No one leaves doors unsecured any longer. For example I have worked at my clinic for coming up on 26 years now. (Wow, that went fast!) The first 22 years our back door was simply unlocked and was the employee entrance. Often it was propped open to let in air circulation and the random bug. Now it has a number code thing you must enter each time to gain "egress".
In 1987 I was stationed at US Army Hospital Berlin. In the x-ray department we read an article about how a new technology was being developed called "digital radiography". The idea was that instead of film and chemicals you would have the image captured on some kind of sensor plate within the cassette and the final image would be displayed on a screen for viewing.
In 1987 most TV resolution was 480i. We actually thought that was right sharp and clear. "Top Gun" looked awesome on my VCR playing on my 28" Sony Trinitron. I was happily recording hours and hours of MTV (which I really need to digitize one day before them tapes simply dry rot out of existence. It might already be too late, but I have it all still. Stupid passage of time!) Yes, AFRTS provided us with MTV in Berlin! I was 20 in 1980 and 29 in 1989. I comfortably pissed away my life watching MTV, a phenomenon that shall never be repeated. Why have MTV when all videos are now 720p-1440p (2160p is still fairly rare yet.) on YouTube? I watch 'em on my IPhone X.
Well anyways, so this x-ray technology. We laughed at it. Can you imagine viewing analog film on a 1987 TV screen. It could not touch, come close, to the resolution of film. Yes we had computer monitors then. My Amiga 500 that I played "Pools of Radiance" on was like a gift from God. (When I saw the Nintendo for the first time I thought--god them graphics are crap. Nevertheless I became deeply addicted to "Castlevania". I actually stuck one our old 25" TVs on top of the cedar chest at the foot of our bed to facilitate easy gameplay.) But the resolution even on them (computer monitors) was still pretty low. Somewhere between 480p and the very low end of what we think of today as 720p. It was better resolution than TV, but not much. Watching TV on a computer monitor in 1987 was unimaginable, in fact inconceivable to me. So we were pretty confident that was all just a pipe dream, that digital business. And we went on with our lives.
Well to make a long story short, in 2007 we replaced our film and chemicals with digital plate cassettes. I went in the morning from taking x-rays in the same way humans had taken x-rays since 1900 to the 21st century in the afternoon. (Yes, I was taught manual processing and had used it at times in my career. But we at least had a daylight processor--no darkroom required.) Talk about a paradigm shift! The decades old 24 hour turnaround time to include the courier picking up the films in their big thick 14"X17" jackets, the radiologist getting to them and the films being returned along with the paper reports, vanished! The radiologist had the images at the touch of a key. "Wet" readings actually became instant. The film 'n chemicals ended. The daylight processor sat empty for a while, but was eventually removed. You can't tell where it was looking at the floor (which has been resurfaced twice since that day) now. X-ray no longer smelled like chemicals. No more silver recovery crap. Yay!! The thing about x-rays is that they are big and space taking. And you had to keep a lot of them around--6 years worth in case somebody came back for a chest or something.
Around the year 2012 all of the patient film files were removed to some storage location and what had been the xray files was now converted into a phone center for PSRs (Personal Service Representatives). They are behind me as I type and we get along swimmingly! About one month ago, my xray machine which had operated wonderfully and faithfully for 23 years gave up the ghost. We shall replace it with direct capture digital radiography. The need to develop at all will now be gone. Obtaining the image and producing the image will be simultaneous. Prior to this our digital cassettes had to be "developed" in a separately located digitizer for viewing. A step that added substantial time to the whole process.
So that is just in my job.
When I sat down in front of the internet--the World Wide Web--in 1995 for the very first time at a school demonstration that I attended with my second wife and son, I had no idea what I was looking at. It was just a computer screen like my Amiga screen, but with a lot of numbers and letters and some print that I can't recall, I don't think there was even pictures. It made the most fleeting impression on me. (My technical entertainment world then was VCR movies, "Sim City" on my Amiga 1000, and my Sega Genesis--God I loved playing Polterguy-"Haunting") I did not understand the concept and implications of the internet that night. I had to go though a big long period of WebTV through to about 2005 when I bought my first windows PC. I mean that you could connect to the internet. I have had a computer in one form or another since my TRS-80 (the old "trash 80" lol! Anybody remember "Dungeons of Daggorath"? ARARARARAR! ;) in 1985. In 2007 I began to visit "Second Life". A lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w88eURokvA&t=10s
Today I have an Alienware Area 51 PC with 8 TBs of storage and an Oculus Rift with the touch controllers. I have an Xbox One. My "monitor" is a 75" Sony 4K flat screen. (I have been happily single since 1996 ;) I cut the (cable) cord years before most did. I get everything I need from iTunes or Netflix. I raid 3 nights a week in World of Warcraft--we are currently 4/11 H-Burning Throne. We aren't the best, but we have a lot of fun. We talk in "Discord". I get my "Curse addons" from "Twitch". Here is miss Izumilaryuko. I love this mog... lol!
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/velen/izumilaryuko
I first heard of reddit about 2012 or so. I lurked for a good year before I began to want to share my thinking and post stuff.
I read this article in 2011 and it permanently changed the way I understood things. Shortly thereafter I read "The Singularity is Near". I never looked back. I know how things work now. I believe I am forewarned and forearmed now.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
Oh and about that film resolution. In 2007 we also installed high def monitors that improved on analog film resolution by 60%. Talk about transcending. By 1987 standards, this was that "inconceivable" pure magick! Analog film could not touch monitor screen resolution. We control the contrast and penetration appearance with a mouse. We can zoom in and fully maintain resolution. Back in the day it was hot-lights and magnifying glasses. And me and my docs take it all for granted. So 1987, 1997, 2007. 20 years from first reading (and not believing) to actually experiencing. Things are moving much faster now of course.
I would really like you to read this and see the overview of how things have changed and why it is going to get absolutely crazy in the next 20 years. Like nothing humans have ever experienced. It's a bit of a rabbit hole. Read what you like. ;)
So what do we see that is experimental or prophesied today that we think sounds like impossible magick, but in 10 years (because what used to take 20 years now takes ten or even five) will be normal "reality".
Tell me your story! :D
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