American Customary (a.k.a Freedom) Units vs Imperial vs Metric

[ChezCheese:)]

A long time ago, say about 1979, I used to collect 8x10 movie stills. And I had a lucid dream where when I looked at the photograph, the movie would start from that point in the film. I remember it was a scene in To Have and to Have Not with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Thus I predicted watching movies on demand on tablets. And now it is as common as reading used to be.

 

[Chargeride]

A long time ago, say about 1979, I used to collect 8x10 movie stills. And I had a lucid dream where when I looked at the photograph, the movie would start from that point in the film. I remember it was a scene in To Have and to Have Not with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Thus I predicted watching movies on demand on tablets. And now it is as common as reading used to be.

Uncanny, but 8mmx10mm, is that for ants?

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Uncanny, but 8mmx10mm, is that for ants?

That's when you forgot naming the unit of measure

My brother-in-law had some funny ideas back in 1980s:
-- It could be a chip with the music stored. You would listen to it the way you listen to a Walkman today.
-- I think there will be a time when all computers in the world would be connected in a network, and the combined knowledge of the humankind would be available to anyone
A prophet?

My idea of that era was:
-- It is virtually impossible to listen to the Walkman music in the headphones in noisy places. Why not use a microphone to collect the ambient noise, reverse the phase and mix that signal with the music? The noise would be cancelled!
Did that make me the inventor of Active Noise Cancelling?

Well, the difference between having an idea and making it happen is huge.