This is just for fun, but appropriate since we are discussing the 9os in class this week. It is amazing to think of all the technology that has developed since you, my students, were born. Here is a spoof of what the TV show 24 would have looked like if it took place 14 years ago. Watch it with your parents and get them reminiscing. Let me know what they think. Also, what do you predict your children will be laughing about in our society? Which of our “modern conveniences” will seem silly and outdated when I am teaching your children?
When You Were Young
May 18th, 2008 · 19 Comments
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Allison Bruno
// May 19, 2008 at 1:10 pm
when we are older i think the computers that arent laptops will be something that children of the future find as something from the “olden days”. Where to us these computers are still very high up on the technology level and laptops are the newest thing. Also the cell phones we have now me be looked at as huge or wicked old. Just the same way we look at Zack’s cell phone from Saved By The Bell. (If you have never seen that show, his cell phone is HUGE.)
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buell
// May 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Remind me to show you one of my old cell phones that I keep in my classroom for show and tell. It’s not the first one I had, it’s the second…and it was considered small “back in the day.” It’s monstrous!
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vmurphy
// May 19, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Maybe ipods and iphones would be laughed at in the future.
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sam barrows
// May 19, 2008 at 8:26 pm
That video made me laugh a twidley bit to myself.
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chris whitten
// May 19, 2008 at 8:48 pm
in the future we are all gonna die due to john hamilton taking over the world.
juss kidding.
but were all screwed because technologys gonna learn too much and eventualli revolt against us. We’re juss digging our own grave by making robots and stuff. Yall know what im talking about?
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dmillen4
// May 19, 2008 at 9:02 pm
In the future there is probably going to be many new kinds of t.v.s . Maby the Plasma Screens and LCDs will be considered “old” who knows?
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dolanpresidentjacobs
// May 19, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I think phones will be outdated in the future.
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Taylor Aiello
// May 19, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Considering that the formats on which we watch movies change so drastically, I think that the current medium: Blu-Ray Discs, will become obsolete relatively soon. Things like digital camcorders are constantly being upgraded, so I would not be surprised to see cameras that can hold unfathomable amounts of pictures and videos.
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Andrew Hunt
// May 21, 2008 at 8:21 am
I think we will have tv screens in our eyes so that when we are in school and not listening we are at least getting something done
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Kevin Keohane
// May 21, 2008 at 11:35 am
My parents found it more realistic then funny. It shows how far our technology has come in 10 yrs.
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buell
// May 22, 2008 at 5:22 am
Oh Andrew I don’t think I could possibly teach to a group of kids with tv screens in their eyes!
Dolan, reports in the news last week said that 16% of American households do not have landlines and another 13% have landlines but only use their cell phones.
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Riley
// May 22, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I think in the future gas will be outdated by sunlight or something else
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jgurney
// May 26, 2008 at 7:26 pm
i saw something about a screen that you can watch on your hand and its holographic, but i don’t remember where or when that was
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sana
// May 27, 2008 at 3:23 pm
i dont think well have stuff like blockbuster anymore. itll all compleltly be on the internet, like via netflix and stuff. maybe we wont have mail at all. and i thought that video was hilarious. especially the pager. ahhaha.
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Marc
// May 27, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I think just about everything we use today will be really old in the future because everything that our parents used when they were kids seems really old to us now, so I think it will be the same for the next generation.
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Jessica Balzano
// May 28, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Wow…that’s a blast from the past. Honestly i completely forgot about dial-up and vhs and no cell phones. haha. In the future someone will probably make a video like this but using all the technology from this era and they will laugh at it.
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John Hamilton
// May 28, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Hmm… within roughly 30 years, even with a conservative estimate, it would be safe to say our current video and communication systems will be outdated. I expect more emphasis to be placed on the internet – already it’s the information center of our lives; I doubt it’ll be long before telephones and television are replaced by superior creations in relation to it. Landlines and the idea of “channel surfing” will be laughable, as communication will be hands free and media will be on demand.
In response to Andrew’s comment on television screens in our eyes… it’s not a far off idea. Within little more than a century, it’s possible that our minds could link directly into the internet, allowing every discovery mankind has ever made to be accessible within our heads. I don’t recall where I read this, but it was really astounding – every ounce of knowledge on Earth at your beck and call. Theoretically, of course… I’m not quite sure our minds could handle such a vast reservoir of information.
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T.O.
// May 30, 2008 at 10:55 am
i was just thinking about the whole technology advancemant while watching the video…..and i thought to myself that about 7-10 years ago, VHS was the thing to buy, and DVDs were brand new.Now that everyone has made the VHS DVD switch, they have produced blu-ray. It’s all about the money, and this event proves it.
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CBOYCE
// Jun 1, 2008 at 10:04 am
I do not think that phones will ever be outdated, i couldn’t think of any new ways of communication that could be created. In the near future there will probably be an advancement is LCD and plasma televisions.
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