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Matt.GC
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You realise that the movie I, Robot was released nearly 20 years ago. A movie that heavily used CGI (for good reason, unlike these days where CGI is used instead of designing sets), and let's face it, 2004 feels like yesterday doesn't it? Don't all of the 2000's feel like yesterday? Plus, it was set in 2035, which is just 11 years from now.
Similarly, Minority Report, another heavy CGI project of the era, was released nearly 22 years ago and was set just 31 years from now. Whilst the depiction of the future in Back to The Future 2 was set in 2015, nearly 9 years ago!
Where's my flying Delorean and Hoverboard? I'd take both of those over social media, smart phones and Amazon. What a grim future we live in.
Similarly, Minority Report, another heavy CGI project of the era, was released nearly 22 years ago and was set just 31 years from now. Whilst the depiction of the future in Back to The Future 2 was set in 2015, nearly 9 years ago!
Where's my flying Delorean and Hoverboard? I'd take both of those over social media, smart phones and Amazon. What a grim future we live in.
Slugjc
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In defence of BTTF 2. We have seen a few predictions come true.
1, phoning over video links.
2, video advertising screens.
3, watching multiple things on multiple screens at once.
4, was only a year out on the cubs winning the world series
5, wasn't far off with a Google glasses.
6, ordering at a cafe/ restaurant using screens.
It blows my mind that the CGI in Jurassic park can still wipe the floor with some modern CGI. It was done on a Amiga 500.
1, phoning over video links.
2, video advertising screens.
3, watching multiple things on multiple screens at once.
4, was only a year out on the cubs winning the world series
5, wasn't far off with a Google glasses.
6, ordering at a cafe/ restaurant using screens.
It blows my mind that the CGI in Jurassic park can still wipe the floor with some modern CGI. It was done on a Amiga 500.
Slugjc
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My friend went to university to study some sort of wed design course in 2002.
He's final dissertation was done on WIFI not being accepted by the public and how the mini disk will replace the floppy disk. He also predicted all addresses would end in .TV, that went well.
Safe to say. I never ask him for a prediction on anything now.
He's final dissertation was done on WIFI not being accepted by the public and how the mini disk will replace the floppy disk. He also predicted all addresses would end in .TV, that went well.
Safe to say. I never ask him for a prediction on anything now.
RustyRider
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When the difference between 2024 and 1990 is the same as 1990 and 1956
Slugjc
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If Back to the future was made now. Marty would go back to 1994
In 1995 the Beatles realised the anthology. 25 years after they split. Now that will be 30 years old next year. Back then I thought, wow. This is 30 years ago. That's way long ago.
This week I listened to three albums that turn 30 next year.
Cast all change.
Supergrass I should Coco
Oasis what's the story morning glory.
I remember buying two of those on cassette with birthday money for for my 12th birthday!!!! Our price records in Leeds.
In 1995 the Beatles realised the anthology. 25 years after they split. Now that will be 30 years old next year. Back then I thought, wow. This is 30 years ago. That's way long ago.
This week I listened to three albums that turn 30 next year.
Cast all change.
Supergrass I should Coco
Oasis what's the story morning glory.
I remember buying two of those on cassette with birthday money for for my 12th birthday!!!! Our price records in Leeds.
Matt.GC
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Seeing Back to Future: The Musical tonight up in London to get my fix.
I was always captivated by Tomorrow's World on the BBC. They used to show developments that seem mundane now but amazing at the time.
I also recall watching a gaming show called Bad Influence showing a 3d model of a statue head. It was rotating and had a reflective, chrome like surface to it. This was back in the 4th gen console era when everyone had Amiga's, SNES' and Mega Drive's, and the presenter saying something to the effect of "this is what games could look like in the future". That could probably be done in the Xbox 360/PS3 era, but it didn't seem real at the time. Like it wasn't ever possible. The computer it ran off in the studio was about the size of a washing machine.
I was always captivated by Tomorrow's World on the BBC. They used to show developments that seem mundane now but amazing at the time.
I also recall watching a gaming show called Bad Influence showing a 3d model of a statue head. It was rotating and had a reflective, chrome like surface to it. This was back in the 4th gen console era when everyone had Amiga's, SNES' and Mega Drive's, and the presenter saying something to the effect of "this is what games could look like in the future". That could probably be done in the Xbox 360/PS3 era, but it didn't seem real at the time. Like it wasn't ever possible. The computer it ran off in the studio was about the size of a washing machine.
Poisson
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American Idiot turns 20 this year. One of the first albums I remember getting.
Slipknot's Vol.3 came out, weird to think of gigs now without Duality in them, pretty much unheard of.
Also had the release of Ministry's Houses of the Mole, first part of the anti-Bush trilogy, even if the following Rio Grande Blood was a better album.
Slipknot's Vol.3 came out, weird to think of gigs now without Duality in them, pretty much unheard of.
Also had the release of Ministry's Houses of the Mole, first part of the anti-Bush trilogy, even if the following Rio Grande Blood was a better album.
jon81uk
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Young'un, I saved my pocket money to get a Gameboy.Pokemon Leaf Green turns 20 years old, I remember saving pocket money to buy it for the Nitendo DS..
delta79
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I remember saving my pocket money for zx spectrum games that came on a audio cassette.Young'un, I saved my pocket money to get a Gameboy.
I also remember the first BBC computer turning up at school.
Shaggy_Dog_
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Paying £40 for monkey island 2 for the Amiga in 1991. £94 in today's brass
I remember getting a US import version of Super Street Fighter 2 for the SNES in summer 1994 (five months before it was released in the UK).
I think it cost me £65 (or was it £95?) but I was crazy about that game and played the hell out of it, but it was a massive chunk of my 6th Form Maintenance Grant (which was a thing back then for underprivileged families). Looking back on it now I can accept that that’s probably not what the money was intended for.
Slugjc
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I remember getting a US import version of Super Street Fighter 2 for the SNES in summer 1994 (five months before it was released in the UK).
I think it cost me £65 (or was it £95?) but I was crazy about that game and played the hell out of it, but it was a massive chunk of my 6th Form Maintenance Grant (which was a thing back then for underprivileged families). Looking back on it now I can accept that that’s probably not what the money was intended for.
Not a cheap thing back then.
Lad a work said yesterday "kids these days don't understand the value of money!!" Posts like ours prove, they never had.