What Would Most Surprise A Visitor from 1991?

[Barrister]

We had cell phones in 1991.  Big ones - the size of a brick, but we had cell phones.

Modern smart phones are not all that remarkable compared to ancient cell phones - except for their ability to connect to the internet.

[HVC]

We had cell phones in 1991.  Big ones - the size of a brick, but we had cell phones.

Modern smart phones are not all that remarkable compared to ancient cell phones - except for their ability to connect to the internet.

ya i remember the brick ones (saved by the bell ) the only reason i gave the bupm to smart phones is that they include internet.

[Ideologue]

Isn't Blade Runner set more or less in our times?

Depends on how you define "less".  You retard.

Seriously, I can't stop laughing at this.

I've got to get to the off-world colonies.  A new life awaits.

[crazy canuck]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

[Ideologue]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

The Soviet Union falls, and, subsequently, the world goes to hell?

[crazy canuck]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

The Soviet Union falls, and, subsequently, the world goes to hell?

Exactly WTF!

[BuddhaRhubarb]

all things computer/internet related. I recall all sorts of crazy future predictions from that era.... most of them easily done and surpassed now. Except NO FLYING CARS! motherfucjker I want my flying car.

[HVC]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

The Soviet Union falls, and, subsequently, the world goes to hell?

Exactly WTF!

World always needs a boogyman. Nothing changes.

[HVC]

all things computer/internet related. I recall all sorts of crazy future predictions from that era.... most of them easily done and surpassed now. Except NO FLYING CARS! motherfucjker I want my flying car.

Personally i want a robot butler.

[Malthus]

all things computer/internet related. I recall all sorts of crazy future predictions from that era.... most of them easily done and surpassed now. Except NO FLYING CARS! motherfucjker I want my flying car.

Personally i want a robot butler.

How about a Roomba, for a robot maid? 

[HVC]

all things computer/internet related. I recall all sorts of crazy future predictions from that era.... most of them easily done and surpassed now. Except NO FLYING CARS! motherfucjker I want my flying car.

Personally i want a robot butler.

How about a Roomba, for a robot maid? 

not the same without the sassy back talk.

[Malthus]

all things computer/internet related. I recall all sorts of crazy future predictions from that era.... most of them easily done and surpassed now. Except NO FLYING CARS! motherfucjker I want my flying car.

Personally i want a robot butler.

How about a Roomba, for a robot maid? 

not the same without the sassy back talk.

And dressing a Roomba in a sexy french maid outfit is a bit of a fail. 

[Ideologue]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

The Soviet Union falls, and, subsequently, the world goes to hell?

Exactly WTF!

World always needs a boogyman. Nothing changes.

Two billion Muslims and PRChinese can't make up for a hundred fifty million Russians?  That's racist, dude.

[Ideologue]

If I visited directly from 1991 I would be surprised that everything was so fucked up.  In 1991 all things seemed possible.  The Cold War was over.  Peace and prosperity were supposed to follow.  Everyone was talking about the peace dividend.

And then somehow everything went wrong.

The Soviet Union falls, and, subsequently, the world goes to hell?

Exactly WTF!

Aren't a lot of our current ills also attributed to unrestrained capitalism?

[Razgovory]

This makes me realize that while only twenty years have passed here in the US sixty or seventy years have passed in Portugal.