There was a thread in GD a few days ago about so-called "future technology" never arriving. The OP basically said technology has not changed much in the last 15-or-so years.
Which got me thinking: [i]Just how much [b]has[/b] technology improved in the last decade?[/i]
Well to start with, we have mobile phones. Both these two phones were/are classed as top-of-the-range, and the very cutting edge of mobile phone technology, from 2000 and 2010:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/mobile_phones.png[/img]
Anyone want a game of Snake?
Then we have laptops. I'm going to use Macs for this example here, as Apple products are generally seen as very modern machines. The MacBook wasn't introduced until 2006, but the equivalent before that was the iBook, which resembled a clamshell:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/apple_laptops.png[/img]
The iBooks must have been an absolute bitch to store anywhere.
Of course, video games have improved vastly and will continue to do so, but what games generally pay more attention to detail than the FPS? Although these games aren't necessarily 2000-2010 (although preview screenshots of Rage have been released so we are looking at 2010 graphics), I feel they quite well reflect the technology of the time, and both are based on the same engine:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/fps_games.png[/img]
And what about data storage? An average hard-drive in 2000 would have a capacity of between 10 and 20 Gigabytes, so in order to achieve a storage capacity of, say, 160GB, you'd need a whopping ten of these drives (as well as more than a few slave ports available :v:). Now, Kingston have released an external hard drive for a mere $88:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/data_storage.png[/img]
These are four rather limited examples, but you can see just how much technology has improved in the first ten years of this millenium.
And if I were to make this thread again in 2020, who knows? Would we be laughing at those ridiculously bulky MacBook Pros, or the meagre amount f storage you can fit in the palm f your hand?
Hope you enjoyed the read brahs.
Holy balls.
From big boxes into thin, 3D TVs. :buddy:
If you think of just in the last century, it is unbelievable.
thank you for this informative post about the vast change of technology over the years. i wouldn't have realized it without the help of this thread.
Technology certainly moves fast.. The hard drive's made me laugh.
"Alllll these, became that!"
Holy shit.
Sadly, humanity's overall intelligence seems to be progressing backwards proportional to the technology advancing forwards.
This thread is making me feel incredibly old.
[QUOTE=DrLuke;23767234]Sadly, humanity's overall intelligence seems to be progressing backwards proportional to the technology advancing forwards.[/QUOTE]
blindingly dumb generalization you've got there
Soon enough we can replace lost limbs with fully functional bionic limbs.
Wow that iBook thing is ugly.
If you ask me then our technology is progressing slow fast.
As in I find it to go pretty slow, but in reality it's going fast.
[QUOTE=DrLuke;23767234]Sadly, humanity's overall intelligence seems to be progressing backwards proportional to the technology advancing forwards.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, no. Stop being a pessimistic fuck that sees one example and combs everyone under it.
Never really thought about the cell phone changes. That's incredible that we have come that far in only 10 years.
My phone still looks like the 1999 one. :v:
And we all can't forget the horror that is "Dial up" :v:
[QUOTE=acidcj;23767413]My phone still looks like the 1999 one. :v:[/QUOTE]
Mine's only slightly newer than that one, got it in the early 2000s. I never really saw the need to get a new phone every couple of months like a lot of people seem to do. That might just be because I've had it for that long and used it so little that I still have £13 on it to use and I haven't topped up since I got it.
[QUOTE=DrLuke;23767234]Sadly, humanity's overall intelligence seems to be progressing backwards proportional to the technology advancing forwards.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.heksengilde.nl/attachments/Image/burning_witch.jpg[/img]
yeah man look how smart we were then
to think that now no one can recognize the witch menace
I remember the iBook.
God I am a nerd.
[IMG]http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8066/led20tv.jpg[/IMG]
Can't find a picture of a year 2000 TV's but if my memory is right, Those "Flatscreen" CRT TV's with the black or silver case were still common, and Plasma's and LCD's were pretty expensive.
[img]http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6118/p1000538w.jpg[/img]
my brother bought something like this around 2001.
Sadly enough, it's only the upper few percent of humanity who have access to those things, 2000 and 2010. And in the end, nothing changed at all.
Old technology looked cooler.
[img]http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/images/PH2401.jpg[/img]
[img]http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/ibm-pc-5150.jpg[/img]
But that's just me.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;23767476][img]http://www.heksengilde.nl/attachments/Image/burning_witch.jpg[/img]
yeah man look how smart we were then
to think that now no one can recognize the witch menace[/QUOTE]
What's any different to the callout threads or the media-massacres we see nowadays? The mindset is the same. Someone who has the means shouts something into the crowd, church or anchorman, many people follow.
[QUOTE=Killuah;23767581]What's any different to the callout threads or the media-massacres we see nowadays? The mindset is the same. Someone who has the means shouts something into the crowd, church or anchorman, many people follow.[/QUOTE]
and yet no one is burned alive, strange.
[QUOTE=OvB;23767505][img]http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6118/p1000538w.jpg[/img]
my brother bought something like this around 2001.[/QUOTE]
I still have something like that.
It's a fucking whore to play newer games on the 360 because they insist on making the text small on older tvs.
[QUOTE=Killuah;23767581]What's any different to the callout threads or the media-massacres we see nowadays? The mindset is the same. Someone who has the means shouts something into the crowd, church or anchorman, many people follow.[/QUOTE]
You can't group the entirety of humanity with a small percentage of people.
Even the people that do do this now-a-days, it usually doesn't end in someone being burned alive.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;23767557]Old technology looked cooler.
[img]http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/images/PH2401.jpg[/img]
[img]http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/ibm-pc-5150.jpg[/img]
But that's just me.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://blog.makezine.com/_wikipedia_commons_thumb_b_b1_Vinyl_record_LP_10inch.JPG_800px-Vinyl_record_LP_10inch.jpg[/img]
YES IT DID
[QUOTE=Xionasis;23767626]You can't group the entirety of humanity with a small percentage of people.
Even the people that do do this now-a-days, it usually doesn't end in someone being burned alive.[/QUOTE]
Yea well that's true but still, the mindset stays the same, doesn't it?
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;23767066]The OP basically said technology has not changed much in the last 15-or-so years.[/QUOTE]
the fuck, everyone knows the growth rate of technology is getting geometrically higher
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