This video shows how GPS devices and tablets were going to be rolled out in the future. WARNING: real creepy http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=TZb0avfQme8&fulldescription=1

This video shows how GPS devices and tablets were going to be rolled out in the future. WARNING: real creepy http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=TZb0avfQme8&fulldescription=1


Not so creepy.  You gotta figure that all this stuff took years to develop, and especially the basic research that underlies all of our "recent electronic technology.  Once the basics were established, the initial roadblocks overcome, then you saw the explosion of new apps.  That's how science works.  Solve the basic problem and then see the rapid expansion

I remember those commercials, especially the part with people talking to each other through webcams and the voice-over saying something like "putting your heads together, even though you're not together."

This video shows how GPS devices and tablets were going to be rolled out in the future. WARNING: real creepy http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=TZb0avfQme8&fulldescription=1


I agree with DC....nothing at all creepy about the ads.  they were designed to show what kind of progress was being made in technology. They had the prototypes developed and in place and were finalizing them for consumer usage... 

what's creepy is how in 1963 Rod Serling predicted interactive classrooms with media aids. 

The episode is "On Thursday We Leave for Home" colonists who crash landed on a planet are finally rescued and are going to be taken home to earth.  The colonists want to know what earth's like and one of the rescuers tell them about how classrooms have televisions and how when they want to learn about a subject, like the Grand Canyon, they can have access to instant video feeds and images and information about the subject. 

I also remember, the first time I saw it some predictions about medical care... I think maybe it was bandaids with medicine in them... like the neosporne bandaids you could get a few years ago. I was working as I "re-watched" this ep and I didn't notice it mentioned so it's either been edited out or I just missed it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1xYpMOl90&feature=bf_next&list=PL1E010F52C130E5B3&lf=results_video

I agree with DC....nothing at all creepy about the ads.  they were designed to show what kind of progress was being made in technology. They had the prototypes developed and in place and were finalizing them for consumer usage... 

what's creepy is how in 1963 Rod Serling predicted interactive classrooms with media aids. 

The episode is "On Thursday We Leave for Home" colonists who crash landed on a planet are finally rescued and are going to be taken home to earth.  The colonists want to know what earth's like and one of the rescuers tell them about how classrooms have televisions and how when they want to learn about a subject, like the Grand Canyon, they can have access to instant video feeds and images and information about the subject. 

I also remember, the first time I saw it some predictions about medical care... I think maybe it was bandaids with medicine in them... like the neosporne bandaids you could get a few years ago. I was working as I "re-watched" this ep and I didn't notice it mentioned so it's either been edited out or I just missed it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1xYpMOl90&feature=bf_next&list=PL1E010F52C130E5B3&lf=results_video



We just got all the eps of Twilight Zone on DVD-haven't even opened it yet (you can guess why). I will check it out when we come to that ep.

Another thing is Star Trek. There was a documentary back in 1995 called The Science of Star Trek and how Gene Roddenbury was basically before his time and predicted a lot of the technology that we use today.


Here is the first part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWf0YsUWrY



Cat

We just got all the eps of Twilight Zone on DVD-haven't even opened it yet (you can guess why). I will check it out when we come to that ep.

Another thing is Star Trek. There was a documentary back in 1995 called The Science of Star Trek and how Gene Roddenbury was basically before his time and predicted a lot of the technology that we use today.


Here is the first part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWf0YsUWrY



Cat


I remember that doc....it was interesting.

I remember that doc....it was interesting.



I haven't watched it in a long time but the one thing I do remember was when they were talking about the communicators-which look an awful lot like cell phones.



Cat

I haven't watched it in a long time but the one thing I do remember was when they were talking about the communicators-which look an awful lot like cell phones.



Cat


I'm still waiting for my very own teleportation device!  ;)

I'm still waiting for my very own teleportation device!  ;)



So you can come visit us any time you want.



Cat

So you can come visit us any time you want.



Cat


yes!

I'm still waiting for my very own teleportation device!  ;)


where do you want to teleport to?

where do you want to teleport to?


Everywhere!

Yeah, I'm with the "not creepy, just prescient" crowd here.

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The AT&T: You Will campaign basically assumed (by the standards of 1993) unlimited computational processing power and unlimited bandwidth.  They got it mostly right.

Most of the things they predicted (GPS, Skype, Netflix, for example) are uncanny.

I'd kind of like to see AT&T do a new series of commercials telling us what kind of technology we can look forward to over the next 20 years.

where do you want to teleport to?


David Tennant's pants.

David Tennant's pants.


::)

::)


Don't roll your eyes at me, Porn Boy!

David Tennant's pants.


and I'd like to teleport myself into Maria Menounous's pants!  :P