For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.
Goethe’s book “The sorrows of young Werther” caused several suicides of people who emulated the protagonist.
The communicator in Star Trek was an important inspiration for the development of the cell phone and the creators stated that one of their motifs for developing a hand-held telephone was to have something like the Star Trek communicator.
The works of Aristotle; there is probably no more influential set of works that will ever exist.
The translation of his works, into “modern” European languages (Latin, French etc…) can be credibly argued was the beginning of the Renaissance; which lead to the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment.
The Islamic Golden Age also has roots in Aristotle’s work, his and other ancient scholars writings were translated into Arabic; enriching the thought of the many great philosophers of Arabic world. Which (among other things) gave us the basis for modern mathematics.
Final Destination caused an entire generation of drivers to abjectly refuse to take up any space within a quarter mile behind a log truck.
Honestly I got a lot more of that from IdiotsInCars on reddit
That youtube channel is a great way to learn what stupid mistakes drivers commonly make, to know what to look for/avoid.
For anybody wanting to watch the movie so they understand this meme, don’t actually watch Final Destination, because the log scene is not in there. I know this because I watched the whole movie waiting to see it, and never saw it.
The log scene is in Final Destination 2.
That series is so irritating. Basically kids haunted by the ghost of Rube Goldberg.
Final Destination 2 also had the best final kill of the entire franchise. Most of the movie is not great, but the open and close are two of my favorite moments in a cinema.
I’ve never seen the Final Destination movies, but the one with the tanning bed scene came out when I was in high school.
…Interestingly enough, that was right around when the cliquey “cool” girls stopped going to tanning salons in the winter.
I still do this for this exact reason.
Refuse to? Buddy, I’m hunting for them. I don’t have to do this anymore and my family gets a big payout. Sign me up.
Bad news, the scene was CGI’d because logs don’t bounce like that.
Ya just gotta ruin my dreams, eh? /s
I’ve heard that bricks are much more effective IRL.
Might I recommend any given highway in and around Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.
On my way!
I swear this is just an online meme and people are larping about it being a genuine fear.
Never seen the movies but I 100% would change lanes to avoid driving behind a log truck. I do it for other trucks, too, if they’re carrying what look like barely-strapped-down loads.
I never even considered that this wouldn’t be a common fear lol.
I can tell you it’s true for at least one person.
First thing that came to mind is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle which led to, among other things, the creation of the FDA.
That wasn’t his goal though; he’s quoted as saying: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
I know, the whole book is about how America is a giant con to get immigrants to come over so they can be exploited for profit then left to die with they can no longer work 12 hour shifts, meanwhile they get to watch their kids get poisoned by companies, ran over by commercial trucks and robbed of any dignity or chance they deserve.
Instead people read it and were like ‘omg some filthy polacks finger could be in my sausage, that’s disgusting!’
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Damn, shrinkflation hitting everything
There was a minor news story about a decade ago about Tyson getting caught employing minors on the meat packing floor.
Star Trek introduced a lot of the first concepts of what we currently use as every day technology, it had a first hand tangible impact on the lives of pretty much every human alive today.
Hey I love star trek as much as the next guy but this is a bit of an overstatement.
They didn’t invent anything, it’s just a portrayal of what the future might look like.
Some of it is very obvious and not much of a prediction: like a hand held device with sensors - but they did get the form factor and use cases completely wrong.
Most of it is obviously remains fictional, like transporters.
Sorry if you want to say trek predicted the future you have to ignore the majority of the show which they got completely wrong.
Nowhere did I say they invented anything nor predicted the future. Learn some reading comprehension.
Oh sorry, it’s just that you seemed to be saying that star trek changed the world by introducing the first concepts of tech we used today.
It did. Do you not understand the difference between invention and first concept? I never gave them credit for everything, but it’s indisputable that the cell phone was inspired directly by Star Trek communicators, that is according to the inventor of the first cell phone, as well as the concept of multi-funtion interface devices which is exactly what you’re likely holding in your hand at this very moment which is also a cell phone.
Feel free to die on that hill, but what I’m saying is an objective fact.
LOL.
There’s some “objective facts” in that guys memoirs aparently:
As Martin Cooper reveals in his new memoir Cutting the Cord: The Creator of the Cell Phone Speaks Out, cellular technology was actually being developed in the late ’50s and through the ’60s. By the time Star Trek debuted in 1966, Cooper and his team at Motorola were practically in the home stretch; in 1973, they debuted the first-ever handheld mobile telephone, the brick-like DynaTAC. Cooper himself made the first cell phone call on October 17, 1973—to his chief competitor at AT&T, with whom he’d been in a bit of a cellular space race, as revealed in the book
The article goes on to explain coopers role in the star trek myth.
Very obviously, handheld devices were inevitable and predictable in the 60s when ToS was written. That was my original point.
See, it’s this kind of shit, this is exactly why people can’t fucking stand contrarians. Jesus fucking christ, get a life.
Ok let’s recap:
- you trot out something you learned from some shatner edutainment you saw, as fact
- assertion does not withstand a moment’s critical thought
- you double down with some ad hominem and some “objective facts”
- facts are proven false by your own purported source
- you triple down with more ad hominem, because of course you’re not the problem.
