How about the music in this documentary? Wow, set the stage for all 70's and 80's computer themed 'anything' would have this style of background music.
Technically true. Digital computers are smaller, faster and cheaper now, But the root concepts: RAM, ROM, Processor units, operating systems, programming languages and mass storage were pretty much settled by the mid 1950s. Even seemingly recent "1980s sounding" things like hard drives (IBM RAMAC,1956) and ASCII (1963) are over 50 years old. "Fortran", the mother of all high level languages (and the root of BASIC) is from 1957 and is STILL used on super computers today! A time traveling computer technician from the 1950's would be impressed with our hardware and would have to get used to modern operating systems, But he would STILL know how it "works".
@@zatozatoichi7920 nah that's also not a new concept it's been thought over for a long time, it just couldn't be completed. The biggest difference to then and now is the large scale implementation of machine learning. (I hope i spelled everything correctly, because I have dyslexia : D )
It's interesting that this came out in the early 1970's. In High School, we had a direct link to the mainframe at the Naval Undersea Systems Command in New London, CT. A mainframe, and we had a terminal, not even a video display. Now, I probably have more computing power in my pocket when I stick my Android phone in it to go out the door, and I certainly have more power in my desktop computer, even though it's 6+ years old. As to privacy, we gave that up, unknowingly at first. If you don't believe me, Google yourself. There is supposed to be a complex in Utah, I believe, run by the NSA, that copies every single piece of data that flows across the Internet, and then stores it. I believe that, you know? That line about information is power is very true!
You have 30-50 times the computing power on average in your smart watch (typically in the range 5-9 GFLOPS) than the Cray-1 supercomputer had in 1975 (160 MFLOPS, costing roughly 30+ million dollars in today's money, weighting 5,5 tons). Today, a single, high-end consumer graphics card is in the 20-35 TFLOPS range in FP32 performance. TFLOPS. Mind-blowing stuff.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I was stupid forgot my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
@Kameron Landyn thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@@Astrovite Cool! I ended up, briefly working at Radio Shack in the early '80s. The boss was a pain, But I got to see, sell and mess with some cool shit! 👍😊👍
Often with forward thinking analyses, the best projections still miss the mark. This was a very well balanced look at future possibilities, both good and bad. That said, the privacy & control issues mentioned could not have been more accurate!
The loss of privacy was well known even then. Everyone had been reduced to computer data since the 1950s. (IRS, Social Security Administration, The FBI..) And well before then, "You" were a bunch of files in folders. The big difference is today, we volunteer to give up our privacy by posting every minute of our lives to "social media". "THEY" would have loved to have been able to get as much info as we GIVE "them" now.
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Attention, sentient machines... the Prime Directive.... *Mother Music must be given the honor and respect that is Her due* . So let it be programmed. So let it be compiled and run.
What a brilliant documentary. So many clever people covered. The Ralph guy who predicted the computer bringing an end to people’s privacy was genius.
I love this show! It is great from the beginning to the end.⭐🌟
How about the music in this documentary? Wow, set the stage for all 70's and 80's computer themed 'anything' would have this style of background music.
All we've done since this film was made is refine the technologies that were in place at that time... nothing is truly new...
Technically true. Digital computers are smaller, faster and cheaper now, But the root concepts: RAM, ROM, Processor units, operating systems, programming languages and mass storage were pretty much settled by the mid 1950s. Even seemingly recent "1980s sounding" things like hard drives (IBM RAMAC,1956) and ASCII (1963) are over 50 years old. "Fortran", the mother of all high level languages (and the root of BASIC) is from 1957 and is STILL used on super computers today! A time traveling computer technician from the 1950's would be impressed with our hardware and would have to get used to modern operating systems, But he would STILL know how it "works".
Except quantum computing.
