STILL HAVE NOT GOTTEN OUR OWN STORE WITHIN STAR WARS

I think with the advancement of LLM many of those AI prophecies have been fulfilled. I found it sad that I’m no longer interested in that future, though.

Some images are so heavily JPEGized that it hurts the eyes to look at them. Unfortunately it looks like the source scans from the IA are so...

I love digging those retro future concepts that echo so well with our times.

As a side note, and border topic, it reminds me of the "My Uncle" (Mon Oncle) sequence of the Villa Arpel from Jacques Tati (who had the finesse to observe the paradoxes of society's evolution).

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuGA4ZNSS8c>

The fountain that switches on when important people get in and switches off when house employees walk by (in order to economize water), the automatic garage door designed like no one would ever need any security switch, the geometric garden where the characters end up walking awkwardly.

ps: I remember seeing those ads in another article. FWIW.

Awesome! I love looking through old tech magazines and remembering how bright and promising the future looked in their pages!

The tone of those articles suggests the authors anticipated a very different economic environment, probably in the spirit of "as technical progress marches on, so does the quality of life". So the machines were foretold to organize parties and choose suitable wines.

In reality these 2 went in opposite directions, clearly the speed of tech progress was underestimated and the kind of future economy was wrongly predicted. But hey, these were leisure magazines, who'd take them seriously.