Flying Cars, Droids & defunct Futuristic Technologies

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Flying Cars, Droids & defunct Futuristic Technologies

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Major inventions in computer technology:
1964. Mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
1973. Internet by ARPA.
1981. Graphical User Interface by Xerox.

Major promises of unrealized technology:
1929. Robots at the World Fair.
1962. Flying cars on the Jetsons.
1965. Warp speed on Star Trek.
1997. Duke Nukem Forever announced.

And we are still waiting on these broken promises. This is the territory of marketing hype, as defined by Webster: excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion. Higgledy-piggledy. Ironically, modern gaming was founded on inventions without hype: GUI, internet, & mouse. So, where are the other promised inventions? Essentially defunct.

Nowhere seen are the joysticks and driving wheels. Nowhere are the point-and-click adventures and flying simulations. Virtual reality? Nowheres.

And nowhere are the flying cars, robots, and starships. Promises that faded away. The question you have to ask yourself is this: have you bought into a fad with eager anticipation, only to find the fad went defunct? Can you identify a current fad in gaming technology that will follow the dodo bird into obscurity?

Please respond pithily.
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Re: Flying Cars, Droids & defunct Futuristic Technologie

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lorax wrote:And nowhere are the flying cars, robots, and starships. Promises that faded away. The question you have to ask yourself is this: have you bought into a fad with eager anticipation, only to find the fad went defunct? Can you identify a current fad in gaming technology that will follow the dodo bird into obscurity?

Please respond pithily.
Fads are generally based on something that exists. Not unrealized future technology (or gaming technology).

You can have hype for things that don't exist or aren't generally available, like the physics card. Not a fad.
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Re: Flying Cars, Droids & defunct Futuristic Technologie

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lorax wrote:
Major promises of unrealized technology:
1929. Robots at the World Fair.
Robots exist.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/nm/science_robots_dc
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/co ... 02,00.html
1962. Flying cars on the Jetsons.
I'm sorry - was the Jetsons designed to be entertainment, or to give a scientific prediction of the future?

1965. Warp speed on Star Trek.
See above.

Though rudamentary Phasers and Transporters have been developed.

Edit: Flying car
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Personally I feel the only valid response is a one-liner.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles promised me that I'd be able to become an evil genius and lose this whole body thing and live in a giant robot. WHen the hell will that happen?
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2005: Lorax promises us pickles.

I have yet to receive my pickle. Lousy hype machine......
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Umm..., so what were mice used for for 17 years? Sorry, the GUI has been around at least as long as the mouse.

Try again.

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Post by Creepy_Smell »

People suck at driving cars. I really dont want to have to deal with everyone flying too.

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Fads

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Post by Two Sheds »

No! Bad Lorax!

BAD.
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Alefroth wrote:Umm..., so what were mice used for for 17 years? Sorry, the GUI has been around at least as long as the mouse.

Try again.

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duh!. they were used for navigating the cursor around on a command prompt. sheesh, such noobs :P
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CeeKay wrote:I have yet to receive my pickle. Lousy hype machine......
Aisle 4. Past the salad dressing, look for the Vlasic label. Be careful to look at the label, otherwise gherkins can be mistaken for pickles. And we all know:

Gherkins ain't pickles!
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