a sign of my juvenility that whenever a find a vestige of my past self, I generally find it charming and amusing rather than embarrassing or disappointing?
We HAVE new tech, but the only new things anybody owns are more powerful computers, smaller phones, better music players, and sharper TVs.
Lasers and robots exist, but nobody wants them.
Pro-tip: Give your past self an iPod and send them back into the past. Watch as the reality you know is replaced by one is which you are worshiped as a technology god.
i was 9. i dont hardly remember anything from that time. except having a discussion with a friend of mine turning ten. or as we came to call it “tendy-nine” i did think life would be a little more star trekky by now. i would just crush my 9 year old dreams. cuz now i hate children. how did that happen?
i knit, and i garden, therefore i have better clothes and more delicious food than i had 15 years ago. still, i have to admit that 19 year old me would probably be disappointed at how i gave up on gadgets and popular music.
ps: david bowie isn’t going to finish the outside series, so enjoy the concert while you can.
I think we’re sometimes disappointed because progress doesn’t look as sexy as we’d hoped. Our household robots look more like trilobites than metallic humans, but they’re better suited to the job that way. Opening GPS to consumer use hasn’t given us auto-piloted cars, but it does allow us to locate a vehicle when the driver is hurt and cannot speak. It may not be flashy, but it helps people, which I think is far more important.
People who stay excited about the future after it’s become the present are uncool. These are the people who get excited about a touchscreen cellphone or the latest Debian distro.
I’m completely okay with being uncool, Scott. I don’t see why things should stop being interesting once they’re freely available to the Earth’s wealthiest inhabitants. There are still plenty of people in America, let alone the developing world, who’ve never been on an airplane. There are towns in Africa and Asia where one person owns a cellular or satellite phone, and he or she rents the phone out by the minute, acting as the village’s connection to the outside world. I think those folks would be mind-blown, and perhaps a little upset, to see Americans using their high-speed connections, disposable income, and copious free time to play Farmville.
I some times like to look at really old video game reviews or previews for games i already have. It breathes new advertising life in to the relationship, makes me feel like I’m on the edge.
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May 27th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
i once got a letter i sent myself… i was also disappointing to myself.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
A new personal record, I had to Google four times to understand this comic. A weak showing for me in hipster trival night.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
No visible signs of aging in 15 years, Grrrl should feel good about that at least. I mean, if looks matter…
May 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
And here I figured she got the slouch in the aughts.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Oh, OK Soda, you tried so hard to not look as if you were trying. I still have a bottle in a closet somewhere.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
a sign of my juvenility that whenever a find a vestige of my past self, I generally find it charming and amusing rather than embarrassing or disappointing?
Or am I hopelessly arrogant?
May 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
[...] This vision of the future. [...]
May 28th, 2010 at 10:19 am
genome mapping was going on 15 years ago… we’re just faster at it these days
May 28th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Remember how in your time we could put people in space?
We canceled that, we don’t do that any more.
Also, supersonic passenger liners? We don’t have those either. Too high tech.
Still … our TVs are a good deal sharper.
May 28th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
You don’t know whatchu got ’til it’s gone.
Pour a 40 out for Jay Reatard.
May 28th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Now robots can kill you from the sky. I didn’t expect that fifteen years ago.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
We HAVE new tech, but the only new things anybody owns are more powerful computers, smaller phones, better music players, and sharper TVs.
Lasers and robots exist, but nobody wants them.
May 29th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Where we’re going, we don’t need Jay Reatard.
Too soon?
May 29th, 2010 at 6:40 am
1.2 gigawatts?! What was I thinking??
May 29th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
In 1995 we already knew that we were getting The Internet instead of Virtual Reality.
May 29th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Oops, I didn’t mean to capitalize virtual reality.
May 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Oh, or, perhaps you did?
May 29th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I don´t want to meet my future self yet, I want to feel like I construct me, gives me hope.
May 29th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Im more concerned about the subway shes on. 15 years? Man those cuts have been BRUTAL!
May 30th, 2010 at 1:14 am
wait, Im going meta for a minute. Did Grrrl came into existence with riot girl bands (1990-91)?
May 30th, 2010 at 2:56 am
Pro-tip: Give your past self an iPod and send them back into the past. Watch as the reality you know is replaced by one is which you are worshiped as a technology god.
May 30th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
i was 9. i dont hardly remember anything from that time. except having a discussion with a friend of mine turning ten. or as we came to call it “tendy-nine” i did think life would be a little more star trekky by now. i would just crush my 9 year old dreams. cuz now i hate children. how did that happen?
May 31st, 2010 at 12:32 pm
i knit, and i garden, therefore i have better clothes and more delicious food than i had 15 years ago. still, i have to admit that 19 year old me would probably be disappointed at how i gave up on gadgets and popular music.
ps: david bowie isn’t going to finish the outside series, so enjoy the concert while you can.
pps: this comic reminds me of the younger self series: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=71 “yes, i’m not a tree.”
June 1st, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I think we’re sometimes disappointed because progress doesn’t look as sexy as we’d hoped. Our household robots look more like trilobites than metallic humans, but they’re better suited to the job that way. Opening GPS to consumer use hasn’t given us auto-piloted cars, but it does allow us to locate a vehicle when the driver is hurt and cannot speak. It may not be flashy, but it helps people, which I think is far more important.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:42 pm
People who stay excited about the future after it’s become the present are uncool. These are the people who get excited about a touchscreen cellphone or the latest Debian distro.
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:34 am
love it how grrrls bitting her lip :P
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I’m completely okay with being uncool, Scott. I don’t see why things should stop being interesting once they’re freely available to the Earth’s wealthiest inhabitants. There are still plenty of people in America, let alone the developing world, who’ve never been on an airplane. There are towns in Africa and Asia where one person owns a cellular or satellite phone, and he or she rents the phone out by the minute, acting as the village’s connection to the outside world. I think those folks would be mind-blown, and perhaps a little upset, to see Americans using their high-speed connections, disposable income, and copious free time to play Farmville.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:59 am
I some times like to look at really old video game reviews or previews for games i already have. It breathes new advertising life in to the relationship, makes me feel like I’m on the edge.
June 6th, 2010 at 12:32 am
i still miss Might magazine.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:33 am
jayreatard was horrendous.
June 7th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
And the moral of the story is… future never happens. You always will live in the same filth and pain you always did.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:06 am
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