Polychromatic VDU.

psychedelics (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, etc) as antidepressants or PTSD treatment. It was demonized so hard during the 70s because the govt hates hippies.

so that's the guy I can blame for blinding LED vehicle headlights?

Quantum Leap (1989 TV series) had a similar, but less functional device.

TIL, iPhones have lidar...

Full body?

Well let's see. I was a nerdy kid in the 70s, so I should be qualified for this. I have to say though, my wildest dreams set a pretty high bar. I dreamed of cities in space and in the oceans. And on land, we'd build giant fusion-powered arcologies modelled after the space cities that recycled everything we used. We'd spent most of our time in these cities connected by tunnelled maglevs while the rest of the world returned to a more natural state and became a giant wildlife/archaeological park.

But I'm trying to think of what would have blown my mind to learn about back then that actually happened. I think from a technological perspective, I never saw the marriage between computers and telecommunications becoming all that it is today. I had a vague idea of something like a video cell phone, but the idea that you could grab a movie off it from some distant giant computer complex and throw it up on a big screen in your home would've made me giddy. And just the quality of the image and the fidelity and depth of sound that could come out of tiny speakers would've been shocking. Sound systems were really, really shitty in the 70s. And TVs. Well, let's just say there was a reason you went to the cinema.

The science nerd in me would also have been blown away by discoveries made since the 70s. Birds are dinosaurs? There were real life hobbits running around on some island in Indonesia? There are ocean moons in our solar system? And if I showed up to explain all this to my kid self, he would not have believed my age when I told him. Medicine is keeping us younger now.

/dev/null is the ultimate storage solution. You can write infinite bytes to it and it'll never get full or wear out!

me (1999): I just want 1GB of ram and 1TB of hard drive, I can't see a world where more than that would be necessary.

We were ripping DVD's to 200mb divx at the time and an OTA cartoon might only be 25mb because SD+compression.

👉👌

Full body allows you to move your arms and legs in VR. Joints are approximated using IK, and the more trackers one wears, the closer it approaches to film grade motion capture quality.

Social media in general.

Watching a lot of stuff from the era, it seemed to completely miss the mark on how social media as a concept would work.

Ultrabright LEDs

They were d a r k back then.

https://xkcd.com/691/

Like a 6-7 probably

my dad thinks it sucks

I regularly work with 800Gbps Ethernet at work

Apparently, the invention of the VCR in the 80s brought an end to 70s porn cinemas, and this was one tech development few people regretted, including those employed by those establishments.

using the PS1 CPU as the I/O processor when in PS2 mode, no less.

In the 80s, my nerdy friends were already having LAN parties and some of them set up BBS's over spare land lines, which were sort of like an early social media just for your immediate friend group but not connected globally or anything.

Fast forward to the present day, and one of said friends invited me to a discord that was modelled after his old BBS. It's actually active and fun to catch up with everyone who's found their way back.

waow this is cool

Even the 1tb ones cost too much now. What, are data centers using those too??

Transferred demand.

SDDs and HDDs are too expensive, so people are using SD cards instead.

I think it's more that the companies producing flash storage have shifted their focus to ssds and therefore lowered the supply of SD cards ?

Ziggy!!! We loved this show so much when we were kids.

SDUC can get up to 128TB btw

Has an SD card with 4tb ever been produced? Idk and i doubt

Mine broke unfortunately

Damn, really? Dude was a treasure. And we treated him like shit.

and yet we are told that it's too hard/expensive to add a 16 gb Video Cache to a consumer graphic card.

In Johnny Mnemonic the upload in the brain was 320GB and he had to erase his childhood memories. Today it would be just a microSD. The story is set in 2021.

Last night my sister and I had a 90 minute conversation on our phones with full-colour, hi-res video, me in the UK, her in NZ. It didn't cost either of us anything. We're in our 70s, such a thing was unimaginable back in the day.

Uhh very, very, very different type of memory. You could try using a microsd card if you're happy with 10 spf I guess, I prefer measuring in fps though

There are ocean moons in our solar system?

Just learned it from your post. That is absolutely mind-blowing!

True, but Keanu Reeves started being an icon in the 80s, at least, but I really meant the game had real people in it. Not just voice acting (e.g. V doesn’t necessarily look like Cherami Leigh), but the character looks like the well known actor. It’s a line I don’t think gaming crossed before, to that level.

why not both?

It cost you internet and your privacy. 🤗

The Nazis are back.

Not if they were using stolen wifi and Signal \s

10 spf is too low for me, I'll sunburn

Not your privacy if you can find an encrypted video chat software. I'm trying keet.io it's been solid

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gD5mnAxAHFY

No, that would be the assholes who lift their trucks, or perhaps your optometrist. Properly aimed LEDs don't blind for shit. They blind me less than oldschool projectorless halogens even.

Do you buy bottom of the line Android phones?

Well, still no flying cars.

We can barely handle non flying cars. Can you imagine the amount of mini 9/11s drunk drivers flyers will cause?

4TB??.
I remember being in highschool in 2003 and we were all standing around looking at a 1GB USB. It was insane that a USB could hold an insane 1GB

My first MP3 player was a USB stick that plugged into an adaptor that had a 3.5mm headphone jack.. It let me carry 60-85 songs, There was no Bluetooth.

Yeah, digital cameras with raw images is pretty much the only usecase of TB sdcards. Keep in mind that they don't have wear leveling and a very simple controller. Also lower quality flash than SSDs.

Above knee, double amputees able to walk because of robot legs. This will always seem like science fiction to me.

Superconducting levitation is probably the closest we can get safely. Or maybe once we got reliable assist systems.