• MrFagtron9000@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The smartphone is the only science fiction thing we have.

    We didn’t get table top fusion reactors, food pills, Rosie the robot, casual commercial space travel, flying cars, hoverboards, etc…

    But we did get a little computer we can carry around that has literally everything in it. It’s a camera, it’s camcorder, it’s a microcassette voice recorder, computer, telephone, book, TV, video conference system, remote control for all my lights, remote control for the TV, a McDonald’s ordering device, instant messenger, magazine, radio, GPS for my car, GPS tracker for my family, health monitoring device, flashlight, Sears catalog - It would probably be harder to come up with a list of things that it can’t do.

    You can take my smartphone from my cold dead hands.

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      1 year ago

      This kind of “single device that replaced an entire backpack of stuff” is why there are no computers in the Dune universe.

      They would make the plots too easy to resolve.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We did get flying cars. They are called helicopters. Impractical except for niche applications.

      Look at the mofos you see only dealing with driving in straight lines on the ground and tell me you want them flying. Like a week ago I made the foolish mistake of honking (one honk) someone who cut me off and they got behind me just so they could rage honk and tailgate me for a solid minute. You want that guy with access to the ability to drop stuff from above?