobytes of memory for a personal computer." are two variants of the same quote, often misattributed to Bill Gates in 1981. Gates has repeatedly denied ever saying this, and he points out that it has never been attributed to him with a proper source. In fact, the memory limitation was due to the hardware architecture of the IBM PC.* "But what... is it good for?" -- IBM executive Robert Lloyd, speaking in 1968 about the microprocessor, the heart of todays computers.* "We will never make a 32 bit operating system." -- Bill Gates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Kurt Vonneguts descriptions of futuristic machines in Player piano are pretty cool. They're all valves and punch cards and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedo 808 Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 The future will be far more mundane and infinitely more fantastic than we can ever imagine it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 coruscantcoruscant isn't in the future, it's a long time ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabbage Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 the future will be like today, just more expensive and chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 What (movie?) is this image from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyEB Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 What (movie?) is this image from?I think it's Wall-E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Wall-E..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyEB Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Wall-E..?It was a PIXAR film.WALL-E - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 As a boy I always wanted one of the star Trek communicating thingies....but now that mobile phones are everywhere I refuse to get one.I'd still like to get 'beamed up' to places instead of getting First Bus though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Star Trek transporters are the ultimate dream of the future. Even above flying cars or travelling in tubes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Why come you don't got a tattoo?, its Idiocracy, your shit is like, all retarded.Idiocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaand the future doctor will see you now...Great film, watch it, then visit Starbucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I remember watching Back to the future II and being so turned on by hover-boards.. Health and safety dictates the future. Fuckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 It's not even set in the future, but the ultimate future gadget is that Men In Black amnesia thing. I don't care what the fuck a city looks like. As long as I can wipe some fucking brains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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