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Topic	To whoever has one of those old Game Boy Bricks
WhiskeyDisk 07/23/18 9:27:04 PM #11:	GanglyKhan posted... This has to be one of my favorite posts in a long time. @GanglyKhan Thank you. I was born in '78. My first television was black and white. My first console was a second hand Atari 2600 from a cousin. I can probably still beat 1-1 and 1-2 on NES SMB with my eyes closed. I graduated high school in 96. Even back then I could have conceived of something like the Kindle Paperwhite. I might have even conceded something like a modern laptop, the Mac Lisa already existed at that point. The modern cellphone still blows my mind on a profound level. I get the basic principles behind how it functions and all, but i still marvel at the fact that I have a device in my pocket the size of a Graham cracker that I can shout at for access to the collective sum of all human knowledge. Look at ST:TNG. This took place what, 300 or 400 years in the future? With devices like the tricorder and PADD, they were on to the basic concept of our tech now, but even still, when Picard had to do personnel reviews, he still had 20 odd PADDs on his desk because in the late 80s-early 90s the concept of having multiple windows running on one device was inconceivable. I love living in the future, but there was a reason the tower of Babel was razed. We've reached a point in human history where we've effectively hit the same barrier. Human communication hasn't even caught up to the ability we have now. Our technology has far outstripped our ability to process information. It also kills me how fast science fiction ages at this point. I love Philip K. Dick, but damned if holotapes by mail order didn't age poorly in the age of Netflix and Hulu and Prime. Look at Gibson, he was a visionary 20 years ago but my cellphone makes Johnny Mnemonic look like a joke, and that book changed the way I saw tech when it came out. I can literally carry an SD card the size of a fingernail that has 10x his storage space and he needed a brain implant the size of a pack of cigarettes to do a tenth of that. Arthur C Clarke invented the communications satellite, and my favorite quote of his is "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". As far as I'm concerned, I live in an era of magitech. I grew up dismantling clocks and radios, knowing how to solder and make circuit boards, but if you get right down to it, as much as I understand the basic principles of current tech, it may as well be magic since if society ended tomorrow I might be able to carve up a blinking LED with a 9v battery and a 555 timer chip, but I damn sure couldn't cobble together anything better than a 1920s crystal radio tuner from scavenged parts and the best I could do from natural materials is make fire. Spoiled brats laughing at a Gameboy as quaint and antiquated? Go show someone at the original Woodstock SMB on a Gameboy and tell me that hippie wouldn't burn you.at the stake themselves back when a mono transistor radio was still an absurd luxury that was the size of an Oxford dictionary, running on 4 to 6 D cells. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:905608533] in To whoever... [t:76832443]...</cite> <quote><cite>GanglyKhan posted...</cite> <quote>This has to be one of my favorite posts in a long time. </quote> @GanglyKhan Thank you. I was born in '78. My first television was black and white. My first console was a second hand Atari 2600 from a cousin. I can probably still beat 1-1 and 1-2 on NES SMB with my eyes closed. I graduated high school in 96. Even back then I could have conceived of something like the Kindle Paperwhite. I might have even conceded something like a modern laptop, the Mac Lisa already existed at that point. The modern cellphone still blows my mind on a profound level. I get the basic principles behind how it functions and all, but i still marvel at the fact that I have a device in my pocket the size of a Graham cracker that I can shout at for access to the collective sum of all human knowledge. Look at ST:TNG. This took place what, 300 or 400 years in the future? With devices like the tricorder and PADD, they were on to the basic concept of our tech now, but even still, when Picard had to do personnel reviews, he still had 20 odd PADDs on his desk because in the late 80s-early 90s the concept of having multiple windows running on one device was inconceivable. I love living in the future, but there was a reason the tower of Babel was razed. We've reached a point in human history where we've effectively hit the same barrier. Human communication hasn't even caught up to the ability we have now. Our technology has far outstripped our ability to process information. It also kills me how fast science fiction ages at this point. I love Philip K. Dick, but damned if holotapes by mail order didn't age poorly in the age of Netflix and Hulu and Prime. Look at Gibson, he was a visionary 20 years ago but my cellphone makes Johnny Mnemonic look like a joke, and that book changed the way I saw tech when it came out. I can literally carry an SD card the size of a fingernail that has 10x his storage space and he needed a brain implant the size of a pack of cigarettes to do a tenth of that. Arthur C Clarke invented the communications satellite, and my favorite quote of his is "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". As far as I'm concerned, I live in an era of magitech. I grew up dismantling clocks and radios, knowing how to solder and make circuit boards, but if you get right down to it, as much as I understand the basic principles of current tech, it may as well be magic since if society ended tomorrow I might be able to carve up a blinking LED with a 9v battery and a 555 timer chip, but I damn sure couldn't cobble together anything better than a 1920s crystal radio tuner from scavenged parts and the best I could do from natural materials is make fire. Spoiled brats laughing at a Gameboy as quaint and antiquated? Go show someone at the original Woodstock SMB on a Gameboy and tell me that hippie wouldn't burn you.at the stake themselves back when a mono transistor radio was still an absurd luxury that was the size of an Oxford dictionary, running on 4 to 6 D cells. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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