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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.

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.

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.

I'm so excited! I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it! Oooh, yeah!

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.

We’re actually ahead of schedule. That’s how I show the computer my fake ID. McLovin, organ donor, Hawaii.

That's how I do it when I'm on ketamine

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.

They got the gender right tbf :3

The haircut is just Yolandi’s cut dyed silver. So we’re halfway there.

we are kinda there: bunch of nonsense input to get nonsense outputs from multiple computers

I'm already growing my hair out in preparation 👍

Kapton Tape belt is ready to go!

I do believe CRTs are going to make a comeback.

But for a vastly different reason.

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Doesn't look that far off from a lot of Unix socks posts with the color stripes between the user and multiple monitors.

What sort of drugs were they on when they predicted this?

Gotta make a reminder in march 2029 to send this in my group chat.

Accurate

You guys haven't been wearing your leftover Xmas tinsel as a hat?

WTFuck is that hair?

This is just the end of halt and catch fire.

With the right combination of mushrooms you probably see the wifi electromagnetic waves in these colors.

My cousin's had wigs like that in the 80's. It was fantastic.

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