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NorBro said:
As far as football fandom, it's just sports, in general. Athletic competition.
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Yeah but baseball isn't nearly as possible as it once was. (I wonder if tv has something to do with it. I feel like baseball translates really well into radio because there are discreet outcomes from the plays that are easy to report and visualize. Once you compete for viewers on TV, then football and basketball offer a lot more visual complexity and action.)

Plus, soccer is way more popular in the rest of the world than here
 
NorBro said:
Just like with video games, we never noticed this stuff living through it...really amazing mental phenomenon.
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We also don't notice how much it sucks not to be able to travel faster than light or back in time, not to have our own flying car or genetically engineered sex toy animal or clone in deep freeze waiting to absorb our consciousness should we fall ill.

It's not really a phenomenon. It's just living at any point in history and enjoying what it has to offer without any awareness of what the future holds. I'm sure our current video games suck compared to whatever they're playing in 20 years.
 
It was a phenomenon under the circumstances because we lived through a massive technical transition.

But it's not anymore because we're so advanced and can picture the future better. It wasn't as clear 20-30 years ago.

But now, I can imagine pretty much anything and everything existing and being possible, including all of the above you mentioned. Nothing would surprise me anymore.

As far as baseball, it's the sport I watch the least so not really sure what fans think about it, but I used to love falling asleep to late baseball games because of the slow-paced announcing ASMR.

The 2016 World Series was one of the greatest of all time.
 
Hmm. Star trek envisioned faster than light travel, teleportation, 3D printing with any molecule, androids receiving human consciousness, etc, in the 60s. Jules Verne and george melies way before that. Mary Shelley. Lots more people I dont know I'm sure. And for most of them, it wasn't just fantasy but a prediction.

But yeah, I think that scifi is sort of gaining in popularity as computers and associated technology become more powerful and the contours of where they could develop become clearer to people in general.

Maybe baseball should rebrand itself as a sleeping aid...
 
People have had strong imaginations since the dawn of time.

A lot of writing has been done.
 
NorBro said:
I think you're remembering it better than it was...nostalgia also helps, it feels good.

There's always been a decent amount of cutting as far as multi-camera, but no sky cameras, less cameras, less gimbals (steadicams), of course less resolution...

With MSs and CUs the detail is obviously better, but the WSs are straight up mud. (Eventually you can make out players by their body language but still.)

Just like with video games, we never noticed this stuff living through it...really amazing mental phenomenon.
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It's not that I don't notice it. It's that it's not all that important. I recall walking into a TV chain here in Miami in 2003 with my then frequent companion and noticing walls of the LCD (as they were called then) TV's broadcasting an NBA game and both of us being in awe at the picture quality. She, at that time, only had a 20" tube SDTV. We went our own ways later on but exchanged a few emails around 2009. I asked if she still had that old 20" TV. She said she did. I offered to consult on her next TV purchase. She politely declined.

In 2006, I decided to buy a 27" Advent tube TV, that had a progressive scan (480p, instead of 480i) because I wanted an inexpensive 4:3 model for the time when the majority of cable broadcasts was still in SD. The 55" HD Mitsubishi was in the living room, so I could compare quality right next to each other had I wanted to. I still watched most of the programming from my bedroom. Except the NFL. And the "Gilmore Girls".

Now, if one goes further back ... much further, to 1988-89. Sony made a similar model. A 27" progressive scan (or, as it was called then, Improved Definition). It retailed for $5,000 but didn't sell. We had a floor demo at the store for $3,000. I got a call from Glen Larson about it, we chatted, he came in on my day off and didn't buy it. Because the TV was OK, if you watched a very slow moving scene but ghosted terribly from everything else. My Advent was essentially the identical design 15 years later. And I bought it for $250. Brand new in the box.

PS. I hate SkyCam.
 
ahalpert said:
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NorBro said:
...we're so advanced and can picture the future better. It wasn't as clear 20-30 years ago.

But now, I can imagine pretty much anything and everything existing and being possible, including all of the above you mentioned. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
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NorBro said:
People have had strong imaginations since the dawn of time.
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Yeah, and?

They are separate thoughts.

I'm sure Star Trek-like nerds thought about flying in space ships for hundreds of thousands of years, but don't you think it's actually now really possible? Like on a daily basis to the moon or another planet in the coming years?

It's a comprehensible vision...whereas just a dream before. Did some believe it could really happen, yeah, maybe, but come on...
 
DLD said:
It's not that I don't notice it. It's that it's not all that important. I recall walking into a TV chain here in Miami in 2003 with my then frequent companion and noticing walls of the LCD (as they were called then) TV's broadcasting an NBA game and both of us being in awe at the picture quality. She, at that time, only had a 20" tube SDTV. We went our own ways later on but exchanged a few emails around 2009. I asked if she still had that old 20" TV. She said she did. I offered to consult on her next TV purchase. She politely declined.

In 2006, I decided to buy a 27" Advent tube TV, that had a progressive scan (480p, instead of 480i) because I wanted an inexpensive 4:3 model for the time when the majority of cable broadcasts was still in SD. The 55" HD Mitsubishi was in the living room, so I could compare quality right next to each other had I wanted to. I still watched most of the programming from my bedroom. Except the NFL. And the "Gilmore Girls".

