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[Last of the V8s]

So how much energy do you get if you burn up 6,000 bushels of corn and how many bitcorns does that mine?
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/grain-and-oilseed/corn.html

[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