Gotta make a reminder in march 2029 to send this in my group chat.
What sort of drugs were they on when they predicted this?
Qualudes ofc
The good stuff.
Indeed…
I have that hair now. Checkmate!
The reflective belt should have figured into this UI more.
With the right combination of mushrooms you probably see the wifi electromagnetic waves in these colors.
You keep drinking the mushroom tea until you are vibrating at the same frequency asthe light waves.
They got the gender right tbf :3
:3
Idk, if you look at it a certain way, we just used radios to transfer instead of light.
The highwaisted pants are already back in and the copper belt could be a flex.
We have three years to crack this mullet though. We need to get moving.
Fwiw, radio waves are light. Just lower in frequency with longer wavelength
Most information is transferred using light, specifically with those desk toys that everybody had in the 90s .
This is just the end of halt and catch fire.
I need to re-watch that
It’s just as good the second time round.
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!
Doesn’t look that far off from a lot of Unix socks posts with the color stripes between the user and multiple monitors.
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.
Alright, flex harder on us cool guy lol
OK, but this was Unix world magazine…
Well there’s your context. Even for nerds it was open land.
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.
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.
If you did it all day everyday you would not be exhausted you would be nice and fit like Tom Cruise.
Hackers was my favorite.
I ONLY hack from a payphone mounted on a turntable.
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.
Have you seen the matrix?
Those fuckers can manipulate all of reality with a few keystrokes.
Hotkeys, bash aliases, and a couple of hacks in perl I bet
Not a programmer but I believe you. I watch a lot of sci fi movies 👀
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.
I’m struggling to remember this episode. Which one is it?
Can’t remember but i think it was mid-series. Dax and the doctor were in the scene iirc. It was in the - y’know, command area outside Sisko’s office.
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 capton belt, and a green-tinted fraggle-hair wig.
That’s how I do it when I’m on ketamine
sometimes you gotta give your smartphone a bit of screen time. Its good for it.
