... "The Matrix" (1999), sort of predicted the popularity of internet, social media, smart phones, tablets etc, in our very official digital age we live in today?
Whether its by addressing computers, such topics as interactions, accessing certain stuff etc.
And do you think the film succeeded here?
I agree to an extent. Internet was off and running by '99. Social media was already taking shape with AOL messenger and chat rooms. Cellphones were already well established.
It wouldn't really be going out on a limb to make those predictions, as it was already in motion.
What do you mean by OFF? It was very much ON. When you turn something ON, it 'runs', as you put it. If you turn it OFF, it stops running. How come you don't know this basic logic about things? Also, the internet isn't 'running', it's a network of computers, most of which, at least in 1999, stayed in place, without moving anywhere. They also didn't have legs, so they couldn't run anyway.
In any case, the main point is good, though. If you watch the 'BBS Documentary' (I think it's free now), you can realize even those old geezers mention how things don't just suddenly appear, internet wasn't just in existence one morning, it developed slowly, like all things like this.
There are ALWAYS predecessors, and when the technology level is cultivated enough and the time is right, someone will make an innovation that makes that tech leap to the next level. That has been happening since the telegrams, let alone teletype (10 cents if you know what this means without looking it up).
Even BBSes weren't completely a new thing, it was basically just logical extension of what already existed, but just made 'computerized'. It's like CBBS being the first BBS. The name means 'Computerized BBS'. Of course 'BBS' means 'Bulletin Board System'. So it's nothing new per se - people had been sending ASCII-style pictures and text messages in teletype way before that, and of course HAM radio operators sent even DATA for the early computers back and forth.
BBSes were, in effect, just a logical concentration, conglomeration and joining of these pre-existing systems, technologies and ideas into a way to do it all on computers. The internet basically evolved from there.
I am aware of how Arpanet was developed, so I guess that needs a bit of clarification, and isn't entirely accurate, but you get my point; most things, like the internet, are built upon pre-existing ideas, systems and things that are then just cultivated and developed to the next logical tech-evolutionary point or plane.
So... you've never heard the phrase "off and running" before?🤣
It's the same as saying "up and running." Off used the way that when you're starting something, like an event, one could say "and we're off!"
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