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Old 03-12-2016, 20:51
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Good to see the television screen sizes are finally living up to expectations. The household nanny bit ...thankfully not (yet).


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Old 03-12-2016, 22:04
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Good to see the television screen sizes are finally living up to expectations. The household nanny bit ...thankfully not (yet).


https://youtu.be/S1p6fmPzoJk
The theme/intro music sounds like a spooky who-done-it film.
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Old 04-12-2016, 00:48
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My nan had this book that she found on a train one day dated from the 60s, and while I can't remember what it was called, it was what life would be like in C21 - or rather the trip that author had after taking acid. While most of it seemed like it would happen as soon as technology caught and some things were pretty ambiguous, it actually addressed possible concerns about the technology and a slightly dumbed down version of how it would work. The other interesting bit was that it wasn't saying that the moment we hit 2001 we'd have all this technology, but it would appear throughout the century with certain time frames for each, and from what I can remember a lot of it is fairly spot on. The only problem was every time a new technology came along that resembled anything in the book my nan would go "I read about that ages ago!" and everyone would look at her like she'd lost the plot.

Just a shame there's no holidays in space or flying cars yet
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Old 04-12-2016, 01:48
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Rather depressing to think that 50 years later, the basics of life are pretty much the same.
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Old 04-12-2016, 02:03
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Stick a couple of centuries on Blade Runner (2219 instead of 2019) and that is sadly a far more realistic future than 2001: A Space Odyssey ever was.

But what wonderful films.

Mind you the sequel to Blade Runner will be a total disaster - Ford was not the star - (the vastly underrated) Hauer was and always will be and he actually wrote this soliloquy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU
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Old 04-12-2016, 05:41
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so much of this stuff is all on our smart phones, that said some of this stuff looks like its straight out of Star Treks vision of the future, the work bench for example looking like something off the Enterprise.
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Old 04-12-2016, 07:18
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Rather depressing to think that 50 years later, the basics of life are pretty much the same.
I't the opposite of depressing.
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Old 04-12-2016, 09:13
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Good to see the television screen sizes are finally living up to expectations. The household nanny bit ...thankfully not (yet).


https://youtu.be/S1p6fmPzoJk
I always find it amusing looking at the futuristic design of the cars and whatnot from the future in films from the 1960s. The appearance of the technology always looked to be pretty crap. I remember watching things on a TV screen back in the 1980s on a 22 inch screen and yet now my sister has, I'm guessing, something like a 40 inch TV. It looks to be that anyway. TV screens certainly are getting bigger as the decades go by. They've got the right idea in that video with some things. That big thing that the fella sits in front of that can store tons of information, there'll be something like that today except it'll be small enough to fit in your hand. Yeah, a lot of the technology we have today would likely amaze people back in the 1960s.
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Old 04-12-2016, 13:03
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Rather depressing to think that 50 years later, the basics of life are pretty much the same.
I dunno..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9uGlfvyH0M

and from the comments-

if it was held during the summer than why is no one wearing t shirts or summer clothing just formal suits? Didn't summer clothing exist in those days?

The Welcome Trust had an exhibition showing more films from the Festival, including some of the future tech.. Which in their version was big on nylon and synthetic fabrics, which I guess helped power the swinging '60s and provide a bit more color 
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Old 04-12-2016, 15:04
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I love the stroppy computer, telling the boy he's flunked his test and then ordering the husband to do 8 mins of cycling and 6 mins of something else (and repeating the order when he tries to ignore it!) I also loved that the wife shopped on her computer and her husband got the bills on his!
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Old 04-12-2016, 19:16
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I love the stroppy computer, telling the boy he's flunked his test and then ordering the husband to do 8 mins of cycling and 6 mins of something else (and repeating the order when he tries to ignore it!) I also loved that the wife shopped on her computer and her husband got the bills on his!
Funny how they could imagine such a revolution in how people live their lives, and the impact that computers would have on society, but egalitarianism wasn't even on the radar.
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Old 04-12-2016, 20:39
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I was at school in 1967 and it was about then we got our first language computer - a cross between a hi fi and very primitive computer. It was not very much use and very cumbersome. We did not even have a colour TV at home let alone a big screen or flat screen one and it took ages to warm up.

In the early 70s I worked with some early computers transferring car registrations from paper files onto the first big computer system. It was a one year job between school and college and took me several thousand hours to do what would now be done in seconds automatically.

By big, I mean that computer was the size of my house in which I write this message but far less powerful than the small laptop on which I am writing this post.

And it cost millions of pounds for them to install!
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Old 05-12-2016, 00:19
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I don't understand why they thought people would prefer to hand-write emails instead of just typing them. In the video, the guy hand-writing an email is doing so with a keyboard right beside him? What the hell is that all about?!
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Old 05-12-2016, 00:41
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I don't understand why they thought people would prefer to hand-write emails instead of just typing them. In the video, the guy hand-writing an email is doing so with a keyboard right beside him? What the hell is that all about?!
The personal touch? They already had typewriters and computer keyboards in the '60s. What they were saying is that in the future we'll have electronic pens so we can send hand-written documents via electronic mail at the speed of light!

They were right too. I use a Wacom tablet when using Photoshop (admittedly, not writing letters) and as a mouse when my wrist starts aching, because it's ergonomic.
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Old 10-12-2016, 13:43
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I'm just furious we STILL haven't got hoverpants.
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