Why didn't we get the fantastic future we were promised?
In 1962, it was possible for the President of the United States to stand in front of the nation and say 'we choose to go to the moon!' - and for the nation to deliver it 7 years later. At that moment, the future felt limitless.
But today, the US cannot even send a man into low earth orbit without relying on Russian technology (itself a 1960s relic), and has no capacity at all to put a man on the moon, let alone anywhere further afield.
50 years ago, people were told that by now we would be living in underwater cities, driving flying cars and having vacations on the moon - or even Mars.
Instead, when we go on vacation in 2016, we still often board Boeing 747s - a plane designed before the invention of the pocket calculator, and which first flew in 1969 - BEFORE that moon landing. We don't even have supersonic airliners anymore - which we did have in 1976.
We were promised by President Nixon in 1971 that cancer would be cured by the time of the US bicentennial. It didn't happen.
We were told we were entering the Atomic Age - that by the year 2000, a thousand nuclear reactors would be powering America. But today, the US has only 100 nuclear reactors.
What happened? Why didn't that bright future materialise? And how can we go back and rediscover that bright future that we all want?
>>56139203
What do you mean? India is sending a man to Mars before 2020.
>>56139203
materials technology hasn't scaled with computation power
the economics of space are not there for private business on a large scale, and the cold war is over
just generally, problems that we thought would be easy turned out hard, and market forces have worked against many goals.
>>56139203
our newfound alien technology only took us so far. blame the aliens for leaving us. also blame them for not telling us the dangers of becoming slaves to new technology. we dun goofed big and now we all just inhale large amounts of media to distract us from our impending doom because we refuse to change and unite under a common goal.
i'm not calling myself smart but i hate that i'm smart enough to see us running like lemmings towards obvious destruction.
Why don't you use full disk encryption? Remember thumbnails and temp files store sensitive data.
>>56139196
>Why don't you use full disk encryption?
For a laptop? Sure.
For my desktops? Nope.
You use encryption to prevent others from accessing your sensitive data. If someone gets physical access to my desktop then I have bigger security problems.
>>56139222
Better safe than sorry. Anyone can rob a house in just a few minutes.
h-how can i do that
Is he "our guy"?
What
Maybe, since he only knows useless surface-level bullshit about the tech he spends 10+ minutes talking about.
He's nobodies guy.
Tech is a content source to him, he has to shit out videos non-stop to keep his business running.
Searching for used 17" business laptops, screen resolution 1920x1200, standard keyboard; please offer to [email protected]
Install gentoo :^)
>>56139139
ZA WARUDO
>>56139640
Hot
What's the best 1070 variation out right now /g/?
Probably an EVGA one, their warranty is great. They always have like 6 models of a new card, one is bound to be good for you.
Just buy the EVGA one, don't think about it. Buy it.
Gainward.
So sometimes when I'm on 4chan on my phone on the sites home screen there is a redirecting popup/ ad that says bullshit about RANDOM INFECTION CALL 1800
Pic not related
This normal?
>>56139066
so you call it? obviously google wants the best for you asshole.
>>56139084
Nigga...
Discuss and post cute mini laptops/netbooks.
:3
I want to like them, but why not just a Chromebook. Has there been any newer netbooks of late?
I have pic related and it runs kinda slow using xubuntu. While it's faster as before (fuck Win7 starter ed.) I think more is possible. Especially Firefox is sluggish, Palemoon not as much. Any advice?
>inb4 Arc/ i3. I don't use it daily and am no poweruser
An IBM spokesman talked about the internet of things at my uni today.
Is this meme really going to take off?
>>56139006
I hope not. I see more downsides than upsides.
>>56139006
Yes, advertisers are running out of ways to abuse your privacy and behavior on phones, so they need to shift things a bit.
>>56139006
semen demon
http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/new-pushback-over-obamas-internet-giveaway/
>http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/new-pushback-over-obamas-internet-giveaway/
NOT A SINGLE THREAD ON IANA TRANSITION
2 WEEKS USA WILL LOSE CONTROL OF IANA WITH IT THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM
THE INTERNET DARKAGES ARE NIGH!
>THE INTERNET DARKAGES ARE NIGH!
>>56138953
>Becoming schizophrenically worried when Uncle Sam loses control of something
>>>/pol/
>>>/out/
The largest demographic of people are mandarin speaking chinese. Its not 'happening'. It happened 5-10 years ago.
>>56139004
>OK LETS JUST GIVE IT AWAY THEN!
makes perfect sense
arbitrary an capricious rules are the best rules for the internet anyways
>IANA
>controlling power in internet censorship
"no"
As long as ISPs occupy nations, nothing will change. fuck off, /pol/.
I want to be either a network/sys/database admin, a network architect, or work cybersecurity (something like a security analyst). should I get a cybersecurity degree, an information security degree, or something else?
>>56138880
you should deal meth
OP here. I take my Network+ cert exam in a couple weeks and I'm planning on doing security+ in the next year. anything I should study on my own to prepare for a job in that field? I'm only going to college because I need the slip of paper that says I did.
so what would best help get me a job?
Hello /g/ I have a question
I want to put a what is the most powerful GPU I could fit in this little shit mind that this is not the slim series.
It's a DELL Inspiron 660
I also replaced one of my 4 GB ram cards with an 8 GB one
I want this to be my frist mid level gaming PC Im only doing because i got a deal and got the desktop for 10 dollars!
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/inspiron-660/manuals
This is it if you're lazier and more tech savvy than me
Also I knowI'm going to have to upgrade the PSU
And I would also like advice on that too please
>>56138836
>>56138859
And I am thinking around the GTX 950?
Pls gib advice
What android app do you use for quick notes? Been bouncing between nominated, monospace, and write pro and I can't settle on one.
pen and paper
>>56138787
Google Keep
along with keep.google.com when I'm at work and want to write a reminder for myself
>>56138787
*Mimi notes, not sure how auto correct fucked it up
Is it the year of the Linux desktop yet, /g/ ?
This is unironically the decade of the Linux desktop.
Post more Holo
>>56138720
>Linux
>Desktop
Pick one.
What the fuck is going on?
Carding is so popular in my city these days, people keep installing skimmers on virtually every POS far from direct shop employee supervision and people keep buying shit with stolen cards wtf is this? How do we stop this? It's ruining small businesses can police ever do something about this shit?
>>56138617
>can police ever do something about this shit?
Police can't but swapping to chip and pin helps.
Just pay with sex. It's what I do.
>>56138641
why the fuck don't police ever arrest these people for stealing?
W-w-what do I do /g/?
>>56138579
install gentoo
Stop using Windows 10 or fuck off back to >>>/v/.
>>56138604
>using software maintained by autists who do it for free
>using outdated software
>being a faggot
Your post suggests that at least one of the above applies to you.