[QUOTE=Alice3173;52162153]You do realize that we're actually advancing at an ever-quickening pace, right? We've advanced as much technologically since the turn of the century as we did in the entirety of the last century.
You say that the transistor is the last real technological revolution but that's unambiguously false. There's been loads of major technological advancements in the last 20 years alone, just none of them have made it to mainstream manufacturing and usage yet.
There's even experimental things such as memristors which are intended to replace transistors, carbon nanotubes, incredible advancements in the field of AI, fully electric cars, sustainable clean energy, much cheaper space flight, and now even a planned Mars colony. And these are just the things that immediately come to mind for me. I know that there's a number of things that are notable enough for me to mention that I'm spacing at the moment.[/QUOTE]
I think the point he's trying to make is that the advancements we've made in recent times haven't been something which completely flipped the industry upside down and brought us to yet another higher stage of society. I'd argue the most two recent inventions which have really brought forth change are the Internet, and the smart phone. Of course, it's relatively easy to look back at history and identify the points at which something changed irreversibly, versus when it's happening to us now. We're still in the relative infancy of electric vehicles, for instance, and I suspect it's going to become much more adopted and mainstream in the next 15 years, even more so than now. Then in the year 2150, people will look back and say, "In the early 2010s, we made a distinct transition from gas vehicles to electric", even though we know that's not the truth at the present time.
[QUOTE=aznz888;52162178]I think the point he's trying to make is that the advancements we've made in recent times haven't been something which completely flipped the industry upside down and brought us to yet another higher stage of society. I'd argue the most two recent inventions which have really brought forth change are the Internet, and the smart phone. Of course, it's relatively easy to look back at history and identify the points at which something changed irreversibly, versus when it's happening to us now. We're still in the relative infancy of electric vehicles, for instance, and I suspect it's going to become much more adopted and mainstream in the next 15 years, even more so than now. Then in the year 2150, people will look back and say, "In the early 2010s, we made a distinct transition from gas vehicles to electric", even though we know that's not the truth at the present time.[/QUOTE]
Yes and I get that. I'm saying he's wrong though. Even you pointed out that the internet and smartphones have brought about a lot of change. I'd personally argue that the internet is as important an advancement to society as the transistor was. Just, like you said, we're living during that period rather than looking at it in hindsight.
When you're living during a given period you're going to be exposed to all the good and bad. When you're looking back at something in hindsight you're not going to see most of that. You're going to see the best and worst only, the highlights as it were.
Some new Star Wars cut-through pics.
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[url=https://www.artstation.com/artwork/r4AwO]More here![/url]
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[QUOTE]The city of La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880. It was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882.
Urban planner Pedro Benoit designed a city layout based on a rationalist conception of urban centers. The city has the shape of a square with a central park and two main diagonal avenues, north to south and east to west.
In addition, there are numerous other shorter diagonal streets. This design is copied in a self-similar manner in small blocks of six by six blocks in length. For every six blocks, there is a small park or square.
Other than the diagonal streets, all streets are on a rectangular grid and are numbered consecutively. Thus, La Plata is nicknamed "la ciudad de las diagonales" (city of diagonals).[/QUOTE]
I scanned the stereoscopic photos.
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Here's all of them:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/LsPym[/url]
I need to find a better scanner, a lot of detail was lost thanks to 600 dpi + its automatic adjustment shit. These are stereoscopic so you should be able to view them in 3D either by crossing your eyes if you're weird or with a VR headset but the image might kind of suck because of the shitty scans. I also scanned the top and bottom of the original box (luckily the scanner at least let me run it with the lid open or else I wouldn't have been able to)
But uh, technical difficulties aside, what a magnificent time period.
I think the apparent "lack of revolutionary advancements" is more due to perspective than anything. I am asking myself: did things like the lightbulb seem as revolutionary to their inventors as they did to us?
I think that the average person nowadays has access to more information than ever before so yea things seem less novel and groundbreaking than if it was an idea that you had never heard of before.
It was never sudden, sharp jumps in technology, it was always a steadily accumulating body of work. See the thing is that the deployment of these products is what we notice the most because it is actually changing our environment. The spread of the internet and smartphones combined with GPS and satellite imagery has been pretty revolutionary in this context.
Essentially you can see everything now.
Speaking of urban planning, Paris was a shithole back then:
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[quote]The Bievre river was used to dump the waste from the tanneries of Paris; it emptied into the Seine.[/quote]
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[editline]29th April 2017[/editline]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris[/url]
[QUOTE=OvB;52159545]Optimism is dead.
Just kidding. We still do: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2017[/url]
It's just no one cares anymore.
[url]http://time.com/79600/the-fall-of-the-fair/[/url]
[editline]27th April 2017[/editline]
New Castle has a bid for the 2022/23 World's Fair, along with the US state of Minnesota.
The US Cities of Houston, San Francisco, along with New York State have bids for the 2025 world's fair.[/QUOTE]
The san fransisco world's fair's structure was just insane.. the damn thing is massive and you don't even realize the scale of it until you're under it
I didn't realize this but it's actually just the palace of fine arts and wasn't built for the worlds fair.
Here's still a picture of it though
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Turns out i was still wrong but right in the first place
[QUOTE]The Palace of Fine Arts is an important part of San Francisco’s rich history and a symbol of the spirit that makes San Francisco “the city that knows how.“
After the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was anxious to show the world that it had risen from the ashes. So in 1910, business and civic leaders gathered to discuss making San Francisco the site of the century’s first great world’s fair — a grand exposition that would honor the completion of the Panama Canal. In just two hours, they raised $4 million — and beat out competitors New Orleans and Washington, D.C., to host the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition.
