Greetings Professor Falken
Sunday, February 10, 2002 by MobiusCo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Mindless night and just finished watching Wargames. This reminded me of the start of all of this. The days when you have green displays, games did not even have graphics, but strictly text. You spend more time learning the exact wording to us in the game then the storyline itself. Pre-floppy discs, intering code via punch cards, the weekends in padded rooms if you spilled a box.
In such a short time things have come so far, my first real computer was a osborne portable ( haha the size of a suitcase and the weight of a VW bug) but it was one hell of a machine for the time. Now a cell phone has more processing power and abilities. This makes me wonder, some of us have been into this stuff since those good old days, but it makes me wonder if we have achieved this much is such a short time, where will this industry and community be in another 20+ yrs.
Where do you think the computer industry and communities will be in 20+ years?
my hope, within 10 yrs to be able to plug our minds directly into the net.
In such a short time things have come so far, my first real computer was a osborne portable ( haha the size of a suitcase and the weight of a VW bug) but it was one hell of a machine for the time. Now a cell phone has more processing power and abilities. This makes me wonder, some of us have been into this stuff since those good old days, but it makes me wonder if we have achieved this much is such a short time, where will this industry and community be in another 20+ yrs.
Where do you think the computer industry and communities will be in 20+ years?
my hope, within 10 yrs to be able to plug our minds directly into the net.
Frogboy
Reply #2 Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:26 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:26 PM
I was watching that too at the same time yesterday. 
Hell Dragon
Reply #3 Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:44 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:44 PM
I must admit controlling a navigation system with your mind does sound like a cool idea.
Imagine playing Quake VII with your mind running on a GeForce 8 with some VR shades beaming the image direct to your retinas... now that would be a hell of an experience
Imagine playing Quake VII with your mind running on a GeForce 8 with some VR shades beaming the image direct to your retinas... now that would be a hell of an experience
MobiusCo
Reply #4 Sunday, February 10, 2002 9:50 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, February 10, 2002 9:50 PM
Hmmm Quake VII on a direct mind tap. That would be intense, and just curious how much of the id would take over the way you played the game. The primitive parts of the mind take control, and the BFG babbies would never stand a chance against that.
Koasati
Reply #5 Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:05 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:05 PM
*shivers*....... sounds like you guys are getting ready to play "Better Than Life".......
LoidiBoid
Reply #6 Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:09 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:09 PM
The only problem with "mind-control" is that you'd have to be fairly careful with what you thought about! A straight-forward Inter-stella combat sim could suddenly be iterrupted by a invasion by rogue chocolate mud-cakes, or pert high school babes...
ooo, wait a mo'...
LoidiBoid pauses altogether far to long in thought...
ooo, wait a mo'...
LoidiBoid pauses altogether far to long in thought...
GreenReaper
Reply #8 Monday, February 11, 2002 6:18 AM
Reply #8 Monday, February 11, 2002 6:18 AM
>>> *shivers*....... sounds like you guys are getting ready to play "Better Than Life"....... <<<
GreenReaper looks for the moat of green cheese . . .
GreenReaper looks for the moat of green cheese . . .
feline
Reply #9 Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:49 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:49 AM
LoidiBoid - A straight-forward Inter-stella combat sim could suddenly be iterrupted by a invasion by rogue chocolate mud-cakes, or pert high school babes...
stop reading my minds!
stop reading my minds!
paxx
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:32 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:32 PM
Hey, no way! I don't want no computer chip implanted in my brain so I can control computers with my mind!!
Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated!
Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated!
MobiusCo
Reply #14 Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:35 AM
Reply #14 Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:35 AM
oh you mean you would not enjoy having your surfing the net be like in Johnny Neumonic(JAFO check) or to be in the middle of your favorite game and all of a sudden jump on the femal player shooting you instead of shooting back. Scary, hmmm I think a world that can except a giant purple dino singing to their kids can handle just about anything
migellito
Reply #15 Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:56 PM
Reply #15 Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:56 PM
hmm.. ten years. well, the net will be markedly faster. there probably won't be phone modem access by anyone anymore. i'm guessing portables will use satellite.. or maybe just something like a pcs net. speeds and capacities will have increased by another factor of ten, but so will program complexity. by then voice command will probably actually be usable. and i'm sure people will still complain about how long it takes windows to load when they reboot.. hehe. although, by then they might be loading it right off the net.
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Reply #1 Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:54 AM
Hehe
The future is depending from our needs. Just think what you really need today, to find out how the future will be.