You know you're in the future when...???

[dontpanicbobby]

This is a game where you find something online that when you were a child would have been considered "futuristic" but has now become a reality. Something like that "You Know You're a Redneck..." thing that Jeff Foxworthy does.

3D printed houses are a thing.

 

[Hadron]

You are carrying a device in your pocket which lets you communicate with anyone on the planet, look up almost any piece of information (plus many falsehoods) the human race has produced, take photographs and videos and share them with anyone instantly, play music, watch videos, buy your groceries, pay bills, and manage your diary just by talking to it...

 

[dontpanicbobby]

When you talk "to" your phone more than you talk "on" it.

 

[shalemail]

They put men on the moon with a computer less powerful that the the one in the phone I carried 4 years ago.

 

[GCros]

You know you're in the future when your car parallel parks itself, something you usually do your best to avoid.

How to Parallel Park in 9 Easy Steps: http://www.wikihow.com/Parallel-Park

 

[no one]

You know you're living in the world of tomorrow when, you are commenting in cyber space about how futuristic the present is.

 

[Dngrsone]

I was in the future back when I had a flip-phone... Now, all we are missing is a decent holodeck...

 

[GCros]

You know you're living in the future when instead of paying a housekeeper twice a week to sweep & mop, you buy a robo-vacuum thing to keep your floors (sort-of) clean.

 

[Deleted User]

You're playing video games at home which are better than those in the arcades. And it doesn't cost you a stack of 10p pieces (or quarters).

 

[Deleted User]

You are carrying a device in your pocket which lets you communicate with anyone on the planet, look up almost any piece of information (plus many falsehoods) the human race has produced, take photographs and videos and share them with anyone instantly, play music, watch videos, buy your groceries, pay bills, and manage your diary just by talking to it...

That would be the stuff of science fiction when I was a kid!

 

[Dngrsone]

When I was an instructor oh so many years ago, one of my courses was an automated test bench powered by a '70s-era mainframe.

I explained to my class that the PDA in my pocket (a Palm T|X) has more than enough processing power and memory (RAM and storage) to entirely replace the mainframe, if only there were an appropriate interface and application-set.

Think about how quickly technology has progressed in a short amount of time!

 

[Deleted User]

When I was an instructor oh so many years ago, one of my courses was an automated test bench powered by a '70s-era mainframe.

I explained to my class that the PDA in my pocket (a Palm T|X) has more than enough processing power and memory (RAM and storage) to entirely replace the mainframe, if only there were an appropriate interface and application-set.

Think about how quickly technology has progressed in a short amount of time!

Very true. My first job was in tech support for the onsite Amdahl 5890 mainframe. The whole thing was massive and I can remember them boasting about their huge array of discs, providing 2GB of storage, or something ridiculously small by today's standards. The noise was incredible.
But as much as I marvel at the progress and miniaturisation of computers, there's no doubt that working there was exciting for me as a fresh faced computing graduate. Modern computer systems have no 'soul'.

Our machine room was bigger than this, and we had those washing machine style removable Winchester discs, and tape drives. The place was almost alive. Plus I had the power of super user access to anything! We didn't have to wear white lab coats though.

 

[Dngrsone]

Our disk drives were a whopping 20MB... 18" dual platters, and I was the lucky guy who had to change and align the heads.

 

[Kaizuroge]

The storage device that I use now is as small as my fingernail and can store up to 128 Gb of space while back when I was a kid my storage device was a floppy disk the bigger than a credit card and can only store 3.5mb of space

 

[psionandy]

When you come across this thread...

https://androidforums.com/threads/dream-phone.128413/

.... and think thats a pretty normal low/mid-range phone

 

[Davdi]

Now Elon Musk is serious about colonising Mars.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

When you wish the man who wants to colonize Mars "Good Luck" instead of WTF.

 

[psionandy]

.... Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.

 

[Davdi]

I AM living in the future, it's not as I thought it would be. Were's all the flying cars?

 

[Zigman66]

You know you are in the future when you can tell your fridge to buy more eggs, tell your house to dim the lights, and tell your phone to take notes

 

[Unforgiven]

I can communicate with people all over the world from all walks of life about a common interest like phones or cars instantly.

 

[Deleted User]

I have a GPS receiver device right on my wrist. I still find that totally amazing.

 

[Zigman66]

We are definitely in the future. Elon Musk now has a space faring convertible sports car in orbit!

There is actually a live feed from the cameras mounted on it

 

[Unforgiven]

...they ended up inadvertently overshooting the Roadster's path so it will go clear into the asteroid belt...

I think that part should get some more discussion. Technically, this is a failure if what they launched into space isn't going where they planned.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Back in Time dude.