1999 A.D.

Underestimated how far society would come, technologically, and... those hair styles...
 
Neat.
I like to look at things like this and try to envision what we would produce now as our “vision” Of life in 30 years that would be dead wrong or right on point???
In a similar thought line... I’m 42 i gre up with tv being a norm whereas my parents didn’t... that technology grew with them. I have an 8 and 10 yo. The cell phone didn’t exist in my childhood... but has grown with me. but to my kids they always existed... what will they look back at and say, “we didn’t have these back in my day” about??
 
benyflyguy said:
what will they look back at and say, “we didn’t have these back in my day” about??
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Autonomous, networked, everything. Cybernetic implants. DNA editing.
 
benyflyguy said:
Neat.
I like to look at things like this and try to envision what we would produce now as our “vision” Of life in 30 years that would be dead wrong or right on point???
In a similar thought line... I’m 42 i gre up with tv being a norm whereas my parents didn’t... that technology grew with them. I have an 8 and 10 yo. The cell phone didn’t exist in my childhood... but has grown with me. but to my kids they always existed... what will they look back at and say, “we didn’t have these back in my day” about??
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We’ll never ever guess it because crap like AOL was the big thing in 1999. :)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/12/business/dealbook/aol-timeline.html#/#time372_10956

They’d bought Netscape two years earlier and the old useful Internet was about to go commercial and bring you the garbage ad-laden wasteland of today.

But hey, Facebook and Google only love you for your metadata now, baby. At least AOL wanted subscribers. LOL.

Actually Facebook and Google have both now testified in court that they don’t want to be platforms, they want to be content providers. What does this mean legally? They want to control all political content on their sites.

Interesting other tidbits from the video...

The kid is actually told he flunked something and he didn’t lose all self-esteem. He also played video games and wasn’t told they were causing him to want to kill everyone in sight. LOL.

The microwave meals were supposedly nutritious! Hahahahahahaha. Loved the wide open right side of the supposed microwave oven too.

The chemical closet for clothes. LOL LOL LOL.

The whole “dad would write the checks for whatever mom bought” was cringeworthy even by the time of that video. My mom started a 30+ year career in the oil biz, the most good old boy business imaginable, in 1974. Early retirement and another ten years as a well paid consultant to them. LOL.

A kid alone in a room with a computer. We all know what that kid was really looking up. LOL. All the “tech of the future” stuff back then couldn’t have predicted the bandwidth demands of porn and gaming would drive the network expansion of backbone connections. They were always the customers paying the largest bills on time in the data center biz.

The concept that everyone’s house would be on enough land to just plop another hexagon on when you needed one. Hahahahaha.

A central company that would just show up and fix your computer. LOL. LOL. LOL. And it would automatically switch to a backup so you wouldn’t have downtime. Hahaha.

Grossly missed the workdays. He travels a few days a week to work and doesn’t work on the other days. LOL. Right. Even Ford and Philco knew they’d never allow that when they made it. LOL.

The golf trip. Oh my lord. So much hilarity there. Insert awful airlines here and then... Mexico City! Ahhh who knew it’d be such a horribly polluted place you’d never want to play golf there in 1999.

Stuff that is true:

That people would run on treadmills/ride bikes to computer generated exercise routines like mice in a wheel instead of going outside. They didn’t quite make the leap from video screens to overpriced Peloton bikes though. LOL.

Mom being totally annoyed at what the family wanted to eat for dinner. Karen’s comment was, “Come make your own lunch then.” Not like it would be hard, twist one knob. LOL.

Dad wanting beer for lunch. LOL. Nothing changes there! That was probably the most accurate part. Nailed it! Hahaha.
 
Atomic powered space ships navigated by guys with slide rules.
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denverpilot said:
The kid is actually told he flunked something and he didn’t lose all self-esteem.
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I noticed they used the word flunk instead of failed. I guess hearing the word ''failed'' might have had negative consequences on little Johnny...... if he could read...

Back in the 60s when I was in grade school we never heard the word failed.

According to my wife, no child fails a grade any more. Automatic pass to the next grade level no matter what. I guess to get them to that Walmart job as quickly as they can.
 
denverpilot said:
A central company that would just show up and fix your computer. LOL. LOL. LOL. And it would automatically switch to a backup so you wouldn’t have downtime. Hahaha.
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What? AWS doesn't do that? :p
Stuff that is true:
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Couples waiting until their mid-30's before having kids. Was that not a thing back then?
 
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