@cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
Post #721448
2026-03-21 10:03 UTC
Replies (21)
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@emily_s@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-21 10:10
@cstross perfect
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@Sonikku@techhub.social 2026-03-21 10:13
@cstross the future was better when it was 8Bit
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 10:28
@cstross @occult Never mind the flying cars and the jetpacks, I just wanted the future where I can shoot multi-colored lasers from my palms.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop 2026-03-21 10:38
@cstross This is the future I miss:
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@soapdog@toot.cafe 2026-03-21 10:41
@cstross that is exactly how I develop my software.
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 10:41
@cstross ah you sure it's not just someone blinding the spybots on the built in video cameras so they can secretly connect to signal 😁
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@MartinW@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-21 10:57
@cstross I miss the expectation that things would be better in the future.
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@LairdClark@dice.camp 2026-03-21 12:02
@cstross I miss the haircuts.
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@darkling@mstdn.social 2026-03-21 12:31
@cstross It's definitely not what it used to be.
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-21 13:40
@cstross The article to which that picture and the related one on the front cover (the same woman seemingly impressing Toyah Wilcox, looking over her shoulder, by using a monitor in portrait orientation as a tanning bed to turn her chest bright orange) belongs has some wild but not *entirely* off predictions. IBM will win the standards war, with Token Ring and two things that fell by the wayside so thoroughly that I've never encountered them even on OS/2 or PC-DOS. UIs will employ dynamic function keys, have context-sensitive help, be voice-driven, and will 'eliminate the need for a mouse to always be present to use the system'. (Hey, Cortana! Did that come true?) MS-DOS will be rewritten in C and become capable of running #Unix programs alongside MS-DOS ones. And everyone will need a VT-100 (sic!) terminal emulator on their PCs. #UnixWorld #DECVTs #TerminalEmulators #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing #xterm
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@HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 14:03
@cstross Zeerust https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 14:38
@cstross this is what they took from us: shooting rainbows out of hands and asymmetric polyester hair weaves
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@markdennehy@mastodon.ie 2026-03-21 14:44
@cstross The future does not miss, for it has optimised aiming algorithms...
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@ppxl@social.tchncs.de 2026-03-21 18:13
@cstross I mean we have still three more years to invent laser hands
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@cjust@infosec.exchange 2026-03-21 18:27
@cstross Pretty certain that's actually how things work at the #GAYINT HQ. @cR0w could confirm.
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@amro@todon.nl 2026-03-21 18:40
@cstross I did love the idea of cyber-puppetry
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@ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-21 18:58
@cstross The only unambiguous real world improvement over this prediction is that our screens are larger, more readable and lighter.
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@j3rn@fosstodon.org 2026-03-21 19:22
@cstross Technically we have three years to completely lose (or gain?) all sense of style and also laser things into monitors. There's still hope.
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@helielo@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 23:51
@cstross @occult there's still time
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 2026-03-22 04:02
@cstross I collect old books that try to predict the future. My favorite prediction was: "We will irrigate the Sahara desert by blasting irrigation channels into it with nuclear weapons!"
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@xerge@mastodon.nl 2026-03-22 06:55
@cstross @jwz @occult Microsoft has destroyed do much.