Today's 'stuff' getting old.

Misc · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Karma :

Was thinking about some of today's 'stuff' like cars & gadgets, will they ever be seen as old fashioned or old looking? Around 50 years ago when they had those Cadillac cars with the pointy wings, people probably thought that you can't get any better. But now we look back & they're so old fashioned. But with today's cars/gadgets, i just can't see that happening.

I just can't imagine someone in 20 years time looking back at a Ferrari Enzo or a Veyron, thinking they look old fashioned. Even against the future cars we see in movies today, they hold up well. Same with our gadgets. We've got phones were we can watch movies & control everything with a finger, how more advanced can you get? Obviously there's still a huge amount that can be done but i can never see something like the iphone type phones becoming old fashioned like the Nokia 3310 which at the time, were amazing.

Same with gaming, i can't imagine our current next gen gaming being so old that it's almost like comparing an xbox with an Atari 2600.

I'm in the present so i'm obviously going to think all this, just like they probably thought back when they first had T.Vs, how could that of got any better?

Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Think all those things will look old and dated in a short time.

Why have a bulky phone to have a screen if someone can package up a 3d projected display? That would make any current phone look bulky and old.

Cars will look old. Possibly because they are still styled while normal cars just become more and more like washing machines (ie, boring things that do a job and less and less people care what they look like).

As to games, I expect that a full immersive 3d game will make Call Of Duty look about as advanced as Pacman. In actual style not sure that much has really happened since Doom in 1993 (sure graphics have massively improved as computers have come to support it, but the basic style is much the same).

To an extent what surprises me is how little things have really changed in the last 15~20 years. The big jumps were then, the only extra we get now are refinements of old ideas.

All the best

Keith
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Clanger · Stirrer Joined: 27 May 2004 Karma :

I'm sure the fact that all new bikes at the moment are so angular looking will mean that in the future we'll look back and think they belong to a specific era...and hence be dated. Idea

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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

The internal-combustion engine is a piece of brute-force primitive junk. I don't think it can be much longer before we have solid-state anti-gravity drive, powered by zero-point energy.

iPods, mobile phones etc, they'll be an ear-insert which will interface directly with the brain, operated by thought. The current stuff will be laughed at.
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My thoughts on this are complex, so stick with me on this one, I will get to the point in the end!

Personally I think we've reached the limit of what society will achieve. Science is going too far and needs to be put into check! I believe we know too much and it's ruining our happiness... What happens if the LHC proves god doesn't exist? what if machines make us redundant in the work place? we'll have nothing to believe in and nothing to do with our time... One word springs to mind... Anarchy!

I believe the only way is backwards. Look at the 40's and 50's... We still had the proper lower/working/middle/upper classes, everyone knew their place and was happy. Whole streets of people worked in the same factory/mine/mill man and boy. Nowadays everyone wants to be a "manager", they want to sit at the top of the ladder looking down... But a society of Alphas can never work! Society as we know it needs to be radically overhauled.

Consequently, in answer to the question... No, todays stuff will not look old fashioned as there will be no record of it! The leaders of the world will have destroyed all traces of "the old ways" to keep society from being so stupid as to try and advance itself to the point of destruction again.

Thats just my view anyways (and in no influenced by the fact I've just finished reading "Brave New World")

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lostboy · Crazy Courier Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Karma :

Actually in 50 years we will look back and say how great the designs were, granted we'll probably all be senile, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and although your car will probably drive itself and your tv make you a cup of tea during the adverts the functions will be basically the same, the original conception will seem outdated most rapid technological advances have come in times of war so unless there's another world war or aliens land I'm afraid our wheelchairs will still have wheels but take solace cos the nursing homes will be full of people listening to heavy metal.
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The999Kid · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Karma :

I'd Love to see a "Minority Report" style computer come into effect.

Would be cool to control everything with 2 fingers and a thumb on each hand.
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watch back to the future, you will laugh at how the 80's tech is so advanced to the 50's stuff. they made cam corders seem so advanced yet look at that now and it seems so outdated. same with cars, delorean was futuristic to them and now it looks so 80's.

there was a guy on dragons den iirc that had mobile phones that were so small they could be implanted into your ears, wasnt perfect so was rejected. but i can see something like that being introduced one day.

i can imagine electric vehicles taking over i.c.e when they perfect lightweight high/fast long lasting batteries.
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BigAndy1979 · Derestricted Danger Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Karma :

You don't need a LHC to discover if God exists or not, it's simple, just ask him/her if he/she exists.

If you don't get an answer then it's obvious, he doesn't exist! If you do, go get some help your probably mental.

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MattHirst · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Karma :

Not to mention that's probably why kids can't spell.

They seem to do everything on a computer these days, you spell it wrong then the computer corrects it for you so there really isn't any need for them to learn to spell.
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