This pattern of interaction is common among a particular type of person. I’ll give you a tip for free: it’s not smart people.
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Geordi is also why I became an engineer.
Hell yeah.
Jurassic Park caused a lot more kids to be interested in growing up to be paleantologists. Ironically, they went on to prove some of the science in the movie wrong
Somwhow, no one has mentioned Lord of the Rings, which basically invented modern fantasy.
This. You might have never read or seen LotR, but your idea of medieval fantasy is essentially LotR, I love a quote by Terry Pratchett:
J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.
GNU Terry Pratchett
That’s a great quote, thank you!
GNU Terry Pratchett
your idea of medieval fantasie is essentially LotR
I mean yeah, because Tolking also just drew from his local fables and sagas. European Volktales are all about dwarfs, elves, creatues in the mountains, corruption, evil forces and lords, magic objects, wizards and brave knights, a royal house in trouble.
Just look at the Nibellung Tale. A pre christian gemanic tale
GNU Sir pTerry.
It’s a foundational work, but I’d argue that modern fantasy is more of a synthesis of LOTR and Conan the Barbarian.
The Matrix; check out “the internet” for some examples of its influence.
Fun fact, the Internet was around long before The Matrix. We even had fledgling VR before then. Google VRML and The Lawnmwer Man.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a Sliders episode (probably from 98) where everybody is wearing VR goggles
Do you mean The Matrix the movie, or The Matrix the thing William Gibson created in 1983?
Maybe the 1850s rebrand of 3000 year old math concept of arrays?
I still remember the long lines on launch day.
They keep saying consume product, but no one ever talks about Kronecker product…
The Matrix was very much an expression of a subset of hacker culture of its time. Not a trendsetter.
It also gave us Elon Musk…
No. Fuck no.
Ye. Thats where this whole “we live in a simulation” comes from that elon is a follower off
He is an asshole from birth, no need to assign blame to any external entity.
I didnt blame him geing an asshole on matrix?!?!
You did say matrix “gave us Elon”. What did you mean by that, then?
The 24 hour news cycle. It made the news dependent on ratings and turned into an entertainment medium to fill all of the extra hours. Before that, it was a half hour of local news and a half hour of national news at dinner time and at bedtime with snippets of news in the morning on things like the Today Show. CNN created a format, Fox added imaginary outrage, and things went downhill from there.
Outrage sells better than sex does.
The Hindenburg crash. If it weren’t for the newsreel, it would have been a unique airship crash and the airships would have continued to fly. But because it was shown in every theater as a newsreel for months, the interest in airship travel tanked and fleets were dismantled. It was actually a safe form of travel for the time. While tragic, only 35 people actually died, which is peanuts to a large air liner crash.
It’s actually crazy to me that cruise ships exist but cruise zeppelins don’t. You are telling me me there isn’t a market for a treetop rainforest cruise because of a crash from almost 100 years ago but people will still fly on a 737???
A cruise zeppelin could only work as an extreme luxury thing. A ship can carry tons of stuff, but a zeppelin is pretty limited, especially compared to the size of one.
For sure, it would be stupid expensive, it still surprises me that it nobody has tried it.
I will never forgive them for what they stole from us
And 62 of the 97 survived. It blew my mind to learn that.
I remember reading that most airships at the time used helium, but due to the war Germany had to use hydrogen instead. This is what made the hindenburg explode.
If they had used helium there wouldn’t have been any issue.
At the time the US was really the only country with helium and we wouldn’t sell it to them.
(Personal case, but i think i am not alone) I have been interested in science since Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, i was a kid when it aired.
For me it’s Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Beekman’s world was on around the same time. I used to love watching them both, although I don’t remember much of either of them
Also, does anyone remember Mr. Wizard?
The book Unsafe at Any Speed was partly responsible for the formation of both the US Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Nader should’ve been president dammit
Afaik it basically introduced automotive safety as a thing in the US. People just didn’t care before.
How about war of the worlds radio broadcast?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
Dracula and Frankenstein both came out during the same year, 1931. Dracula was so popular in early 1931 that they were able to do all of Frankenstein by the end of the year. Can you imagine?
Those two began the modern era of horror. Modern being not silent.
I guess talking about a movie? Frankenstein book came out in 1818 and Dracula book came out 1897.
They mention the silent and modern era. Obviously talking about audiobooks.
Book on phonograph.
They must be: Dracula 1931 and Frankenstein 1931
By that time ‘Dracula’ was already plagiarized as ‘Nosferatu’ in 1922, since F.W. Murnau wasn’t given the rights to adapt ‘Dracula’, so he shrugged his shoulders, changed a few things and made his own film. Inventing some stuff on the way like Nosferatu being affected by sunlight, about which Dracula and folklore vampires never gave a shit.
The 1931 ‘Dracula’ is notable partly due to its set having been used at nights to make a Spanish-language version in parallel. Which is considered better than the English-language one, because its crew had access to the English dailies and could check what worked and what didn’t.
Well it certainly didn’t leave me silent
