Charlie StrossRE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399
I miss the future.
Emily_S
Robert Petersen 
@cstross the future was better when it was 8Bit
JdeBPAlthough that *is* #UnixWorld magazine from 1985. It was thoroughly 16-bit, starting with Xenix/286 on its front cover and continuing with an MC68000-based HP supermicro. One of the articles was even about running stuff on a 32-bit AT&T 3B2.
@cstross
#Unix #InstructionSetArchitecture #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing
Angus McIntyre
Chantaru
Cavyherd
HighlandLawyer
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@HighlandLawyer @cavyherd @cstross
But no augments, just techbros.
@jrdepriest @cavyherd @cstross
A number of whom have declared they are inherently (or genetically) superior to everyone else, either by virtue of being super-rich techbros, or through "white superiority". With some dabbling in very dodgy science to "enhance" themselves (teenagers blood, nootropic drugs, etc). Seems to match the "augments" pretty closely, maybe the name is applied retrospectively if they lose.
A number of whom have declared they are inherently (or genetically) superior to everyone else, either by virtue of being super-rich techbros, or through "white superiority". With some dabbling in very dodgy science to "enhance" themselves (teenagers blood, nootropic drugs, etc). Seems to match the "augments" pretty closely, maybe the name is applied retrospectively if they lose.
@HighlandLawyer @jrdepriest @cstross
I really hate it when I type out a Very Clever Reply, only to read down the thread & find that somebody else got there first, better—
LOL 👍
See also: 😬
Oof. And also: yeah.
SoapDog
The Penguin of Evil@cstross ah you sure it's not just someone blinding the spybots on the built in video cameras so they can secretly connect to signal 😁
xaxat
Martin W
LairdClark@cstross
I miss the haircuts.
I miss the haircuts.
Hugo Mills@cstross It's definitely not what it used to be.
The article to which that picture and the related one on the front cover (the same woman seemingly impressing Toyah Wilcox, looking over her shoulder, by using a monitor in portrait orientation as a tanning bed to turn her chest bright orange) belongs has some wild but not *entirely* off predictions.
IBM will win the standards war, with Token Ring and two things that fell by the wayside so thoroughly that I've never encountered them even on OS/2 or PC-DOS.
UIs will employ dynamic function keys, have context-sensitive help, be voice-driven, and will 'eliminate the need for a mouse to always be present to use the system'. (Hey, Cortana! Did that come true?)
MS-DOS will be rewritten in C and become capable of running #Unix programs alongside MS-DOS ones.
And everyone will need a VT-100 (sic!) terminal emulator on their PCs.
#UnixWorld #DECVTs #TerminalEmulators #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing #xterm
Charles Gillanders@JdeBP do you know if unix world is archived anywhere to read?
I'm lucky enough to still have several #UnixWorld back issues. Although I couldn't find March 1985 in a quick search through the stack. I wasn't really able to afford such extravagances in 1985.
Enjoy the Internet Archive and Unix Toyah Wilcox. (-:
Rev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@cstross this is what they took from us: shooting rainbows out of hands and asymmetric polyester hair weaves
Mark Dennehy
Pxl Phile
Tim Hergert
cR0w 
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maaneeack
𐁂𐀑𐀐𐁐@cstross meanwhile, in our shitty March 2029: "President Newsom announces surge in Iran to turn the tide of war. Calls for 'tightening belts' at home as oil hits $350/barrel."
@Emerson61 If the gulf crisis goes on for that long the hyper-inflation will have taken hold. Make that oil at $3,500/barrel. At least.
Amro has been@cstross I did love the idea of cyber-puppetry
Domestic Supply 
@cstross The only unambiguous real world improvement over this prediction is that our screens are larger, more readable and lighter.
J3RN 
helielo
Jürgen HubertI collect old books that try to predict the future.
My favorite prediction was:
"We will irrigate the Sahara desert by blasting irrigation channels into it with nuclear weapons!"
clewI expect you’ve both skimmed the incredibly terrible one by one of the Astors
Tilting the axis of the Earth, really awful public transit, and big game hunting in the jungles of Jupiter
Serge 🔻