@@zatozatoichi7920 nah that's also not a new concept it's been thought over for a long time, it just couldn't be completed. The biggest difference to then and now is the large scale implementation of machine learning. (I hope i spelled everything correctly, because I have dyslexia : D )
It's interesting that this came out in the early 1970's. In High School, we had a direct link to the mainframe at the Naval Undersea Systems Command in New London, CT. A mainframe, and we had a terminal, not even a video display. Now, I probably have more computing power in my pocket when I stick my Android phone in it to go out the door, and I certainly have more power in my desktop computer, even though it's 6+ years old.
As to privacy, we gave that up, unknowingly at first. If you don't believe me, Google yourself.
There is supposed to be a complex in Utah, I believe, run by the NSA, that copies every single piece of data that flows across the Internet, and then stores it. I believe that, you know? That line about information is power is very true!
You have 30-50 times the computing power on average in your smart watch (typically in the range 5-9 GFLOPS) than the Cray-1 supercomputer had in 1975 (160 MFLOPS, costing roughly 30+ million dollars in today's money, weighting 5,5 tons). Today, a single, high-end consumer graphics card is in the 20-35 TFLOPS range in FP32 performance. TFLOPS.
Mind-blowing stuff.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
@Maddox Zain instablaster :)
@Kameron Landyn thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Kameron Landyn It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thank you so much, you saved my ass !
The cool thing is that less than a decade after this film came out, I went to my local Radio Shack and got my OWN computer!
I freakin' miss Radio Shack. I was born in 95 but as a teenager I got so many components and neat electronics at Radio Shack.
@@Astrovite Cool! I ended up, briefly working at Radio Shack in the early '80s. The boss was a pain, But I got to see, sell and mess with some cool shit! 👍😊👍
That was a trip, still hear it echoing to this day.
Often with forward thinking analyses, the best projections still miss the mark. This was a very well balanced look at future possibilities, both good and bad. That said, the privacy & control issues mentioned could not have been more accurate!
The loss of privacy was well known even then. Everyone had been reduced to computer data since the 1950s. (IRS, Social Security Administration, The FBI..) And well before then, "You" were a bunch of files in folders. The big difference is today, we volunteer to give up our privacy by posting every minute of our lives to "social media". "THEY" would have loved to have been able to get as much info as we GIVE "them" now.
@@jamesslick4790 Without a doubt!
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7:25 Computer Communications CC-303
7:23 They weren't joking about that!
That Pool game was included with Windows 68 SE. 😜
Even back then the loss of privacy and freedom was a concern, and the abuse of private information.
So "wreck it" Ralph Nader actually got one thing correct? I'll be damned, I guess even a blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut.
And a broken (analog) clock is right twice a day.
The Sports Illustrated magazine cover shown at 17:28 is from April 1970.
7:24 pretty advanced for the era. What's that computer?
Computer Communications CC-303
It is an odd feeling that the speak of old computer films seem almost identical to the speak of HAL 9000. HAL was an echo of this age.
11:42 nice vintage Tamiya Panther 1/25 scale 👍
Only those high blops and beeps used for ambience ("the music") didn't age well.
Computers run the world...and you and I.
Music is musical.
Attention, sentient machines... the Prime Directive.... *Mother Music must be given the honor and respect that is Her due* .
So let it be programmed. So let it be compiled and run.
Good film, Periscope. WAY too many human are being folded, stapled and mutilated.
One day they will invent supercomputers that will fit on a desk and users will be able to get pornography on demand at the speed of light.
i don't think that thats smart to do tbh...
although it would be pretty nice 😏
@@fensti7917 I dont like sex on my computer, I keep falling off!
@@robertcraane7910 hahah yeah 😔😔😔
@04:12 Microsoft has entered the chat
7:07 that little girl looks like she's not having any of that.
Yep. Making the computer "cry" probably turned her off to math or computers or BOTH. Poor Kid!
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Life was better without 'em!
20alphabet No, it definitely wasn't.
Then get off RUclips. Stat!
Technology will be our doom :)
Lol
They didn't envision an endless cycle of updates, security holes, more updates, and more failures due to lazy programmers.
LOL...now more than ever the computer is a contraption of the devil. AI will see us all enslaved to these blessed things LOL.
Why are they blessed you make no sence?