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Think about this.
On this day in 1999 you went into a coma.
Today you just woke up.

How do you feel about the advancement we have made?

>> No.3033062

bump

>> No.3033064

my mind is blown. how do i came by this place called "4chan"

>> No.3033069

Better internet and cell phones.

Thats about it right?

>> No.3033086

I dont even think I had internet in 1999... Or maybe I had dialup, can't remember

>> No.3033102

3D video games, fuck yeah !

>> No.3033112

Pretty impressed, actually. They can do face transplants. FACE TRANSPLANTS.

>> No.3033166

Other than 100mbps internet and multiple GBs of RAM, not very impressed. Still playing games from 1997-1998, Neon Genesis Evangelion is still my favorite anime.

>> No.3033195

Lack of real space travel.
NASA basically gone.
Computers still keyboards and mice, just faster and smaller.
Wireless Internet is kind of cool.
Almost zero changes to cars or planes.
No bionics or robotics...

Ya what really happened to the last 13 years...

>> No.3033223

>>3033195
humanity is becoming lazier
we should fight apathy.. but who cares?

>> No.3033231

I feel like I missed the release of Diablo II.

>> No.3033234

This thread made me feel sad...Now I really see where our culture has gone...

>> No.3033244
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3033244

What? There's a Fallout 3? Oh boy, I can't wait to get my hands on it! I love isometric RPGs with turn-based combat!

>> No.3033245

3D Movies and consoles
HDTV and Blu-rays
high speed broadband in most first world countries that aren't America
WiFi
cellphones outnumber land lines

There's a lot of new technology, but in terms of science there's nothing new because scientists have been doing basically nothing while engineers revolutionized the world.

>> No.3033260

the state of evolutionary theory has come leaps and bounds in the last decade. think of the progress in evodevo and epigenetics alone.

>> No.3033275

>>3033245
they had 3d movies long before 1999. Hell they used to have them on TV in big events where they gave out those Red/Blue glasses at stores.

we had HD broadcasts back in 1998.

All we have seem to done is come up with better ways to store and send data...

>> No.3033281

>>3033102
>>3033245

Why do you guys say 3D games?
You never played games when you were a kid?
3D games existed way before 1999.

>> No.3033287

>>3033281

Have you even seen PS3 3D games on a 3DTV or the Nintendo 3DS? That's real 3D, not 3D faked for a 2D screen.

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>>3033166
>Neon Genesis Evangelion is still my favorite anime

I've got good news and bad news for you bro...

>> No.3033301

FUCK YES IPADS

>> No.3033302

>>3033287
>He doesn't know about virtual reality headsets
>Underageb& detected

>> No.3033305

>>3033223
I don't think that's true.

Also, Idiocracy is flat-out wrong.

>> No.3033309

>>3033287
What about that headset shooting game that was full 3d.

There have been full 3d arcade games forever

>> No.3033324

>>3033294
What are those news?
(I wait for your reply with a rock-hard dick)

>> No.3033361

>>3033305

Look at the skyrocketing obesity rates. The average person spends about 9.3 hours per day sitting.

>> No.3033369

>>3033324
HURRY THE FUCK UP I CAN NOT STAND THE TENSION

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3033374

>>3033302

>>>He doesn't know about virtual reality headsets

They are pretty good these days. The field of view and resolution are still inferior to a nice big 3D monitor though, so I only really use mine for mobile computing.

>> No.3033375

>>3033374
You... wear a 3D headset on the go?

Nice.

>> No.3033396

>>3033375

Why not? It looks enough like sunglasses that with a hoodie on nobody notices they aren't. There's also a small, clip-on stereo 3d camera pair that lets it do augmented reality. Unfortunately there's no support in Layar or Wikitude for the addon just yet, but it's jailbroken, and apps are in the works that can properly recognize and use the fully upgraded glasses.

>> No.3033403

WE CREATED AN ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORM

GENETIC COUNSELING IS NOW A VIABLE PROFESSION

WE HAVE TAKEN PICTURES OF INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES

MOVING 3D HOLOGRAMS HAVE BEEN CREATED

TISSUE ENGINEERING HAS ADVANCED CONSIDERABLY WE CAN NOW MAKE SCAFFOLDS FOR CELLS TO GROW ON

ISLAM IS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE

>> No.3033406

"Y2K did happen!"

>> No.3033410

Thanks to facebook, embarassment due to forgetting people's names is significantly reduced!

>> No.3033414

>>3033403
>TISSUE ENGINEERING HAS ADVANCED CONSIDERABLY WE CAN NOW MAKE SCAFFOLDS FOR CELLS TO GROW ON

WE CAN FUCKING PRINT KIDNEYS

ISN'T THAT FUCKING AMAZING?

>> No.3033436

bump

>> No.3033438

You ain't seen nothin yet.

>> No.3033439

>>3033414
it's not amazing until I can do it in my own home for cheap

we "can" travel to the moon also
but if I asked you to go there, take a photo and come back, you wouldn't do it

>> No.3033443

remember that WTC bombing years back? damn that wa intense. hop my friend who works there is still doing well after her recovery

>> No.3033444
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3033444

>duke nukem forever

>> No.3033449

>>3033396
>>3033396
where can i get me one of dem tings

>> No.3033458

Where's my fucking hoverboard?

>> No.3033469

>>3033449

It's a Vuzix Wrap920. www.vuzix.com

>> No.3033494

>>3033469
I gotta ask, have you tried Space Shuttle Mission Simulator on them? It's supposed to support the motion detector in your glasses.

