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[jojo69]

At some point miners are only going to get so efficient - that'll be the great leveller.
Once that happens, I might get back into mining.

I fully expected by this point in time to be able to purchase a 4U 1600W unit for about 1 coin that would reliably ROI in about 2 years.

In many ways this timeline is not the one I expected.

[Hyperjacked]

Hmmm looks like we might be heading north !

[Last of the V8s]

Canada?

[jojo69]

nope

borders closed

[Arriemoller]

If I had to point out one single item that most of all represents what I in the 80s would have thought of as truly sci-fi it's the smartphone.
It's a truly amazing gizmo, so futuristic that no one even thought about it in the 80s, at least I have not seen or read about anything like it.

maybe so for the current form, but not in general:
https://www.destination-innovation.com/how-startrek-inspired-an-innovation-your-cell-phone/
or
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelvenables/2013/04/03/captain-kirks-call-to-spock/#1ce42077a92c

btw, sci-fi already described various currently nonexistent cell phone forms, including mostly transparent.

Yes the mobile phone is described in just about every sci-fi book. I even have a sci-fi book from the late 1800s about a guy who finds himself in the year2000, and they get quite a few things right, for example the mobile phone and credit cards.
They also got a lot of things wrong, no prisons (criminality is treated and cured in hospitals), public kitchens and public washingplaces makes servants and the likes unnecessary and so on. It's quite a socialistic kind of future actually.
But the smart phone I have never seen described, I mean it's not even a phone, just a screen that can do just about anything you want if you have the app.

[Last of the V8s]

Well that's just utterly ridiculous. One cannot live without servants. Full stop.

[jojo69]

whatever would the lower classes do?

[Biodom]

If I had to point out one single item that most of all represents what I in the 80s would have thought of as truly sci-fi it's the smartphone.
It's a truly amazing gizmo, so futuristic that no one even thought about it in the 80s, at least I have not seen or read about anything like it.

maybe so for the current form, but not in general:
https://www.destination-innovation.com/how-startrek-inspired-an-innovation-your-cell-phone/
or
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelvenables/2013/04/03/captain-kirks-call-to-spock/#1ce42077a92c

btw, sci-fi already described various currently nonexistent cell phone forms, including mostly transparent.

Yes the mobile phone is described in just about every sci-fi book. I even have a sci-fi book from the late 1800s about a guy who finds himself in the year2000, and they get quite a few things right, for example the mobile phone and credit cards.
They also got a lot of things wrong, no prisons (criminality is treated and cured in hospitals), public kitchens and public washingplaces makes servants and the likes unnecessary and so on. It's quite a socialistic kind of future actually.
But the smart phone I have never seen described, I mean it's not even a phone, just a screen that can do just about anything you want if you have the app.

I don't see a principal difference.
Physical form always changes, and i am not sure about the 80ies, but star trek next gen had ipad-like forms (PADDS) on which they could do essentially anything.
the only difference from the current cell phone is slightly larger size.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago/

google search star trek ipad-there are many forms, some resembling a large cell phone.

like this:
https://mikecanex.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/picardorangepadd.jpg

[Globb0]

Its raining again ot oh






Supertramp

[Last of the V8s]

Charming. Thought you people were meant to be polite.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Its raining again ot oh






Supertramp

It’s not rain, it’s the salty tears of oil investors wishing they’d bought bitcoin instead.

[Globb0]

I don't feel that smug. Wait and see the reality.

[Biodom]

Its raining again ot oh






Supertramp

It’s not rain, it’s the salty tears of oil investors wishing they’d bought bitcoin instead.

Some hot heads who bought may oil yesterday at -38 (if it was possible) and sold today at 9 made like bandits, but there were only 9k contracts traded.
I don't even know if you can buy something at -38?

[El duderino_]

via Imgflip Meme Generator

[Arriemoller]

If I had to point out one single item that most of all represents what I in the 80s would have thought of as truly sci-fi it's the smartphone.
It's a truly amazing gizmo, so futuristic that no one even thought about it in the 80s, at least I have not seen or read about anything like it.

maybe so for the current form, but not in general:
https://www.destination-innovation.com/how-startrek-inspired-an-innovation-your-cell-phone/
or
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelvenables/2013/04/03/captain-kirks-call-to-spock/#1ce42077a92c

btw, sci-fi already described various currently nonexistent cell phone forms, including mostly transparent.

Yes the mobile phone is described in just about every sci-fi book. I even have a sci-fi book from the late 1800s about a guy who finds himself in the year2000, and they get quite a few things right, for example the mobile phone and credit cards.
They also got a lot of things wrong, no prisons (criminality is treated and cured in hospitals), public kitchens and public washingplaces makes servants and the likes unnecessary and so on. It's quite a socialistic kind of future actually.
But the smart phone I have never seen described, I mean it's not even a phone, just a screen that can do just about anything you want if you have the app.

I don't see a principal difference.
Physical form always changes, and i am not sure about the 80ies, but star trek next gen had ipad-like forms (PADDS) on which they could do essentially anything.
the only difference from the current cell phone is slightly larger size.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago/

google search star trek ipad-there are many forms, some resembling a large cell phone.

like this:
https://mikecanex.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/picardorangepadd.jpg

Idk, to me a smartphone and a I pad are two very different things. One is a small portable phone/screen, the other a large bulky weird looking computer, like a lap top missing its lower part. But that's just me.

[vapourminer]

Hmmm looks like we might be heading north !

Canada?

nope

borders closed

i wonder when canada is gonna build a wall to keep us out?

[Arriemoller]

Hmmm looks like we might be heading north !

Canada?

nope

borders closed

i wonder when canada is gonna build a wall to keep us out?

They will if you keep letting all those Mexicans in.

[jojo69]

the Mexicans are the best folks we got

at least they work

[LFC_Bitcoin]

the Mexicans are the best folks we got

at least they work

Who else is going to wash your car for $3

[Arriemoller]

the Mexicans are the best folks we got

at least they work

If the Mexicans are the best folks, then why isn't mexico the best country and why are they all trying to go to the USA.
Or could it be that USA has the best folks and that's why the USA is the best country and that is the reason why everybody south of the border wants to move there?