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[–]GlutenIsGreat 57ポイント58ポイント  (9子コメント)

This, and the rest of the book is pasted on the inside of one of the toilet cubicles at the local hackerspace...

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 25ポイント26ポイント  (6子コメント)

Hijacking top comment to link to a copy of the relevant book online @ archive.org because, how cool is that??

[–]MSACCESS4EVA 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

I love the "totally not R2D2, nope not R2D2 at all" robot in the beginning.

[–]freshthrowaway1138 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Do you remember the RB5X?

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I didn't, but its wiki said that an old arcade game show called Starcade used to give it away and... Wait a minute... ARCADE game show? How am I just learning about this, I was 12 when that was a thing!!

[–]adammcbomb 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

oh man that is so cool. unfortunately they must have cut out some ads or something because the 2 page spreads stop lining up midway through.

[–]gaztelu_leherketa 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh my god, I used to have this book. I wonder if it's still around the house.

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's probably worth a shit-ton of money if still in reasonable condition btw

[–]brainstorm42 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I love when places have things to look at while pooping

[–]secular_eric 52ポイント53ポイント  (7子コメント)

"The lone survivor presses her panic button before passing into unconsciousness." This is how the watch will help people in the future. I mean, a person.

[–]andybev01 36ポイント37ポイント  (0子コメント)

It will aid in the search for her corpse.

r/morbidretrofuturism

[–]DylanCO 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

That got dark quick.

[–]Parlangua 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think that was actually the optimistic prologue. The first ship to arrive had a questionable crew that raped her unconcious body but thanks to the audio record of her risto the trial went well. It's a good thing too because neurological damage from oxygen deprevation left her partially paralyzed but all the publicity she got using her risto allowed her to found a charity to educate people of the benefits of ristos. The constant exposure to enormous amounts of risto radiation now leaves her confined to bed covered in multicolored growths and begging for the release of death we refuse to grant as there is much yet to be learned from her condition. Look for ristos soon in a department store near you but don't forget to purchase the accompanying stylish woven lead safety garments!

[–]Lukianox 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Reminds me of the Breitling Emergency watch

[–]apolotary 27ポイント28ポイント  (3子コメント)

I wish some Chinese company started producing low-cost retrofuturistic gadgets, I'd buy the shit out of them

[–]Tasgall 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, the crazy thing is that this, as shown, is actually *very possible right now.

We just don't have it because the goalpost moved from "a phone and radio in your watch" to "a fully featured smartphone in your watch".

Someone should get on this.

[–]ThreeOne 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

retropunk is the new steampunk

[–]austinzheng 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

A sufficiently motivated Westerner with a bit of technical aptitude could probably move to Shenzhen, get to know the supply chains, design and manufacture some of these things, and sell them on the Internet via word-of-mouth. Seems like a nifty idea for a hardware startup.

[–]Professor_Laser 41ポイント42ポイント  (7子コメント)

I like how the panic button is just on that little keypad in the middle of everything else. Seems problematic.

"Ok, going to call my friend aaaaand I just called 911 again."

[–]FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

My problem is, if you have a whole band around the arm you can run an antenna through, why the fuck do you need pop-up aerials?

[–]moonra_zk 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

Duh, antennas need to be straight.

[–]xtraspcial 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

No no, you run the antenna through your arm.

[–]zirdante 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

That is actually painfully true, old people constantly dial 911 just to get to talk to someone.

[–]MadMadHatter 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is one of the problems with a national health care system. I live in Japan where they have national health care and the clinics and hospitals are always flooded with old people. They can't ALL be in dire need of a doctor; I truly feel that at least half of not more are there just as a routine talk to the doctor thing in their otherwise boring lives.

[–]alohadave 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

One place I used to work at changed the outside line number to 7 because people kept dialing 911 by mistake then hanging up.

[–]Blalal 11ポイント12ポイント  (8子コメント)

It's weird that voting was one of the main functions mentioned. Oh also, there would be a large margin of error in voting. It's waaay to easy to press the wrong button. "Shit I just voted for Trump! I take it back!"

[–]michaelnoir 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

What about a message that pops up on the display: "Are you SURE you want to vote for Trump? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no".

[–]scotscott 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Press 1 for Clinton, PANIC for Trump.

[–]thecoffee 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

WAHHHH!

You yelled: ONNNNE!

Is that correct?

[–]moonra_zk 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

How about "Press 1 for YES, 9 for NO"?

[–]ApologiesForThisPost 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Considering even paper ballots can be confusing to some people.

[–]Jaakkoc 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hahah, yup. I would scrap the "important" and replace it with "mildly interesting".

[–]Servalpur 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

it's kind of funny how so many people could envision some type of internet-thing, but also just made the assumption that it would be completely secure. I'm sure there were writers and science fiction authors who predicted the idea of hackers well before networking gained any kind of prominence, but the vast majority of infographics and articles designed for mass consumption always just talk about how something internet-like will be capable of voting, no matter how dangerous it may be due to insecurity.

[–]broogndbnc 16ポイント17ポイント  (2子コメント)

The new Apple Watch looks great!

[–]crozone 24ポイント25ポイント  (1子コメント)

This one doesn't have a headphone jack either

[–]djtodd242 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

[–]Cybrknight 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Loved that book when I was a kid.

[–]tchernik 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cool little books. I asked my parents to get them all. Them and Neil Ardley's World of Tomorrow books left me a strong vibe of how the future would look.

Seeing them again after all these years surely brings some memories.

[–]Nicknacklemore 10ポイント11ポイント  (11子コメント)

I have a smartwatch, and I wish it looked like this.

