Thread 106954445

What happened to 2010s futurism?

>>106954445 (OP)
I thought this was going to be another "muh frutiger aero" kinda thread but this is a good question, actually.
I remember the hype around transparent screens and other tech that haven't come to pass, but probably for good reason.
Innovative tech has stagnated significantly since after the 2008 recession IMO.

For anyone confused about the pictures.
>slime fridges
>google glass
>an ad where a woman’s hair is blown by the subway
>michael jackson/tupac hologram
>edible water bottle
>smart glass
>real time translation

>>106954445 (OP)
replaced with 2020s pessimism

>>106954445 (OP)
Reality.

>>106954445 (OP)
Not a thing + kill yourself zoomer, the 2010s was a literal wasteland for all forms of creativity. No wonder you're kind can't even make smalltalk with customer service

I don't know, I just know 2020 opened a gate that needs to be closed. I want off this ride.

>>106954445 (OP)
All of these things expect for the slime aren't concepts. The fact is that unless you can engineer something nobody cares about theoretical ideas as they are either to specialized or have already been done.

>>106954572
/thread

It took 3 years 2007-2010 for the "2010" futurism concept to be created and it's completly retarded. You also forgot Solar Freakin' Roadways (though that's from 2006)

>>106954673
Not to mention the gel fridge wasn't talked about at all in the 2010s, at least solar roadways was talked about.

tech companies dont wanna actually build anything physical, they just wanna deliver some airy fairy software product that does everything and have jeets spam shitty code to do it. pre 2008 they actually tried to push tech forward and experimented with hardware. post 2008 they just chase after software gains while nothing changes.

>>106954445 (OP)
What happened to 1960s futurism?
I want my Jetsons flying car now

>>106954673
>>106954705
"Solar freakin roadways" was a retard detector.

>>106955030
So was balloon-less flight before the wright brother

Remember when OLED screens would fold up like a napkin

>>106955064
That reminds me. Curved monitors were a big thing too

>>106954445 (OP)
>HAVE A NICE MEALT

>>106954445 (OP)
Financialization happened.

>>106955082
>HAVE A NICE MEALT
HAVE A NICE ḾEALT

>>106955041
Heavier than air flight was obviously possible due to the existence of flying animals that are heavier than air.

The retard roadways project wasn't hyped slas science fiction or an area of research. It was presented as something that was practical right now with existing technology. Which you would have to be mentally retarded or a child to believe.

>>106954445 (OP)
>What happened to 2010s futurism?
Capitalism & its brother, far-right politics

>>106956050
No new materials were used in the Wright Flyer

>>106954572
why are you faggots like this
>live in /g/
>go into literally every thread
>'kys zoomer tranny saar'
do you enjoy being a retarded edgelord?

>>106954445 (OP)
2020s futurism

>>106954572
>you're

>>106954445 (OP)
The smart millennials realized they were already millionaires and fucked off or they could become billionaires if they went full evil.

>>106956089
Do you have any idea of which website you are currently on?

>>106956137
i thought this was the technology board not the cocksucker board
was i mistaken?

>>106956158
You were.

>>106954445 (OP)
Everything but the Google Translate thing is from 2010 or earlier.

Same as every other futurism, it all leans on optimism about the future.
By 2010's things were already well on their way out and by 2013 the world had basically ended.
Culture moves with economic cycles.
The economic cycle which started in the early 80's, ended with the 2008 crash. But instead of letting things cycle and go through their natural progression or crash and recovery, they started printing at an increased rate, which has prolonged this limbo of a dead period for years.
We won't go anywhere culturally before the economy properly shits the bed and things finally cycle.
But due to the prolonged "growth" period, the crash and the recovery in the West is going to take +30 years, just like how it went with Japan after their collapse.
If you want optimistic futurism, look at Asia and soon even Latin America, as they get their growth properly going in the coming decade.

>>106956213
>Michael Jackson
2014
>Google Glass
2013
Should I keep going?

>>106956213
>>106956503
>no reply
That's what I thought, you fucking cunt. Shut your mouth next time, shit particles spew from it when you talk with your mouth full.

>>106956503
>>106956567
Pepper's Ghost is a century-and-a-half old technique. Tbh, I completely overlooked Glass, (as did the market), my bad. But anyway, it's not from 2013; it was announced in 2012 and prototypes were available in 2011. Further, the Glass is just a smaller version of MIT WCG prototypes, which themselves were proofs of concept of fictional devices like Dragonball's scouters (from the 80s).

https://codereality.net/ar-for-eu-book/chapter/introduction/historyar/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220090176_EyeTap_Devices_for_Augmented_Deliberately_Diminished_or_Otherwise_Altered_Visual_Perception_of_Rigid_Planar_Patches_of_Real-World_Scenes

Chill/fuck off.

>>106956758
>>106956503
>>106956567
This one's from 2004-2006ish.

>>106956758
>>106956767
Thanks, the reply-bait worked. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is to say something wrong. It never, ever fails.

>>106956861
Ah, I've used that one before, good show. You could have just asked, though.

>>106954445 (OP)
I think with stuff like james bridle's new aesthetic, post-net art on tumblr, and scifi like '10s black mirror, the future morphed from a fun place into an uncanny reflection of the contemporary https://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/archive . I think this is also due to the normalization of high quality digital cameras and photo-realistic CGI. We no longer use visual abstraction in depictions of the future. It's always already tangible. See the film Her from 2013 - the challenge of production design stops being about going crazy, but making the future seem entirely real.

>>106954445 (OP)
I was told we'd have graphene capacitor EVs that instantly charge 5 years ago and quantum graphics cards 2 years ago and we'd be landing on mars today and we'd be working on better carbon nano tubing to build space elevators

>>106954516
all of this actually happened except for the slime fridge which was a very poorly thought out idea
and still kind of happens
>>106954445 (OP)
in the 2010s the tech industry "grew up" and was forced to appeal to shareholders rather than real people
as always, publicly traded corporations ruin everything for everyone

>>106955030
i never understood why they didn't attempt to apply solar freakin' roadways to the sidewalk
just like, cover the freakin' sidewalk
covered freakin' sidewalks

>>106957839
for all the same reasons

>>106957851
there's definitely better places to put solar panels in a literal sense--open fields and shit
but blotting out the lands with solar panels is a long term retarded idea
might as well put panels on the top of soulless box scrapers and other buildings
shade provided by panels on top of the sidewalk might be inefficient due to shading but at least appreciated by people who have to walk under them
and they won't block large vehicles either

>>106954572
What the fuck does this have to do with anything?

>>106954445 (OP)
>nostalgia for 10 years ago
Is it me or is nostalgia getting closer to today with every decade? In a couple of years people will be nostalgic for just yesterday, every day.

>>106954445 (OP)
put any of these jeetware slaves back into the 2010s and watch sheer hysteric cinema ensue.
its all comfy and easy until the tit that nurtured you gets taken away from you

>>106954445 (OP)
SVB closed and VCs couldn't fund their 4th grade science projects anymore

>>106958430
attention spans are getting shorter