Technology Evolution

[Dante'sInferno]

Computers,Internet,Vinyl,Casettes,CD's,Ipods,ipod touch,VHS's,DVD's,Blu-Ray DVD's.


Just some of the things we love today.This is a discussion for about any technology you can think of.My favorite being,DVD's and The Internet.Also MP3's.

[newb]

meh....I won't be impressed until they actually invent "The Orgasmatron"

[Vodstok]

i love computers. i live in them.

[The_Return]

The internet amazes me...probably the most important innovation of the last 30 years.

[neverending]

When I was young one of the big concepts in science fiction was "the universal library" - a repository of ALL of humankind's knowledge, arts and thought. It would be accessable by everyone and would bring about a great renaissance.

With the internet, we're getting close- you still can't find EVERYTHING on the internet and of course it's only available to those who can afford it. We're getting closer, though.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by newb

meh....I won't be impressed until they actually invent "The Orgasmatron"

I heart early Woody Allen.

I would also settle for the machine that Robert Duvall is hooked up to at the beginning of THX 1138.

Other technology that I would like to see:

• Jet packs
• Teleportation

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by neverending

When I was young one of the big concepts in science fiction was "the universal library" - a repository of ALL of humankind's knowledge, arts and thought. It would be accessable by everyone and would bring about a great renaissance.

With the internet, we're getting close- you still can't find EVERYTHING on the internet and of course it's only available to those who can afford it. We're getting closer, though.

even better than just the internet, Wikipedia is making the universal library concept a reality. they are literally trying to catalogue and quantify everything.

[newb]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I heart early Woody Allen.

I would also settle for the machine that Robert Duvall is hooked up to at the beginning of THX 1138.

Other technology that I would like to see:

• Jet packs
• Teleportation

if we had "teleportation" we wouldn't need "jet packs"


although they would be fun

[Disease]

Originally Posted by Dante'sInferno

Computers,Internet,Vinyl,Casettes,CD's,Ipods,ipod touch,VHS's,DVD's,Blu-Ray DVD's.


Just some of the things we love today.This is a discussion for about any technology you can think of.My favorite being,DVD's and The Internet.Also MP3's.

You love DVD's so much you gotta say it twice.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by newb

if we had "teleportation" we wouldn't need "jet packs"


although they would be fun

that is like saying "we have space shuttles, who needs busses?"

I imagine only the wealthy will be using teleportation for years after its advent. Let them turn into insect hybrids before they get the bugs worked out :D

(no pun intended)