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sometimes you gotta give your smartphone a bit of screen time. Its good for it.
I’m not gonna comment on the fashion, as I’m sure that can’t be accurately predicted (hell, I’m not outruling that this prediction might prove accurate in three years…)
But have you noticed that all sci-fi movies have fucking terrible UIs and means of interacting with computers?
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You’d be fucking exhausted and crying from the muscle strain.
Keyboard and mouse have been standard for half a century now, and for a good reason. Something else will probably replace it at some point, but YMCA-dancing the instructions will not be it.
Take for example Minority Report: Holographic screens are cool I guess. But then they stand there and flail their arms around to move objects and entities back and forth. Now, imagine controlling a computer for an entire work day like that; You’d be fucking exhausted.
I like to think he’s just fucking extra. If you rewatch the scene, another dude is working on a pretty normal computer setup, sitting at a desk, not flailing around wildly, normal sized monitor (except the monitor is transparent), etc. He seems to have the option to do gesture interaction too as he selects and moves some images with his pinky pointed at the screen, but seems like there is still a keyboard-like or touchpad interface on the desk. Then they transfer data over with a weird physical drive to Tom Cruise’s giant curved monitor and gesture controlled setup using the gloves. He’s just an early adopter into more experimental tech formats, like the rich kids who had the power glove for the Nintendo, or someone who has a 8k 60inch curved monitor. I bet even the amount of movements he is putting into the gestures is entirely unnecessary and over the top. He just thinks it’s cool.
On the other hand you have Star Trek, which basically invented our modern computing interfaces that aren’t keyboard and mouse.
Yup, they just never figured out to have fuses and relays in the instrument panels. No wonder Geordi is blind.
The sparks are just the UI telling you someone is attacking. Think of it like force feedback on a controller.
There’s an episode of DS9 where they use pen-based computing for a scene. It’s hilarious.
I’m struggling to remember this episode. Which one is it?
Can’t remember but i think it was mid-series. Dax and the doctor were in the scene iirc. It was in the - y’know, command area outside Sisko’s office.
Hackers was my favorite.
I ONLY hack from a payphone mounted on a turntable.
If you did it all day everyday you would not be exhausted you would be nice and fit like Tom Cruise.
Have you seen the matrix?
Those fuckers can manipulate all of reality with a few keystrokes.
Hotkeys, bash aliases, and a couple of hacks in perl I bet
Not a programmer but I believe you. I watch a lot of sci fi movies 👀
Fashion repeats every 20 to 30 years.
Yes. 20 to 30 years ago I had long black hair and looked like the average black metal enthusiast. However, when people weren’t looking I wore a white jumpsuit with capton belt, and a green-tinted fraggle-hair wig.
Kids, gather round. Grampa Simpson needs to tell you something about the times as they was.
Computer concepts that structure our everyday lives were not just unknown to everybody you knew, for most of them they simply made no sense.
Desktop, mouse, file folder (or if 1337, ‘directory’), pixel, distributed, packets - hell the concept of ‘online’ (or “cyberspace” to my peeps. Sup y’all) was more than they cared to grasp and they would just tune out and immediately forget anything you’d said about it.
When this picture was conceived, the amount of people who used computers to talk to other people on a daily basis would have fit in a sportsball stadium. The rest of us lucky enough to have some beige box to kick around were only dreaming. AOL was still half a decade away.
Everyone else in the world - and definitely all of your teachers, parents, extended family, any grown up not already a maths graduate - had NO idea, didn’t want to know, and thought you were weird for caring.
OK, but this was Unix world magazine…
Well there’s your context. Even for nerds it was open land.
This is 100% accurate.
I grew up in the sprawling suburbs where every other kid had a moped and a swimming pool, but next to nobody had a computer.
My giant middle school, with thousands of kids had a computer club. And there was a grand total of 8 of us computer-owning nerds. Not to mention my Apple ][e cost something $4000 (USD) in todays money.
Alright, flex harder on us cool guy lol
I’m so excited! I just can’t hide it! I’m about to lose control and I think I like it! Oooh, yeah!
Damn you, now I have that song in my head.
Tune wedgie!
Hahaha, I’ve never heard this term before, it’s perfect!
Doin’ the neutron dance?
What song is this
I’m so excited.
Please calm down then.
And then try to answer the question.“You are sad,” the Knight said in an anxious tone: “let me sing you a song to comfort you.”
“Is it very long?” Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
“It’s long,” said the Knight, “but very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it—either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else—”
“Or else what?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
“Or else it doesn’t, you know. The name of the song is called ‘Haddocks’ Eyes’.”
“Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?” Alice said, trying to feel interested.
“No, you don’t understand,” the Knight said, looking a little vexed.
“That’s what the name is called. The name really is ‘The Aged Aged Man’.”
“Then I ought to have said ‘That’s what the song is called’?” Alice corrected herself.
“No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The song is called ‘Ways And Means’: but that’s only what it’s called, you know!”
“Well, what is the song, then?” said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
“I was coming to that,” the Knight said. “The song really is ‘A-sitting On A Gate’: and the tune’s my own invention.”
Yeah I see, but what is the song called?
The pointer sisters, OK!
Right on, daddy-o!
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Oh man, I can’t wait!
The Network-Over-CareBear-Stare-Protocol will be much faster, more reliable, and more secure than ethernet and wifi!
The best part is that its real and reading the article does nothing to explain what is going on in the picture.
So it might just be what some photographer randomly thought up.
When your only tool is the refraction of light, etc.
Does anyone have the entire magazine archived? I want to find out exactly where they were in computing.
losers using keyboard and mouse or even touchscreen, all my homies use rainbow pads, gayest and best eay to use the Internet
This was some prophet’s interpretation of what later became Linux socks.
For some reason it doesn’t feel too far off from scanning QR codes.
Except that she’s smiling while she does it.
Bluetooth and Wifi are also what that idea might be. Wirelessly moving data from a storage device to your PC.
Well, Bluetooth has been around for over a quarter century and it’s still the same old unreliable, roll a six to start standard it ever was. The sooner we switch to rainbow lasers the better
Yep.
+screen casting
+app interactions
Idk, if you look at it a certain way, we just used radios to transfer instead of light.
The highwaisted pants are already back in and the copper belt could be a flex.
We have three years to crack this mullet though. We need to get moving.
Most information is transferred using light, specifically with those desk toys that everybody had in the 90s .
Fwiw, radio waves are light. Just lower in frequency with longer wavelength
That’s how I do it when I’m on ketamine
The haircut is just Yolandi’s cut dyed silver. So we’re halfway there.
We’re actually ahead of schedule. That’s how I show the computer my fake ID. McLovin, organ donor, Hawaii.
Funny enough you actually need to show ID to buy bitcoin to donate Annas archive.
I do believe CRTs are going to make a comeback.
But for a vastly different reason.
well … whats the reason? :3
As much as I want them to, I don’t think they will. Incredibly expensive to retool manufacturing to produce the tubes again. Who knows though maybe a rich retro gamer would invest.
Dare I ask?
Alien aesthetics mainly, it goes well with the oligarchic world order.
Love me some cassette futurism.
Is that an ashtray in the 2nd GIF, bottom-left?
Yes.
Smoking was mandatory back then in the future.
Super smash bros competitions, obviously.
Close. HERF guns.
Hans-exclusive radical feminists?
