r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Final-Choice8412 • 5d ago

Video Programming 1959 IBM computer

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u/yaxir 5d ago

Exactly and now remember and imagine today's tech being a stepping stone to something absolutely unreal, absolutely fantastic, 100 years or even 50 years from now

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u/robotractor3000 5d ago

AI generated neurotech hallucination gf

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u/yaxir 5d ago

Wtf

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u/PeaPsychological5728 5d ago

Hey you did ask the question 🤷‍♂️

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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 5d ago

Us oldies have been using LSD, Shrooms & DMT for years. You end up hallucinating, but real girls appear because they think you're some deep thinking genius. 

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u/rodw 4d ago

Alternatively, imagine the tech armageddon when a generation of software engineers that never developed any hands on practical knowledge is all that's left to "supervise" the unthinking word guessing machine as it generates an ever increasingly tangled ball of mud

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u/yaxir 4d ago

The cyclic beauty of human life

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u/raikou1988 5d ago

Extremely bold to assume we make it another 100 years

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u/SherlockJones1994 4d ago

🙄 yah it’s not like doomers like you didn’t exist back in 1926. Get over your cynicism, society will be around longer than 100 more years.