Built on 635 acres reclaimed from San Francisco Bay, the exposition featured 11 great exhibit palaces showcasing objects from every corner of the globe, more than 1,500 sculptures commissioned from artists all over the world, 65 acres of amusement concessions, an d an aviation field. Twenty-one countries, 48 U.S. states, and 50 California counties mounted displays in the exhibition’s grand pavilions.[/QUOTE]
Here's the scale to people
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Pablo Escobar standing in front of the White House with his son
German plans for Eastern Europe in the event of a Central Powers victory in WW1:
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That Transcaucasion Republic would have never worked.
Never thought I'd post something like this here but it's really cool:
Claire Danes at last years Met Gala, wearing a dress made with leds, battery packs and lots of optical fiber:
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It is made from weaved fibre-optic?
an animatronic avatar fetus in the queue for the new avatar ride at disney world.
[video=youtube;jqBnmpsIFrU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBnmpsIFrU[/video]
one step closer to sex robots
"Pick up that can, capitalist dog."
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from protests in Paris recently
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[video]https://youtu.be/BOoOpiPWJEc[/video]
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Those beams pushed against the wall are the only thing holding that slum together. They did this in British cities as well with hastily built Victorian tenements until the late 1950's, unsurprisingly quite a few of them collapsed.
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Something about the quaintness of those buildings makes me yearn to live there. I know the whole American dream thing is supposed to be owning a 2 story home with 1.5 acres of land but I would much prefer just a small apartment or townhouse in a beautiful city. Preferably without the exposed beams holding up the entire building.
You're thinking too much assassin's creed and other art that romanticizes the hell out of it.
It looks interesting sure, but as interesting as any other foreign thing, but if you actually live there it just becomes boring and common like the ocean or mountains. Worse yet you would have to deal with filth, diseases, slave labor, no health care, and basically no way to keep track of most crime. To think out of all that you would be a victor over a victim is more likely you being struck by lightning. Hell you would already probably be considered an older man in that time period. Not to mention the smell.
[QUOTE=Propane Addict;52175168]Something about the quaintness of those buildings makes me yearn to live there. I know the whole American dream thing is supposed to be owning a 2 story home with 1.5 acres of land but I would much prefer just a small apartment or townhouse in a beautiful city. Preferably without the exposed beams holding up the entire building.[/QUOTE]
I want a detached house so I can be a noisy cunt without consequence.
[QUOTE=1chains1;52175847]You're thinking too much assassin's creed and other art that romanticizes the hell out of it.
It looks interesting sure, but as interesting as any other foreign thing, but if you actually live there it just becomes boring and common like the ocean or mountains. Worse yet you would have to deal with filth, diseases, slave labor, no health care, and basically no way to keep track of most crime. To think out of all that you would be a victor over a victim is more likely you being struck by lightning. Hell you would already probably be considered an older man in that time period. Not to mention the smell.[/QUOTE]
Oh god no I didn't mean that time period, I just meant that style of building in the modern day. It has than old Europe charm that doesn't really exist in America. I'd rather be drawn and quartered than live in the past.
[QUOTE=Propane Addict;52177261]Oh god no I didn't mean that time period, I just meant that style of building in the modern day. It has than old Europe charm that doesn't really exist in America. I'd rather be drawn and quartered than live in the past.[/QUOTE]
There are plenty of small towns and areas of some big cities with housing like that. I live in Kentucky and there are shotgun houses everywhere. Skyscrapers in the cities and suburbia in the outskirts has eaten so many classical styled houses but you can definitely find them still.
[QUOTE=Propane Addict;52177261]Oh god no I didn't mean that time period, I just meant that style of building in the modern day. It has than old Europe charm that doesn't really exist in America. I'd rather be drawn and quartered than live in the past.[/QUOTE]
You'll find old charm in old cities. There are a few old survived 100+ year old downtown buildings here that have been converted into lofts and shops and its like stepping into a time machine. They're fun to go into and wonder about their past and history.
Meanwhile i can go outside my door and look at a church from the medieval period. Or a merchant's house from the late renaissance.
I get to look outside and see this
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[quote]The Fortress of Louisbourg is the largest reconstruction project in North America. The original settlement was founded in 1713 by the French and developed over several decades into a thriving center for fishing and trade. Fortified against the threat of British invasion during the turbulent time of empire-building, Louisbourg was besieged twice before finally being destroyed in the 1760s. The site lay untouched until well into modern times, when archaeologists began to reconstruct the fortress as it was in the 18th century.
Thanks to their efforts and the work of Parks Canada and the Fortress Louisbourg Association, you can now experience life in Louisbourg during its heyday. There are more than a dozen buildings open to the public including three authentic working 18th century restaurants. During the summer months hundreds of re-enactors or “animators” of all ages, from wealthy merchants to poor soldiers, populate the streets of the restored fortress working, playing, and living life as they would have in 1744.[/quote]
You can read the full story here if you like: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Louisbourg[/url]
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Churchill sitting on what remains of Hitler's armchair
Imagine what an incredibly valuable piece of furniture that would be today - having been not only owned by Hitler, but subsequently photographed being sat in by Churchill. Wonder what happened to it.
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