it's kind funny that the people who live in those days who wanted a bright future are actually the same peoples that shaped our future and everything is fucked....
Someone once said that reducing Columbus's crimes to the rhyme "In fourteen-hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" is like saying "In nineteen-hundred forty-two, Hitler gave free showers to lots of Jews".
Something I always notice is that the past vision of cities-of-the-future were always very open and spacious places in the sky. They envisioned a reversal of the very nature of cities that has only gotten worse since that time: cramming as many people into the smallest space possible to generate as much rent and tax money as possible.
I was watching this one night with my gf on several "mood enhancers" and stepping out by joe jackson played and we lost our collective minds, it was amazing. Stupid story, I know😂
Great video! certain movies were meant for black and white because of the vision! but many weren't and adding colour should always be done with caution and respect to the movie :)
I wonder if Encarta could have fathomed the creation of Google Maps, 8 years later. I have to say, I'm not a fan of the "malfunction" segment. It was sensory punishment for me, and I won't be watching this video again just to avoid it.
Man I miss tech-optimism. Back when computers being able to do anything seemed like the coolest thing ever. Now I look at my iPhone with such jaded eyes lmao.
15:36 I remember all those "one button" color stabilization gizmos of the 1970s; they were supposed to correct drift in the color burst pulse, a vulnerability in the NTSC system that was addressed in PAL with alternating phases, albeit at a price of reduced color resolution. I don't remember any of them working very well, with VIR seeming to have the most logic behind it. Unfortunately, from what I've heard, stations were very inconsistent in how and whether they used the VIR signal, so you couldn't really count on that system working. But, as the 1980s progressed and digital tuners based on standard chipsets took over, the problem seemed to wither away. Who knows what algorithms were buried in those chips; there could have been remnants of these 1970s technologies being activated when they worked. However they did it, the digitally tuned sets didn't have pictures that changed color as you walked across the room, even when using rabbit ear antennas. Now, we are spoiled by perfect digital pictures, even if most of the current content is crap.
“We should start a business” “We should have 2 locations, but name them different things” “That would be cost efficient and make total sense for marketing”
I remember an episode of Colombo where a Betamax was used to create an alibi for the murderer (you have to see the episode) . Anyway the murderer is showing off the video camera and Betamax to Colombo . Fascinated , he asks how much it goes for . $3000, not including the camera , of course
They really missed the simplicity and ease of use of the touch screen. all this infrastructure would have cost the govt trillions. Instead they blew all the money on cocaine and strippers.
Definitely interesting material in the world of Harry SMITH. You might be also interested to know that Smith engineered the first Blue note recording sessions for radical pianist composer Thelonious MONK.
The repeating picture in a picture of itself sequences, if only those people who had 1970's bathrooms and houses with tons of built in mirrors on everything also had camera phone to take selfies
That television station tower🗼 remind me of the Eiffel tower which I guess wasn't originally used for an antenna which is like that thing some cultures do before they get the actual technology they make things that look like it
