Passage of time that shocks you..

Emp_Fab

True, but I'll bet that vinyl decomposes too - it's just a question of time.  I'm no chemist but I guess it will eventually go ultra brittle and crumble.  Giant gold discs like that on Voyager 1 would probably last, but the data density would be terrible and the cost astronomical.

Emp_Fab

Regular refreshing of digital media could work but is reliant on every generation diligently doing so.  That's a big ask.  Wars, politics, finance and just plain human error could erase (or edit...) history.  

Kilgore

DVD is the future, Digital Vellum Disc.

Nunogilberto

It'll be ten years in May since my cousin was murdered. I'm now 35, he was 25 (a week after his birthday).

prowla

It's amazing how rudimentary things seem when you see 70s TV, phone boxes, cars, etc.

I would say that where we are now is (apart from the space travel and flying cars) pretty close to some visions of the future then.

EricTheWeary

prowla said:

It's amazing how rudimentary things seem when you see 70s TV, phone boxes, cars, etc.

I would say that where we are now is (apart from the space travel and flying cars) pretty close to some visions of the future then.

The ubiquity of the mobile phone is the thing nobody seemed to guess at even though they thought we’d have amazing androids and flying cars by now. 

Gassage

Re passages of time that shock you- I never like the rola tom into, but the rest is great.

Nitefly

I wonder which had the greater impact - passing from 19th to 20th centuries, or from 20th to 21st?

Early 20th : no cars, no electricity in every home, no powered flight, no communication except telegraph and face-to-face...

Kilgore

EricTheWeary said:

prowla said:

It's amazing how rudimentary things seem when you see 70s TV, phone boxes, cars, etc.

I would say that where we are now is (apart from the space travel and flying cars) pretty close to some visions of the future then.

The ubiquity of the mobile phone is the thing nobody seemed to guess at even though they thought we’d have amazing androids and flying cars by now. 

I put this down to Star Trek, everyone thought they'd have to wait a few centuries before getting Communicators.

ICBM

Nitefly said:

I wonder which had the greater impact - passing from 19th to 20th centuries, or from 20th to 21st?

Early 20th : no cars, no electricity in every home, no powered flight, no communication except telegraph and face-to-face...

19th to 20th was a bigger change I think.

I gave this answer recently when I was asked what I thought the most important event in the history of the modern world was...

1831: Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction, and hence opening the door to electricity as a viable power source.

*Everything* we take for granted in the modern world relies on electricity.

rlw

Nunogilberto said:

It'll be ten years in May since my cousin was murdered. I'm now 35, he was 25 (a week after his birthday).

A hard one to forget I imagine.

Flink_Poyd

20th anniversary issue of this came out this year



Might not be many people who are into it but it still stands up today

Nunogilberto

rlw said:

Nunogilberto said:

It'll be ten years in May since my cousin was murdered. I'm now 35, he was 25 (a week after his birthday).

A hard one to forget I imagine.

I think about him most days but it's only now and again the passage of time since the event dawns on me. The fact it'll be ten years in May is crazy, and even more unbelievable/sad is that he'll always be 25, though time has moved on.

pintspiller

Time catches up so quick! I am five years younger than when my parents died. The thought horrifies me.

Guitar_Slinger

I moved to London as a teenage and am now six years older than my dad was when I left. Also six years older than my nan was when I was born.

ourmaninthenorth

I'm 54 later this month.

Feel a hundred years older, and act as though I'm 12.

Fook time...

sev112

Can’t believe that 10 days holiday has just gone by so quickly 

Guitar_Slinger

Before Christmas, somebody at work was moaning that he was going to buy the same present for somebody that he bought 20 years ago, which cost four times as much.  IIRC, one of the teachers at Uni said that inflation (etc) means that the value of money halves every ten years, so what my colleague paid is a fair price IMHO.

Along those lines, 30 years ago I'd travel to my first job, listening to The Cult's Electric album on tape, in a Toshiba Walkman-type thing that cost £60, which lasted as long as the batteries did.  Right now I'm sitting in bed downloading programmes from iPlayer to my phone, which cost less than a Sony Walkman did, so I can watch them on he bus to work. There's an app that tells me when the next bus will be and I can call or text the missus if running late.  Modern phones are like Ziggy from Quantum Leap!