Is the future here?

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master baiter

Discussion Starter · Jan 10, 2009

Remember as a kid watching Star Trek? They had held devices and they could talk to each other and we all thought WOW! Computers were things that we only dreamt about.Tv`s were big brown boxes that you had to get of your arse to change one of the 3 channels and at midnight they played the queen.And if the tv broke down you thumped it,or your uncle came around with a biscuit tin full of valves?
What do we have now that as a kid you thought was impossible?
Is the future here?

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Gus Smith

· #2 · Jan 10, 2009

haha! watching voyager now! :lol:

weena

· #3 · Jan 10, 2009

we are the future - just waiting for doc brown to turn up to take be back to it

Frugal

· #4 · Jan 10, 2009

Can't be, I was told it was orange.

johnnyhotdog

· #5 · Jan 10, 2009

you want to read brave new world revisited. that'll shit you up about the future/now.

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jan 10, 2009

I remember the first computer game I ever seen was Atari Tennis
and I can remember thinking "how do they do that?" We had to turn the buttons on the TV to tune it in.:lol: What would kids make of that now?

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johnnyhotdog

· #7 · Jan 10, 2009

master baiter said:
What would kids make of that now?

they'd say "that's pish yah auld dick - are you a fuckin' paedo, yah fanny?"

then they'd run away. at least they would here.

JustinOval

· #8 · Jan 10, 2009

Wii tennis isn't far off in terms of playability funnily enough. :lol:

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #9 · Jan 10, 2009

johnnyhotdog said:
they'd say "that's pish yah auld dick - are you a fuckin' paedo, yah fanny?"

then they'd run away. at least they would here.

:lol::lol::lol:

I didnt even know what a peado was.I just knew that some men were a bit "odd"

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #10 · Jan 10, 2009

JustinOval said:
Wii tennis isn't far off in terms of playability funnily enough. :lol:

I`am going to get me that.

JustinOval

· #11 · Jan 10, 2009

Bluetooth earpieces are very futuristic, I could picture them on 'Tomorrows World'

Frugal

· #12 · Jan 10, 2009

Indeed, Atari Tennis was wonderful.
I remember getting Frogger as a kid, and was blown away by the use of colour, I think they had 16 colours to use. (May be factually incorrect, don't strike me down):incheek:

clarkson

· #13 · Jan 10, 2009

master baiter said:
Remember as a kid watching Star Trek? They had held devices and they could talk to each other and we all thought WOW! Computers were things that we only dreamt about.Tv`s were big brown boxes that you had to get of your arse to change one of the 3 channels and at midnight they played the queen.And if the tv broke down you thumped it,or your uncle came around with a biscuit tin full of valves?
What do we have now that as a kid you thought was impossible?
Is the future here?

It has already passed my expectations.

Volkspirate Jim

· #14 · Jan 10, 2009

master baiter said:
I remember the first computer game I ever seen was Atari Tennis
and I can remember thinking "how do they do that?" We had to turn the buttons on the TV to tune it in.:lol: What would kids make of that now?

HAHAHAHAHAHA Your olllllllllllllllllllllllld

*runs away*

:incheek:

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #15 · Jan 10, 2009

JustinOval said:
Bluetooth earpieces are very futuristic, I could picture them on 'Tomorrows World'

Now yer talkin! Imagine as a youngster all them years back,talkin to someone from a car!! That would be real sci-fi stuff.

You`d be a real James bond.:lol:

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #16 · Jan 10, 2009

clarkson said:
It has already passed my expectations.

Mine too.

Satellite dishes outside houses,and as much music as you want inside a small box.

master baiter

Discussion Starter · #17 · Jan 10, 2009

Volkspirate Jim said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA Your olllllllllllllllllllllllld

*runs away*

:incheek:

It was`nt that long ago you know.

Volkspirate Jim

· #18 · Jan 10, 2009

I was watching one of Jeremy clarksons old documentarys on dave and it still pretty crazy to think that the big computer they had at Bletchly park took up an entire shed and stuff with more processing capabilitys can now be fitted into stuff that you put in you pocket.

dirty di

· #19 · Jan 10, 2009

mobile phones have to be one of the things that strike me as impossible when i was a nipper, the phone box was the thing, then you had to put in 2p per call

god i'm old :lol:

everything is so instant now, information at your fingertips and talking to people through a box full of wires and metal bits :lol:

Volkspirate Jim

· #20 · Jan 10, 2009

master baiter said:
It was`nt that long ago you know.

You sure or is your memory playing tricks on you again gramps?

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