That’s how I do it when I’m on ketamine
“Strap in!”
Oh man, I can’t wait!
The Network-Over-CareBear-Stare-Protocol will be much faster, more reliable, and more secure than ethernet and wifi!
We’re actually ahead of schedule. That’s how I show the computer my fake ID. McLovin, organ donor, Hawaii.
Accurate
They got the date right too!
Kids, gather round. Grampa Simpson needs to tell you something about the times as they was.
Computer concepts that structure our everyday lives were not just unknown to everybody you knew, for most of them they simply made no sense.
Desktop, mouse, file folder (or if 1337, ‘directory’), pixel, distributed, packets - hell the concept of ‘online’ (or “cyberspace” to my peeps. Sup y’all) was more than they cared to grasp and they would just tune out and immediately forget anything you’d said about it.
When this picture was conceived, the amount of people who used computers to talk to other people on a daily basis would have fit in a sportsball stadium. The rest of us lucky enough to have some beige box to kick around were only dreaming. AOL was still half a decade away.
Everyone else in the world - and definitely all of your teachers, parents, extended family, any grown up not already a maths graduate - had NO idea, didn’t want to know, and thought you were weird for caring.
OK, but this was Unix world magazine…
This is 100% accurate.
I grew up in the sprawling suburbs where every other kid had a moped and a swimming pool, but next to nobody had a computer.
My giant middle school, with thousands of kids had a computer club. And there was a grand total of 8 of us computer-owning nerds. Not to mention my Apple ][e cost something $4000 (USD) in todays money.
You guys haven’t been wearing your leftover Xmas tinsel as a hat?
I’m not gonna comment on the fashion, as I’m sure that can’t be accurately predicted (hell, I’m not outruling that this prediction might prove accurate in three years…)
But have you noticed that all sci-fi movies have fucking terrible UIs and means of interacting with computers?
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You’d be fucking exhausted and crying from the muscle strain.
Keyboard and mouse have been standard for half a century now, and for a good reason. Something else will probably replace it at some point, but YMCA-dancing the instructions will not be it.
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You’d be fucking exhausted.
I like to think he’s just fucking extra. If you rewatch the scene, another dude is working on a pretty normal computer setup, sitting at a desk, not flailing around wildly, normal sized monitor (except the monitor is transparent), etc. He seems to have the option to do gesture interaction too as he selects and moves some images with his pinky pointed at the screen, but seems like there is still a keyboard-like or touchpad interface on the desk. Then they transfer data over with a weird physical drive to Tom Cruise’s giant curved monitor and gesture controlled setup using the gloves. He’s just an early adopter into more experimental tech formats, like the rich kids who had the power glove for the Nintendo, or someone who has a 8k 60inch curved monitor. I bet even the amount of movements he is putting into the gestures is entirely unnecessary and over the top. He just thinks it’s cool.
On the other hand you have Star Trek, which basically invented our modern computing interfaces that aren’t keyboard and mouse.
Yup, they just never figured out to have fuses and relays in the instrument panels. No wonder Geordi is blind.
The sparks are just the UI telling you someone is attacking. Think of it like force feedback on a controller.
There’s an episode of DS9 where they use pen-based computing for a scene. It’s hilarious.
Fashion repeats every 20 to 30 years.
Yes. 20 to 30 years ago I had long black hair and looked like the average black metal enthusiast. However, when people weren’t looking I wore a white jumpsuit with caption belt, and a green-tinted fraggle-hair wig.
This was some prophet’s interpretation of what later became Linux socks.
losers using keyboard and mouse or even touchscreen, all my homies use rainbow pads, gayest and best eay to use the Internet
sometimes you gotta give your smartphone a bit of screen time. Its good for it.
What. What the fuck is that even supposed to be?
Post-futurism QR code scanning?
“i showed u my data chits. Pls respond”
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