Now, if one goes further back ... much further, to 1988-89. Sony made a similar model. A 27" progressive scan (or, as it was called then, Improved Definition). It retailed for $5,000 but didn't sell. We had a floor demo at the store for $3,000. I got a call from Glen Larson about it, we chatted, he came in on my day off and didn't buy it. Because the TV was OK, if you watched a very slow moving scene but ghosted terribly from everything else. My Advent was essentially the identical design 15 years later. And I bought it for $250. Brand new in the box.

PS. I hate SkyCam.
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haha...it's not important for us older folk.

But trust younger people notice.

They are not only born into a certain IQ but production value as well. Have technical expectations, even subconscious ones.
 
NorBro said:
Yeah, and?

They are separate thoughts.

I'm sure Star Trek-like nerds thought about flying in space ships for hundreds of thousands of years, but don't you think it's actually now really possible? Like on a daily basis to the moon or another planet in the coming years?

It's a comprehensible vision...whereas just a dream before. Did some believe it could really happen, yeah, maybe, but come on...
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I think it's complicated. I think that futurists for a long time gave thought that space travel was possible even if it wasn't going to happen in their lifetimes. But if you consider two hundred years to be a small amount of time relative to human history or geological history, then space travel was right around the corner as far as they were concerned. I do think that there was a seemingly more rapid pace of advancement of space travel during the Apollo era. People went from launching the first satellite to landing on the moon in a relatively short period of time. And I think that those developments inspired a sense that space travel would happen on a large scale sooner than it actually did. And that's what inspired Star Trek Star Wars 2001. And I think that there are multiple periods of History where some technological development makes people feel like we're living in the future and it inspires them to dream of Technologies of the future that may not be as close as they actually think they are. Steam power is another example. And right now, I think that the only advancement in space travel has been that SpaceX has made it cheaper to launch into orbit. I don't think that blue origins or Virgin Galactic are doing anything all that interesting. And I don't think we're any closer to traveling at the speeds that would get us out of the solar system or even to the edge of the solar system in a reasonable amount of time. I think that building a colony on Mars would be an arduous undertaking and I wouldn't want to live there. But just the fact that SpaceX and blue origin and Virgin Galactic are operating somewhat commercially is new and exciting and now if you want you can pay for a very expensive and brief excursion to the edge of our atmosphere

Basically I think Elon Musk is a great salesman
 
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NorBro said:
You would like a spot on his spacecraft...you already put your bid in... :biggrin:
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With my fear of heights? I think I'll wait for the federal space travel safety regulation moratorium to expire. Right now it's intentionally unregulated to nurture the industry

But hey after that do you want to spot me half a mill?
 
ahalpert said:
I think it's complicated. I think that futurists for a long time gave thought that space travel was possible even if it wasn't going to happen in their lifetimes. But if you consider two hundred years to be a small amount of time relative to human history or geological history, then space travel was right around the corner as far as they were concerned. I do think that there was a seemingly more rapid pace of advancement of space travel during the Apollo era. People went from launching the first satellite to landing on the moon in a relatively short period of time. And I think that those developments inspired a sense that space travel would happen on a large scale sooner than it actually did. And that's what inspired Star Trek Star Wars 2001. And I think that there are multiple periods of History where some technological development makes people feel like we're living in the future and it inspires them to dream of Technologies of the future that may not be as close as they actually think they are. Steam power is another example. And right now, I think that the only advancement in space travel has been that SpaceX has made it cheaper to launch into orbit. I don't think that blue origins or Virgin Galactic are doing anything all that interesting. And I don't think we're any closer to traveling at the speeds that would get us out of the solar system or even to the edge of the solar system in a reasonable amount of time. I think that building a colony on Mars would be an arduous undertaking and I wouldn't want to live there. But just the fact that SpaceX and blue origin and Virgin Galactic are operating somewhat commercially is new and exciting and now if you want you can pay for a very expensive and brief excursion to the edge of our atmosphere

Basically I think Elon Musk is a great salesman
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It’s kind of crazy that in the span of less than 70 years “we” went from getting around largely with horses and trains and not even yet having powered flight, to landing a man on the moon.
 
Run&Gun said:
It’s kind of crazy that in the span of less than 70 years “we” went from getting around largely with horses and trains and not even yet having powered flight, to landing a man on the moon.
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Also kind of crazy how little things have changed since then at least fundamentally. Greater fuel efficiency but otherwise the same modes of transport. And economist's like to talk about how if someone from the year 1880 walk into the kitchen in the year 1930 they wouldn't even recognize the appliances or how do you use the kitchen. But if someone from 1930 walked into a kitchen today, it would be all the same stuff plus maybe the microwave. Just digitized. So basically a greater change in lifestyle and quality of life from the 19th to the 20th century than from the 20th to the 21st

as Peter Thiel said, "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters"
 
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Ashton Kutcher was going to go with one of those guys but supposedly Mila urged him to give up/sell back his ticket (for the family), but now [supposedly] she regrets doing that.
 
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