Austin Sixteen (1948)

[WuffvonTrips]

Came out the farm shop to find this magnificent beast parked up next to me...originally his Dad's car. Apparently it has onboard hydraulic jacks at each wheel.

(Not so much a "Versus" but even less of an artistic scenic photo, I just wanted to celebrate the interesting juxtaposition).

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[Fish Fingers]

Amazing to think how things have moved along in one generation.

My dad was born in Dec 1929 so that, for example could have been his brand new car when he was 18/19.

And nowadays I drive him round in my Taycan.
No wonder he struggles to grasp what say Android Auto is/does.

I find the whole human evolution fascinating (and quite scary going forward).

Remembering that not that long ago, your life would have basically been the same as say your Great great great great Grandparents.
Things didn't change for hundreds/thousands of years at a time (pic).

Now look what's happening just within one generation!

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Amazing to think how things have moved along in one generation.

My dad was born in Dec 1929 so that, for example could have been his brand new car when he was 18/19.

And nowadays I drive him round in my Taycan.
No wonder he struggles to grasp what say Android Auto is/does.

I find the whole human evolution fascinating (and quite scary going forward).

Remembering that not that long ago, your life would have basically been the same as say your Great great great great Grandparents.
Things didn't change for hundreds/thousands of years at a time (pic).

Now look what's happening just within one generation!

Another interesting aspect of all that is that our counterparts of 100 years ago wouldn't be phased to see the world today- they'd recognise most of it as development of what they were familiar with, possibly even be surprised that those things hadn't developed beyond recognition (and disappointed that human colonisation of space hasn't yet happened)- even the digital/virtual world was conceptualised and speculated about back then*. Yet their counterparts 100 years before them would have had their minds blown to see 100 years ahead.
(*I don't think that they'd be impressed to see that the most prominent aspect of the digital/IT age is the amount of unproductive time spent on our "devices" generating exponentially more digital noise.)

 

[gramorris]

Thanks for the digital noise @WuffvonTrips my Dad will appreciate this. It’s also allowed me to burn some unproductive time ?

 

[whitex]

Amazing to think how things have moved along in one generation.

My dad was born in Dec 1929 so that, for example could have been his brand new car when he was 18/19.

And nowadays I drive him round in my Taycan.
No wonder he struggles to grasp what say Android Auto is/does.

I find the whole human evolution fascinating (and quite scary going forward).

Remembering that not that long ago, your life would have basically been the same as say your Great great great great Grandparents.
Things didn't change for hundreds/thousands of years at a time (pic).

Now look what's happening just within one generation!

Given the distance between 0 and 1000, then much shorter distance from 1000 to 2000, it would imply that the internet was discovered in year 3000. The scale of the graph above is completely inconsistent, obviously chosen to shape the purple line to suit whatever thesis the author had in mind. Missing latest AI boom too.

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Given the distance between 0 and 1000, then much shorter distance from 1000 to 2000, it would imply that the internet was discovered in year 3000. The scale of the graph above is completely inconsistent, obviously chosen to shape the purple line to suit whatever thesis the author had in mind. Missing latest AI boom too.

Aside from their alignment being awry (nearly absent), most of those dates look to be one millennia millennium too recent for the appropriate charted events. (Though I don't think that invalidates the point being made by @Fish Fingers )

 

[whitex]

Aside from their alignment being awry (nearly absent), most of those dates look to be one millennia too recent for the appropriate charted events. (Though I don't think that invalidates the point being made by @Fish Fingers )

My point was that it is a horrible visual. I was not questioning that humans are evolving technologies at an exponential rate. It makes sense however, as technology spawns more technology, so no different than a pandemic, starts with patient zero, then grows exponentially.

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