Half-Life 3
I recently played HL2 again and it’s still awesome.
A functional healthcare system.
We have one!
Oh wait, you don’t lol
I was born in the 1980s. I remember growing up, I always had the impression that by this time in the 21st century, we’d have figured out some way to break the established laws of physics. Maybe it was because of watching so much sci-fi, but I feel like I’m not alone in this. The media seemed to reflect the same line of thinking. “Back to the Future 2” with its hoverboards and flying cars is now set several years in the past.
Be it anti-gravity, interstellar travel, teleportation, whatever, I always kind of assumed that by now, we’d at least have a working theory of how we might implement it in the next few decades. I think a lot of that has to do with the start of the “information age.” Computers and the way they could connect us were so revolutionary, it seemed like “magic” to the layperson. More “magic” would only be a few years away, right? If we could fit all this power into a box that sits on your desk, then it wasn’t beyond the scope of reason to think that anything was possible; it’d just take a few more years for us to figure it out, then we’d be planning the first NASA mission to another solar system.
What I never would have predicted is just how rapidly computer technology would advance. We now have supercomputers in our pockets, powered by CPUs that are well into the realm of nanotechnology and are now starting to run into limitations imposed by quantum physics. As a technological society, we’ve probably progressed farther than I would have ever imagined, just not in the way I expected.
Still waiting for my personal jetpack and/or flying car
Most people can’t be trusted operating a ground-dwelling vehicle, I’m fine with not having flying ones yet.
Advanced cybernetics. From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
It’s saddening to see the slow slow progress of cybernetics.
You what?!
Me too. Every morning I wake up and scream in existential terror at the slimy corpuscle that is enveloping my soul.
Fiber to the Home Internet connectivity that was paid for 30 years ago.
We have that!
Oh wait, you don’t lol
Yup. Maybe a bit bitter at US telecoms pocketing the subsidy money from the 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s, without delivering.
The virtual reality you used to see in movies or on TV where you would put on a helmet and actually enter it and have full movement capabilities. Something like that one episode of Batman The Animated Series where Commissioner Gordon goes into the Riddler’s computer and gets trapped or just about any other cliche, dumb way they portrayed VR back then.
We have some cool VR treadmills, one of them thats releasing soon will even only cost $1k (cheap in comparison to every other VR treadmil released previously). Combine that with full body tracking and a good high end headset like the Bigscreen Beyond or Immersed Visor.
I grew up in the '80s. I was expecting either nuclear annihilation or cities on the moon.
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
One could certainly speed up the other
Providing for the needs of all.
Honestly thought I’d see more phones, with desktop modes, replace laptops in day to day life.
I guess with the switch to Arm on laptops this can be possible real soon.
This is happening soon. USB-C seems to be empowering this, and many of us are now running phones with gargantuan specs. The sole remaining issue is the keyboard. If we continued down the keyboard-smartphone route, this would be a no brainer.
Laptops with good build quality, I mean the type of build quality Thinkpads used to have
Honestly, Tuxedo Computers and Framework I think do that.
They do it in comparison to other laptops released today but cannot compete with older Thinkpads. Ive held and personally seen a Framework 16 (arguably their laptop with the best build quality) and I can tell that it has some massive sacrifices. Its not as durable and not built as well most likely due to manufacturing issues, in addition its clearly trying to be somewhat slim which im not a fan of. Im not sure about Tuxedo because theyre basically a German first brand (granted you could technically get it imported but you have to pay over €100 in shipping and additional import fees/customs. Also im pretty sure it’ll take significantly longer). Ok I just checked the build quality looks good (german engineering and manufacturing is famously good) and they sell some hefty laptops, obviously its sold at a very high premium.
more international cooperation for global benefit. instead we have more profit taking from everyone
Wisecracking robots who drink alcohol.
with blackjack and hookers?
First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
What would be the point?
“we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.
Very suspicious if you ask me
Maybe there’s a secret program that They don’t want us to know about.
Maybe they don’t want to go
A blue whale would be impressive.
South Park tried it
And a bowl of petunias.
Not again!
OH I CAN SEE THE WHAAAAAAAALES
LOOOOMING OUT OF THE DAAAAARK
The one thing I feel deprived of, is the proper sci fi aesthetic in our devices.
The beeps, the switches, the UI. All forsaken for an asinine black mirror .
TBF all those sci-fi transparent displays would be terrible to use
