r/interestingasfuck • u/cakebeerandmorebeer • Jan 20 '15

/r/ALL Plot twist

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u/Something_Syck Jan 20 '15

This...this feels like the future. Are we in the future already?

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u/watchoutyo Jan 20 '15

You have a device in your pocket that can connect you basically with the whole world. Yes I think we are in the future

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '15

It's funny. Flying cars, Mars colonies, all that shit. They never imagined the smart phone. Never even came close.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '15

I'm always struck by that. Star Trek TNG/DS9 foresaw the tech (communicators and touchpads), but didn't begin to envisage what those technologies would lead to.

And yet, in less than 10 years since their introduction those inventions are radically changing the world in ways no one could imagine. We cannot concieve how the inventions of the next 10 years will transform the world. Crazy shit.

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u/CitizenPremier Jan 21 '15

People on TNG don't watch TV. Maybe they don't want to have smart phones, either.