That website makes me feel seen.

Is modern media, we have games and movies and shows with AI villains like Cain and GLaDOS. We used machines to create those villains. And even within the context of a generation, we are creating those villains.

Technology isn’t impressive, it just seems that way compared to how disappointing humans are.

Imagine showing VR porn games to Benjamin Franklin.

You can still download Wikipedia, the entire English version (as of 2022) is only 95GB (including images!)

Except now the dumb terminal (and even an iPhone) has even more compute power than supercomputers from the late 90s

You jest, but I used ChatGPT the other day to check a fact and it was right on!

"Hey ChatGPT, do AIs often hallucinate and just make shit up?"

At least it's honest... Until the context gets too long. Then it gets sick of chatting with us 🤷

What lidar device is pointing at them?

relevant veritasium

Both of those actors were children in the 70s; can't imagine they were particularly big among nerds at the time

Can't wait for this revolution in wildlife photography.

the first implant doctors you meet in the tutorial is a lookalike from the Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Memonic.

I dont know, have you seen "space:1999"? I think some things would be a surprise, but i also think they would be like "what the hell? No flying cars? No end to cancer? Even more wars? People just watching short videos all god damn day and not actually being productive at all?"

Pornhub, OnlyFans

I can't believe nobody said Star Trek. In the 70s you had reruns of the original series and the animated series short run. TMP didn't come around until the end of the decade. I wasn't there, but I imagine a 70s trekky would be damn grateful to have all the Trek we have today and they'd probably even love Academy (All the older not chronically online fans I know rave about it).

Edit: regardless of your personal opinion on nu trek, the answer fits the question. A trek fan from the 70s would be blown away by having 13 series and 14 movies available to watch on demand, plus books, games, etc.

Don't forget that it also has a digital watch and calculator build in. Two things that where always added to 1970s premium tech products :)

Oofta, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has a 4.6 on IMDb.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8622160/

I remember when the only color laser pointer was red. Now you have all the colors of the rainbow.

Well, now you can't say all the older not chronically online fans you know rave about it, because I'm older, not chronically online and I think it sucks.

Edit: I've just found out that "not chronically online" means "too incompetent to do shit online" so my apologies for misunderstanding. I thought it just meant, you know, not being online a lot. Like me. I've posted to Lemmy about 10 times in the past 5 days. I have literally no other social media accounts on the Internet. I was on Facebook for like a week in 2014 before I noped out. BUT! I can make an account on Lemmy, so my opinions about Star Trek are clearly only informed by being a chronically online mouth-breather.

I think people generally tend to underestimate technology levels from 50 to 100 years ago. For the most part, the biggest innovation of the last hundred years has been miniaturization rather than any one particular technological advancement. And frankly, I think that’s the answer to the question; People from the 70s wouldn’t necessarily be in awe of one particular technology, but they’d certainly be in awe of how much we’ve been able to fit into a tiny ass amount of space.

Honestly, I think they’d be more disappointed than excited. We have not been to Mars, we don’t have flying cars, and we don’t have computers that can think for themselves despite what LLM providers would have you think. Our 2001 looked nothing like that which was imagined.

This guy's got upper management written all over him.

Two income households that still can't afford a single-family home.

What would TNG's first season have if it was standalone and came out today

I'd say so, afaik they only go as small as a CF in 4TB.

The people I'm talking about would struggle with Reddit, let alone Lemmy. To paraphrase Lt. Commander Nella Daren; 'You're more online than you think you are."

This is it, when you look at sci-fi from that era you rarely see the analog of our current “phones”

I don't think the 4tb micro SD card actually exists. They top out at 2tb which might be the maximum for the protocol. Your photo actually says SDHC which is clearly a mockup since SDHC was 32GB maximum. 4TB would have to be SDUC which is the level after SDXC. Sandisk announced a 4TB card last year but I don't think it was ever shipped, maybe due to the AI-driven shortage.

Partial AI slop: https://electronics.alibaba.com/buyingguides/4tb-microsd-card-reality-check-(2026)

I dunno man, but probably better than that 😂

https://www.simplywise.com/blog/which-iphones-have-lidar/

I have the opposite: at work, I found a Sony Memory Stick to Floppy Disk adapter (with CD driver disk). Yes, you plug a Memory Stick into a dummy floppy disk, then insert it into a 3.5” drive to transfer files to/from your peripherals. If literally anyone pings me tomorrow I will post the most cursed 2002 shit I’ve ever seen.

Could you imagine showing a modern game console to someone from the 70s?

1980's nerd here.

I fly camera drones, sometimes for money. I can buy a DJI mini 3 for under $400 US, and it is capable of taking perfectly steady video and pictures even in a pretty good wind. It will also stay in one spot in midair for close to half an hour before the battery runs down.

And a DJI mini 3 is a cheap beginner camera drone.

"not chronically online". Has a Lemmy account.

A modern car would be pretty impressive to someone from the 70s, even without the ability to fly.

He'd never get anything done.

Vaccines and advancements in medicine. Ozempic and its ability to bring down and counts. Etc etc.

And yet i am this close to wanting him jailed

Well not him, I guess, just the designers of all those devices that have a blue laser like led in it shining in my eyes at 4 AM in the morning. Fuck all those digital clocks, TVs, etc.

Mind blowing but not nerdy.

That's just curb crawling from home, home office for prostitutes.

Love it! The main reason I use reader modes in browsers is so that they look like that website.

I wonder if there is a size limit? Could you just throw a 4TB drive on there and plug and play?

Best site ever made! Haven't seen that one topped yet.

It's also opened the door to some very interesting synthetic chemistry applications that use blue light, it's changed the field of photochemistry

And damn powerful. So powerful you get almost every time wayyy more than allowed/advertised.

MicroSD express.

Nintendo Switch 2 is the only device I know uses it. Steam deck/machine needs it desperately. It would give similar performance to internal storage for cell phones.

But it's obsolete, so they throw it away and buy a new one the next year.

I’m not sure what standard of Memory Stick it supports up to, but definitely not in the TB range*… though now I’m wondering if I could get a Memory Stick and floppy drive expensed… Would love to see a multiple week file transfer estimate lol.

The oldest computer I think I have access to, though is an iMac G4, so if it won’t accept the driver disc and a modern floppy drive, we’d be out of luck.

*unless there’s some ridiculously unholy Memory Stick to SDXC adapter I’m blissfully unaware of…

SDR (Software Defined Radio)

Its insane how many things you can do/listen to with a simple cheap USB stick.

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

Full body virtual reality is cheap and affordable ($1-2K vs $145K in 1994 and $Millions in the 70s)

Which is based on one of the early short stories from William Gibson. Who Mike Pondsmith took a lot of inspiration from when writing the first Cyberpunk rulebook.