[–]no_skillz 9ポイント10ポイント  (3子コメント)

Look at mister money bags over here /s

[–]Nicknacklemore 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm just your average werebear millionaire.

[–]SparkPlug24 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'd spend money on a smartwatch only if it looked like this.

[–]gonk_droid_prototype 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

[–]Augustus_Trollus_III -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

I love the look, I don't need the fitness part at all. I wonder if dx has a knock off.. hmm.

[–]gonk_droid_prototype -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, in case you change your mind, the fitbit does talk to satellites like the one in the book.

[–]Servalpur 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I have one, but I basically never use it. There's just no point. I bought it because it's a fucking smartwatch. How cool is that? It's like the future, from when I was a kid.

The uselessness of it hurts my soul. Smartphone makes up for it though, real life is definitely better than past-future.

[–]Nicknacklemore 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I'm glad it was a gift. The only time I ever used it was for cheating on a test with the calculator.

Ninja edit: NOT A MATH TEST TECHNICALLY DONT GET BUTTHURT

[–]garmonboziamilkshake 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Those antennae look a little pokey

[–]Numb3r_6 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Let's take this over to /r/shittykickstarters and see if we can push this as a real campaign.

[–]ademnus 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

And not a tiny word about loss of privacy. They didn't see that coming.

[–]rwsr-xr-x 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Because nobody really cares about that

[–]CowboyProgrammer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wow.. only an hour to count those votes? lol

[–]bitwise97 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

In 2016 I have a risto made by Apple computer. My 1979 self = mind blown.

[–]mutokangius 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

what does the M button do?

[–]Duckfang 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Probably to have the Risto memorise/save a number.

[–]mutokangius 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

oh yeah duhhh it probably could also stand for "menu"

[–]OkToBeTakei 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, the oldest cell phones used to have these.

[–]scotscott 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Adjust throttle map and shift map, change power steering mode, set traction and stability controls to sport mode. Oh, are we not talking bmws?

[–]chatrugby 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Haha I read that as Fisto at first.

[–]mobius_sp 1ポイント2ポイント  (12子コメント)

It's a nice idea for a gadget, but it's no Fisto. Beware of numbness, though.

[–]secular_eric 0ポイント1ポイント  (11子コメント)

Where is this, "Fisto," from?

[–]mobius_sp 4ポイント5ポイント  (10子コメント)

Fallout: New Vegas. The entire series is a retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic mashup.

Fisto has certain... skills... if you follow a certain questline.

[–]secular_eric 2ポイント3ポイント  (9子コメント)

Cheers. I did not know that.

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

Here's a video of doing his quest with typical Fallout campy humor. The quest is called "Wang Dang Atomic Tango" lol

[–]secular_eric 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Ha ha. Ok, I definitely feel informed now.

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Not sure if you're "the gamer type" but I really enjoyed that game (and the whole series, really).

[–]secular_eric 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I haven't played games in years- my last unit was a PS2.

[–]Hegiman 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

A Ted nudgent reference.

[–]ABC_AlwaysBeCoding 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I was not aware!

[–]Hegiman 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

He has a song called "wang dang sweet poontang" (poontang being vagina) as well as a song called "Wango Tango" so they used bits of each song title it seems and threw in the word atomic to make it fallouty sounding.

Edit: after writing that I realized they may have even wanted to call the quest "wang dang atomic poontang" as that would make sense, but we're told they couldn't say poontang.

[–]aftli_work 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

This is great. I wish I could see the page on the right with this magical satellite that could handle the entire nation of ristos. Also, I want to see the magic computer that can count 100 million votes in a mere hour - I'm sure Facebook would love to get their hands on that!

[–]PC-Bjorn 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

Facebook can handle serving megabyte upon megabyte of images, news and videos to more than 1.000.000.000 users, and a large part of these are constantly logged on. Reddit alone handles about 25.000.000 votes per day (source).

[–]kilroy123 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is pretty close to what we actually have in real life. This watch actually has a satellite emergency beacon: breitling watch

Plus, I have a GPS device that you can use to send text messages /emails / facebook posts via satellite. Soon we're going to have broadband internet, as well as current voice.

It won't be long at all, until we'll have this all wrapped up in smart watch.

[–]babkjl 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I also have an InReach that I use to email my wife when I'm out hunting. It's not as small as the watch, but it fits inside a pocket and works quite well. It's a little expensive to use, but reasonable for what it does in the middle of nowhere.

[–]zzzuluz 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The conceptual artist sure must like the numbers 8, 3, 6, 0, and 1.

[–]Tuxpc 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Usbourne (?) Book of the Future, baby! I wish I had gotten the omnibus edition, but it now sells for a fortune. I have the transportation one, and the one about houses and cities, I think.

[–]TechnicalAardvark 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ha, a friend gave me a copy this year they found working at an op-shop (which he bought for like $1), I had no idea it was so pricey. I love all the artwork, even if they were a bit hit-and-miss with their predictions.

[–]hijack73 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Plus, I have the transportation one, and the one in the middle of everything else.

[–]Mr_Pinkish 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh also, there would be a large part of these and thought it looked like this.

[–]Fidodo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Risto sounds like a startup name

[–]hairchest666 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Loved that book when I was 12 when that was a kid.

[–]J0ofez 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I remember this! I remember reading this in a book in my primary school library back in the late 90s! Man these books were the best. Anyone got the title?

[–]rocket_raccon 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Emergency button. For "emergencies" only.

[–]Dragonair476 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why would it take an hour to count 100 million electronic votes?

[–]TotesMessenger 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

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[–]Robotman1974 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I think this is from the Osbourne Book of the Future.

[–]djtodd242 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

It definitely is! I must have read this book a hundred times as a kid.

Edit: You bastard. I fell for that.