2020

[paleologos]

Yes, extremely so. In my day we did not allow this.

Which campaign era was your day exactly?

[Sir Adrian]

The good ol days of 1999, so basically Troy.

[Akar]

as early as 2018 such things were forbidden

[Cookiegod]

Back in my day men and women weren't allowed to talk to one another. I'm old school so I still don't.

[Akar]

still cant*

[Cookiegod]

In fact I only know what a c * nt looks like from your post in the Say-Cheese-thread.

[Akar]

i hope you get banned for that post because it literally killed our friendship

[Diamat]

Cookiegod is a smart cookie. As Kant would say, you can't know "can't" as a pure "Ding an sich," but only as a dirty epistemological "can't."

[King Athelstan]

I reddit on reddit

[Flinn]

I just want to remember people that Akar posted this at the very beginning of 2020, and we all know how it went

[Akar]

Yeah, that's on me guys. Sorry.

[Septentrionalis]

It's been a great year and a great thread. For me to poop on.

[Derc]

I wonder if in 50 years people will talk about the 20s (the 2020s) like we today talk about the 1920s.

Don't repeat the errors of the people back then, wondering about the future. Look to the past and you can actually answer much of it.

1970: "In 50 years we will have flying cars!"
2020: Not even the planes are flying

[Septentrionalis]

1970: "In 50 years we will have flying cars!"
2020: Not even the planes are flying

It is quite remarkable how difficult it is to predict the future. Almost all future predictions have a assumed material and energy-based advances like the flying cars that you mention. And cybernetic limbs and ray guns and the like. Not wireless communications and information systems. It is almost as time-consuming to travel to the other side of the world and space is still mostly out of reach, but no one expected that the great future would mean playing games and sharing pictures of cats in real time with people sitting on the other side of the world. And rifles still use the same kind of ammo as they did more than 100 years ago. In many cases even fully compatible ammo.

I genuinely think that we are no better to predict 2070 now than we were in 1970 predicting 2020.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

I believe in horses. Automobiles are a passing phenomenon."

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1905.

[Septentrionalis]

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1905.

I can imagine poor Wilhelm on his horse on a modern highway, witnessing a phenomenal number of automobiles passing him.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Yes, and this was the most harmless of all his miscalculations.

[Derc]

[...] but no one expected that the great future would mean playing games and sharing pictures of cats in real time with people sitting on the other side of the world.

A haunting question is:
What have the cats been up to in all this time?

[Septentrionalis]

A haunting question is:
What have the cats been up to in all this time?

A genius question. That may very well be the big surprise that nobody saw coming.

[Akar]

sleeping, mostly