Post B1BtNnycEEADAVsUHg by jonty@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #B1Bo4aNK4hTRiARzto by IrrationalMethod@social.coop
2025-12-12T23:29:42Z
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@kajord @jonty Modern digital technology seems so simple by comparison (it surely isn't) than these complex analog solutions -- it makes me wonder how much the rediculousness of the tropes of a mad-scientist's lab, techno-babble in sci-fi, or Rube Goldberg machines seem now, when like, this was peak technology at the time.(Thought about this watching Back To The Future with my kid, especially around the Doc Brown scenes.)
(DIR) Post #B1Bo4c8rVR5xBthTdY by khm@hj.9fs.net
2025-12-13T00:26:58Z
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I am trying and failing to remember which science fiction author had a whole bit about how a given technology would have fewer and fewer moving parts, and a perfectly mature technology would just be a highly engineered block of matter that did whatever its function wasCC: @kajord@hachyderm.io @jonty@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #B1Bo4jBFKyA51JrypE by IrrationalMethod@social.coop
2025-12-12T23:34:33Z
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@kajord @jonty Granted, Doc Brown and his time machine seem to be very much playing into the rediculousness of those things in old science fiction.But like imagine seeing 1950s sci-fi films with those tropes... on a projector powered by a beam of light passing through a lens coated with oil, and the images created by another beam charging the particles, only to get wiped away dozens of times per second.
(DIR) Post #B1BtNnycEEADAVsUHg by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-12T22:04:39Z
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Sometimes you read about old technology, get to the end of the sentence, and have to read it again because it sounds so completely ludicrous you can't quite believe it actually worked.Anyway Eidophor projectors are what they used for Apollo Mission Control.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor
(DIR) Post #B1BtNpYSMSQY3xecmu by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-13T01:47:29Z
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@jontyso kinda like a laser printer?