So, what will the World look like in 25/50 years? - Page 9 - Politics and Economics

Low Key · 06-06-2012, 10:48 PM

Has anyone made the obvious math joke about what the world will look like in 6 months?

zikzak · 06-06-2012, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Megastar11

Dick Tracy did not have a device connected to an infinite network of computers spread across the globe, capable of getting fed from an infinite variety of sources an infinite amount of information at request instantaneously, nor do I recall anyone making a prediction of this invention in the 1960s, but if they did it would have been dismissed as a crazy pie in the sky dream only vaguely imaginable but totally beyond the reaches of scientific innovation.

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And the rest is wrong, too. Some of you kids have really curious ideas about the history of computing technology.

neverfoldthe1outer · 06-06-2012, 11:47 PM

yeah, the "infinite network of computers, infinite amount of information" comment was dubious. smacks of youth, ignorance, etc.

DblBarrelJ · 06-06-2012, 11:53 PM

I clicked pg 2 of this thread and have no idea WTF is going on. Anyway, grunching:

zikzak · 06-07-2012, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ

I clicked pg 2 of this thread and have no idea WTF is going on.

Cliffs:
1) Young people think they invented technology
2) Wesley Crusher sucks at poker

At least that's all I've gotten out of it. This thread's older than my account.

I didn't even know the internet existed before the summer of '09. I was too busy chipping flint for my spear in case a woolly mammoth showed up.