>> No.3033510

>WTF, there's hair on my balls.

>> No.3033519

>>3033494

No, but Left 4 Dead is amazing on them. It supports stereo 3D and I've got a TrackIR4Pro that handles the head tracking. I've been playing with VR tech for years now and although every new gyro/accelerometer based tracker promises to have done away with the sensor drift problems of past devices, they're always present. Optical tracking is infinitely better and usually cheaper to boot.

>> No.3033521

WTF is grandma doing on a computer?
dont you know that that is a $2,000 piece of equipment?

>> No.3033539

>>3033374
Please wise sage, tell us where you got those glasses based screens? do want

>> No.3033541

>>3033521
She is on an Imac?

>> No.3033550 [DELETED] 

>>3033539

Scroll up.

>> No.3033558

>>3033539

I already did, here: >>3033469

>> No.3033585

>>3033519
Shii-it.

I wish I could try them out somwhere. They are cheaper than I thought they would be.

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>>3033048

What advancement? We already had palm-tops (i-pods/i-phones) and tablet pc's (ipads), we still use the same goddamn power sources etc. etc..

> mfw nothing has really changed

>> No.3033596

>>3033558
Oh oops. Pardon me lol. Didn't read whole thread. Just saw that image of yours and asked without reading rest lol

>> No.3033598

>>3033587

oh and the technology to make things like the nintendo 3ds possible was ready for the market by 2001, so the technology was there 1999.

>> No.3033616

>>3033598
And you think there isn't any technology available today that is just super expensive at the moment, but will be consumer-level in the future?

>> No.3033621

>>3033616

If you don't have a neat example, well, yeah.

>> No.3033625

>>3033616

> implying anything new is invented somehow, Mr. Tripfaggot

>> No.3033633

>wake up
>have no idea how long you've been unconcious
>on you desk is a gaming magazine
>read it
>Duke Nukem coming out soon
>goddamn took them long enough

>> No.3033638

>>3033633

fuckin' 5star post man

>> No.3033645

>>3033621
3d printers! Brain-computer interfaces!

>> No.3033663

>>3033645

has been there before, is now only smaller and a little bit more efficient.

3d printers were rather primitive,so i might give you that point, but computer interfaces have been around for quite some time.

>> No.3033671

>>3033663
That's like saying carts have been around for quite some time, so cars don't count as anything new. Noninvasive BCIs are a developing technology and are quite different than invasive BCI.

Also: International space station. Sure, it started in 1998 but it's come a long way since then.

>> No.3033673

>>3033663
>>3033598
>>3033621
HALO 3!!!!!!

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3033686

10 piece chicken McNuggets?! AWESOME!!!!

>> No.3033690

I have mixed feelings, impressed in some way, super disappointed in others.
My expectations changed a lot since.

>> No.3033691

The internet. It's part of everyday life now, back in 2001 you were still cool if you had a DSL connection.
(The melody of your modem dialing in is now playing in your head.)

>> No.3033729

I have hair on my dick now.

>> No.3033953

>>3033686
LOL this post.

>> No.3034262

If I woke up from a long coma today and some one showed me facebook I'd ask to be put back under.

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3034275

WE STILL HAVEN'T GONE TO MARS?

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I think I would be...sort of proud. I mean, I would look at all of the advancements and think of ways that we could have achieved that sooner, making more things possible. I would always think, 'what if we had just worked a little harder, or gone a little faster?' Oh well. I'm semi-proud. 62.334%. That's all you're going to get out of me.

>> No.3034310

mfw the brain dieds after a long period of no external stimius. in other words you would not be thinking of anything you stupid fucks.

>> No.3034320

....hybrid cars.......unmm...wind turbines........flat screen TVs are cheaper......

...humm not much change.

>> No.3034346

The fatherfucking INTERNET is everywhere now.

Ten years made a huge difference. Now, everybody and everything is online.

>> No.3034372

>>3033195
humanity gets more excited over a new iphone than they do over an exoskeleton that makes people walk again.

>> No.3034568

>cell phone = portable god machine
>Internet errwhere
i'm ok with thi-
>APPLE IS THE MOST CASH-RICH CORPORATION ON EARTH
OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE

>> No.3034824

>Fucking interwebz everywhere.
>Everyone being social through computars, specifically, everyone at a concert staring at whyphonez rather than seein it through their eyes.

>> No.3034931

>>3034275
Technocracybro.
I lold

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>Glorious computer graphics
Hooray!
>Pixar
Hooray!
>Everything Valve has done since 1999
Hooray!
>Internet FUCKING EVERYWHERE
Hooray!
>Moore's Law still in effect, and is actually speeding up.
Hooray!
>ISS still not fucking completed
Wait, wha-
>Columbia disintegrated on re-entry
Oh my god this is terri-
>Soyuz will be the only operational manned program in a year
What the fuck is this shi-
>Constellation program completely cancelled, we gave up on going to the moon within 4 years of promising we would
Fuck this shit, I-
>Medical research destroyed due to rich fundamentalists
I fucking give up. Shitty decade.

>> No.3035041

It sort've feels like this last decade has been a massive improvement of everything we had in the 90s and before and just commercialized everything to everybody. And working with some high experimental stuff that we're still not quite far enough to fully understand/apply.

Hypothetically speaking the real rebirth of the internet should start making technology grow so much faster.

Also
>POINCARE CONJECTURE SOLVED
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH