On the other hand you have Star Trek, which basically invented our modern computing interfaces that aren’t keyboard and mouse.

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.

I like to think he's just fucking extra. If you rewatch the scene, another dude is working on a pretty normal computer setup, sitting at a desk, not flailing around wildly, normal sized monitor (except the monitor is transparent), etc. He seems to have the option to do gesture interaction too as he selects and moves some images with his pinky pointed at the screen, but seems like there is still a keyboard-like or touchpad interface on the desk. Then they transfer data over with a weird physical drive to Tom Cruise's giant curved monitor and gesture controlled setup using the gloves. He's just an early adopter into more experimental tech formats, like the rich kids who had the power glove for the Nintendo, or someone who has a 8k 60inch curved monitor. I bet even the amount of movements he is putting into the gestures is entirely unnecessary and over the top. He just thinks it's cool.

If you did it all day everyday you would not be exhausted you would be nice and fit like Tom Cruise.

Hackers was my favorite.

This is something i love about The Expanse, the technology actually makes sense.

Most people just have a disposable phone/tablet consisting of plexiglass (just so you have something transparent to actually hold) and a little square in a corner (which is all the actual hardware and projects a holographic interface ontop of the plexiglass), which acts much like an oldschool terminal for a central mainframe system, and you just use it like normal except it can also detect gestures around it.
Next most normal is larger versions of this mounted on the walls, which you can just swipe stuff onto from other devices and interact with more like a TV except your hand is the remote.
And that's like 90% of what people actually use, fancy 3d holographic stuff is only used when the 3d aspect is actually helpful, like visualizing the solar system or if you wanna play a board game or something like that.

And actually i almost feel this moreso for Subnautica 2, the tech in that game actually feels really sensibly futuristic to me. I struggle to put into words what exactly makes it feel so natural but i think generally, it's the same thing as how we have super advanced technology IRL yet most of the stuff we actually use day-to-day are just better versions of what was used in the past.
Candles were replaced with gas lamps, then incandescent flashlights, and now you just use the LED on your phone. Subnautica 2 does that with most of the technology and it's so fucking satisfying.

Damn you, now I have that song in my head.

What song is this

Doin' the neutron dance?

So it might just be what some photographer randomly thought up.

Does anyone have the entire magazine archived? I want to find out exactly where they were in computing.

OK, but this was Unix world magazine...

This is 100% accurate.

I grew up in the sprawling suburbs where every other kid had a moped and a swimming pool, but next to nobody had a computer.

My giant middle school, with thousands of kids had a computer club. And there was a grand total of 8 of us computer-owning nerds. Not to mention my Apple ][e cost something $4000 (USD) in todays money.

Alright, flex harder on us cool guy lol

Except that she's smiling while she does it.

Bluetooth and Wifi are also what that idea might be. Wirelessly moving data from a storage device to your PC.

Yep.

+screen casting

+app interactions

Most information is transferred using light, specifically with those desk toys that everybody had in the 90s .

Fwiw, radio waves are light. Just lower in frequency with longer wavelength

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

Funny enough you actually need to show ID to buy bitcoin to donate Annas archive.

I need to re-watch that

Post-futurism QR code scanning?

"i showed u my data chits. Pls respond"

:3

But do you have an all-white one-piece pant suit?

The good stuff.

Qualudes ofc

They got the date right too!

Was your cousin's name Andy Warhol?

As much as I want them to, I don’t think they will. Incredibly expensive to retool manufacturing to produce the tubes again. Who knows though maybe a rich retro gamer would invest.

well .... whats the reason? :3

Dare I ask?

It's a late 20's trend that should be starting up any day now.

Awesome

You keep drinking the mushroom tea until you are vibrating at the same frequency asthe light waves.