@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agowhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?message-square194fedilinkarrow-up1187file-text
arrow-up1187message-squarewhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agomessage-square194fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@mindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink5•8 months agoI miss the niche community “sentences that would have made no sense fifteen years ago.” Like “Homestuck stans dox Twitter influencer @dril.”
minus-square@EmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink3•8 months agoThe idea of a thinking machine/mechanical brain would be more than enough to wow them
minus-square@XTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink5•8 months agoYes. Realistic working computers were still a fantasy. So was solid state electronics and continuing miniaturisation. But they might feel like plausible future space magic like flying cars.
In 1923 this would be gibberish.
I miss the niche community “sentences that would have made no sense fifteen years ago.”
Like “Homestuck stans dox Twitter influencer @dril.”
The idea of a thinking machine/mechanical brain would be more than enough to wow them
Yes. Realistic working computers were still a fantasy. So was solid state electronics and continuing miniaturisation.
But they might feel like plausible future space magic like flying cars.