Last night my sister and I had a 90 minute conversation on our phones with full-colour, hi-res video, me in the UK, her in NZ. It didn’t cost either of us anything. We’re in our 70s, such a thing was unimaginable back in the day.
It cost you internet and your privacy. 🤗
The Nazis are back.
In Johnny Mnemonic the upload in the brain was 320GB and he had to erase his childhood memories. Today it would be just a microSD. The story is set in 2021.
and yet we are told that it’s too hard/expensive to add a 16 gb Video Cache to a consumer graphic card.
Uhh very, very, very different type of memory. You could try using a microsd card if you’re happy with 10 spf I guess, I prefer measuring in fps though
Even the 1tb ones cost too much now. What, are data centers using those too??
Transferred demand.
SDDs and HDDs are too expensive, so people are using SD cards instead.
I think it’s more that the companies producing flash storage have shifted their focus to ssds and therefore lowered the supply of SD cards ?
why not both?
Well let’s see. I was a nerdy kid in the 70s, so I should be qualified for this. I have to say though, my wildest dreams set a pretty high bar. I dreamed of cities in space and in the oceans. And on land, we’d build giant fusion-powered arcologies modelled after the space cities that recycled everything we used. We’d spent most of our time in these cities connected by tunnelled maglevs while the rest of the world returned to a more natural state and became a giant wildlife/archaeological park.
But I’m trying to think of what would have blown my mind to learn about back then that actually happened. I think from a technological perspective, I never saw the marriage between computers and telecommunications becoming all that it is today. I had a vague idea of something like a video cell phone, but the idea that you could grab a movie off it from some distant giant computer complex and throw it up on a big screen in your home would’ve made me giddy. And just the quality of the image and the fidelity and depth of sound that could come out of tiny speakers would’ve been shocking. Sound systems were really, really shitty in the 70s. And TVs. Well, let’s just say there was a reason you went to the cinema.
The science nerd in me would also have been blown away by discoveries made since the 70s. Birds are dinosaurs? There were real life hobbits running around on some island in Indonesia? There are ocean moons in our solar system? And if I showed up to explain all this to my kid self, he would not have believed my age when I told him. Medicine is keeping us younger now.
There are ocean moons in our solar system?
Just learned it from your post. That is absolutely mind-blowing!
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Ultrabright LEDs
They were d a r k back then.
me (1999): I just want 1GB of ram and 1TB of hard drive, I can’t see a world where more than that would be necessary.
We were ripping DVD’s to 200mb divx at the time and an OTA cartoon might only be 25mb because SD+compression.
SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Its insane how many things you can do/listen to with a simple cheap USB stick.
waow this is cool
psychedelics (LSD, MDMA, mescaline, psilocybin, etc) as antidepressants or PTSD treatment. It was demonized so hard during the 70s because the govt hates hippies.
Two income households that still can’t afford a single-family home.
Mind blowing but not nerdy.
Full body virtual reality is cheap and affordable ($1-2K vs $145K in 1994 and $Millions in the 70s)
Full body?
👉👌
Full body allows you to move your arms and legs in VR. Joints are approximated using IK, and the more trackers one wears, the closer it approaches to film grade motion capture quality.
