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Actually, I thought everything would stay the same, I would just be bigger and older. I really never thought about flying cars, and space ships and stuff like that, b/c I knew it was fiction. Lost in Space, The Jetsons, Star Trek...that was TV. And now, I'm sad that things didn't stay the same."Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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I figured there'd be lightsaber's, blasters and X-wings everywhere. teleporting was also a big hope considering I walked a LOT in my pre car days and then of course after my first few crappy cars. One day I'll share the story of how I got my first car by trading a 12 pack of beer. Really.Comment
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I'm not entirely dissapointed. I think SF usually shortens the years till we achieve progress and SF TV usually cuts that way too short. I think if you want to see a Star Trek-like future it is 750 to 1000 years away; not 300 years away. Star Wars tech maybe longer than that. Not in our life-times.Comment
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Never thought about it like that, but yea - that's true
Without even thinking I would have said Star Wars is more advanced.Comment
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Star Wars has always been a bit less technologically advanced than Star Trek...it's obviously less cerebral than Star Trek...Star Wars is more like cowboys and indians in space...lots of shoot 'em up stuff...less thought involved.
Just a small example in technology...compare C-3PO to Data...nuff said...
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Good point. One's an awesome Droid who's buddies with R2-D2 and the other is really annoying.
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C-3PO is NOT annoying?
He gives Jar Jar Binks a run for his money...
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I agree that I'm a little disappointed with our proliferation into space compared to what I dreamed about as a kid.
The thing with science and technology is that it almost never grows in the directions people predict. I remember when I was a kid everyone thought TV phones was a future device we would all have - but the practicality of it never really took off. People knew home computers were inevitable - but nobody could even guess what we'd use them for.
It's funny that no one even came close to predicting the really significant things that have shaped society now - like the internet. Let's not take for granted that we're all miles away talking to each other regularly in our little sub-culture here. It's pretty amazing when you think about it - at least I think it's pretty amazing.
In medicine it's the same thing. In the 70s I think most people predicted we'd cure cancer by now - on the other hand our knowledge of genetics is far beyond what we were even able to conceive. It's also more complex than we might have thought at that point - but that's part of the process too.
Sure, when I was a kid I wanted a jet pack - but right now I'm excited because we're exactly the right age to have witnessed the dawning of a new technological wave.Last edited by Brazoo; Dec 21, '10, 3:39 AM.Comment
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Maybe I'm easily amazed. I just realized a couple of days ago that the plasma screen I've been using for 5 months has a tiny processor that allows me to play DIVX files by directly through USB devices. I think that's pretty sweet!Comment
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I think people underestimate technology that we have. Sure maybe in the 70's you thought about us having a rocket pack... But I have a phone way smaller than the ones you were using then, and I can watch Doctor Who, any episode I want, directly on it anywhere, anytime. Then I can have it give me directions home if I'm lost, listen to music, take pictures, scan barcodes and play video games.
If that's not hi-tech futuristic stuff, I dunno what is!Comment
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True. In many ways we have surpassed the expectations. If someone had pointed to a wall of LP records and told me that one day I could carry the equivalent amount of music in a wallet sized package to listen to anytime I wanted I wouldn't have believed them.
And private communication devices were the stuff of Dick Tracy comics or Man From U.N.C.L.E. shows.90, Joe 90.... Great Shakes : Milk Chocolate -- Shaken, not Stirred.Comment
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Does anyone remember that phone book cover in the 70s that showed people through the ages talking to each other on a variety of phone and it ended with a video phone?Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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I want my Star Trek Transporter DAMMIT!
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