i liked it back when the future was the future. when every piece of novel technology came with lots of flashing lights and ambient humming. when flying cars jetted through the sky, the latest synth pop hit blaring from its casette deck. yeah, that's right. flying cars with casette decks. holy shit, the future is awesome. remember the transformers soundwave and blaster? (individual articles on both of them. wikipedia continues to impress) somehow technology had evolved to the point where the production of an entire race of giant, sentient robots was a feasible option, yet cassettes remained the recording technology of choice. maybe it had vintage charm. or maybe the transformers had been subject to crippling budget cutbacks. either way, as the picture above clearly shows, those guys knew how to throw a good ol' fashioned cybertron block party. when they weren't trying to kill each other.
but all of this is but glazing on the main event: computers!
yes, that's right for the paltry sum of $3495 you, yes you, could be the proud owner of 10MB of hard drive POWER. just think of all the binary pieces you'd be able to store in 10MB of POWER. 10 MILLION pieces of binary! you'd be the envy of the entire neighbourhood. but what's that, computers are only going to get more powerful? but it's 1967, surely technology has already gone as far as it can. or has it?
