That smoking is bad for them. You’d just be banging your head against their socially-acceptable-at-the-time drug addiction.
Person from 2020 magically appearing in 2090 and being told caffeine/excessive sugar is now regulated and ID checked
How would you regulare excessive sugar? Have a weekly quota of sugar that can be contained in food you purchase? Are they going to ban growing fruits?
Taxes on sugar beets and standards for manufactured foodstuffs, I’d assume. Chopping down the apple tree in your front yard is clearly absurd (or is it? I’m not sure what’s too absurd to happen anymore…), but saying that any loaf of bread with more than 20g of sugar must be labeled “cake” and taxed as such? That type of thing has already been happening for years.
I’d be okay without excess sugar, but I’m a firm believer that it is virtually impossible (for me) to function in modern society without caffeine. Our bodies want to sleep when we’re tired, but I have never had a job where I could say “I’m tired. I’m going to nap and come back in 8 hours.”
You know you can sleep at night and work during the day right?
Also napping isn’t sleeping for 8 hours.
You (and a lot of people tbf) need caffeine to stay awake mostly because your body gets used to it and then can’t function without it. Plenty of people do just fine without caffeine or other substances. It’s not magic and we’re not super humans or anything. We just don’t drink caffeine multiple times a day every day
Seems like this was already know in '47
The Internet, social media and how we can access absolutely everything from this tiny device
Plenty of SF writers lived in that era and they predicted the Internet.
For example: I can name the writer and his novel where he predicted AI writing engines.
Can you really though?
I mean, no jokes though, why don’t you just name him instead of saying you could? Lol
Found it and translated the relevant section:
So it is necessary to write something. It’s seemingly very simple - to write something. You stand in front of the conceptor, press a few keys at random and after ten seconds a slate pops up with a ready-made scheme, let’s say a novella, with developed plots, psychological character, the duration of the plot, an attractive point… Then the slate is thrown into a dialogoscript, which, having filled in the empty framework of the scheme with a record of the “verbal meat”, feeds it further, to the visionary and phonocombi… Then it is only necessary to teach the actors personalities, roles and twist it all with a copiosynchronization camera. Novelvision is ready.
Do remember that it comes from OLD times. Certain words are archaic now, certain were invented to sound futuristic and have no good equivalent.
…and I’d really prefer for people to come out with their own findings of similar predictions. The more the merrier.
Too broad a question.
Select a specific person.
Does the person need to have died in the 50s or do we just take the 50s version of them?
Alright who wants to take a stab at explaining to Joseph Stalin, Russia’s struggle with taking Ukraine?
Nice. [I see what you did there…](https://esolangs.org/wiki/All_Turing-complete_languages_are_brainfuck_equivalents
Interesting question. Given how intelligent he was, I don’t think that modern tech would be very hard for him to grasp.
I think that he’d find it difficult to understand how people the likes of Musk waste so much time and money on bullshit like Twitter instead of changing the world for better, with a snap of their fingers.
Yeah, he would be hard to explain technology stuff to just because I’m pretty sure he’d understand it better than I did within a few minutes and start asking questions that would put me totally out of my depth
He’d probably have some good things that would be hard to grasp for him. He could easily move somewhere where he won’t be shunned for his sexual preferences.
Yeah, imagine all the trauma and internalized homophobia to unpack, it would be a lot
The internet. Youd first have to explain computers, and thats not easy. Going further just compounds the issue.
This thing does math really really fast.
Cause it does math fast, we can use math to have it draw pictures like how you plot a graph.
These picture drawing math machines also talk to each other like a really fast phone call, all the time. So we can transfer pictures and words between them.
Also it makes phone calls but it doesn’t need a cable.
Also the pictures it can send are slowly eroding the foundations of our society like tides against a cliff, and we all feel the ground getting thinner beneath our feet, but if we turn off the water, like 5 people will be marginally less rich. And having 5 slightly less obscenely rich people is deemed unacceptable in our increasingly surreal society.
I think that’s a pretty good explanation for a person from the 50s
Mobile phones and the internet.
mobile phones are easy, in 50s some of people would be familiar with (ww2 era) military radios that could transmit voice, just explain that you don’t need to carry entire backpack of radio equipment, everything fits in this small device
It […] used an aerial wire that ran up the inside of the wearer’s sleeve
oof ouchie
have you ever seen a RF burn?
Mobile phones as phones—yes, maybe that’s easy. But that we don’t actually use them to TALK to people would be weird.
