Christian Kündig
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)Photo take with my pocket computer featuring 3.23 GHz A19 chip, 6-core CPU, 16-core Neural Engine and Hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
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I'd love to have those sideburns 🙂
Macario@grumpygamer Unlike yours this is a positronic computer, capable of delivering AGI under the Three Laws, with an extra serving of sideburns.
@macario_moreno Yeah, but sideburns are a subscription add-on.
@grumpygamer If instead you prefer a full beard like John McCarthy's, you will need to go for a Casio AI-1000 instead. This comes with a extra serving of LISP parentheses instead.
Thomas Sturm@grumpygamer In Lucifer's Hammer - a sci-fi novel from the mid-1970s - there is a scene in a docked Apollo-Soyuz mission where the Russians admire the scientific calculator of the US astronaut. It has the same vibe as this ad and from our perspective now both are similarly strange.
Our future exceeds 1970s sci-fi to an incredible degree.
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Sage@grumpygamer I think about this all the time.
Well, not this specific ad of course (lol), but like...how marvelous is it the level of computer we can fit in our pocket. It would have filled a room decades ago.
ArtGeek (Ken Tryon)Dick Tracy was still running in newspapers, and his wrist radio was still really cool science fiction. 😏
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Alt text missed stating that the person in the ad, holding the pocket computer and quoted about it, is SF writer Isaac Asimov
Alt text missed stating that the person in the ad, holding the pocket computer and quoted about it, is SF writer Isaac Asimov
@brouhaha *sign*. People like you drive more of my friends from mastodon. If you don't like the way I alt-text, don't follow me.
@grumpygamer sorry, I didn't mean to offend you
@brouhaha I do my best to add alt-text, which is more than most. 🙂
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Yes, and my message was not meant as a complaint. I'm sighted, but have a few blind friends, so I appreciate that there was reasonable alt text.
Yes, and my message was not meant as a complaint. I'm sighted, but have a few blind friends, so I appreciate that there was reasonable alt text.
Gracious 
AnthraciteUS$170 in 1980. Adjust for inflation and it’d be US$670 now.
Brain Bug@grumpygamer
Does that ad photo show Isaac Asimov? Greatvthinker, I didn't know how he looked like, if that's him he lookscas freaky and nerdish as his ideas 😉
Does that ad photo show Isaac Asimov? Greatvthinker, I didn't know how he looked like, if that's him he lookscas freaky and nerdish as his ideas 😉