OK so there’s definitely been a huge technological disappointment compared to the expectations of the mid 20th century, and besides space travel it’s basically that we don’t have as much energy as they expected, so we can’t make death rays and stuff because they aren’t energy-efficient. And the reason for that is I think pretty much suppression of nuclear power. They imagined a world powered by the unlimited energy of the atom, we decided not to do that after all.
But the world does look futuristic now. I was thinking of examples in the shower but I don’t wanna write them all out. But half of them are enabled by lithium-ion batteries, so we have hoverboards and phones and stuff. And the other half is LED lighting. Like if you remember neon signs and little colored plastic lightbulbs that shit looks like another world now. We have huge moving advertisements everywhere, we have indoor spaces with those white walls and bright white lighting so it looks like you found the planet iPods come from, lots of stuff. The pre LED world is starting to look like gaslamps.
iPhones still regularly amaze me, like how can a device that small stay that bright for that long, it’s incredible
“Powered by six AA batteries, the Sega Game Gear has an approximate battery life of 3 to 5 hours”
felt more like fifteen minutes tbh and the screen was utter shite
even the iphone FLASHLIGHT amazes me.
i remember these:
bulky, dim yellowish light, battery runs out, bulb burns out, and ofc bulb gets hot
