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Cyberpunk 2077. Video game with Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba basically as themselves, and just the whole scope of the game. And the graphics.

this even blows my mind from a 2020 nerd perspective.

i might get shade for it, but LLMs.

I think people generally tend to underestimate technology levels from 50 to 100 years ago. For the most part, the biggest innovation of the last hundred years has been miniaturization rather than any one particular technological advancement. And frankly, I think that’s the answer to the question; People from the 70s wouldn’t necessarily be in awe of one particular technology, but they’d certainly be in awe of how much we’ve been able to fit into a tiny ass amount of space.

Honestly, I think they’d be more disappointed than excited. We have not been to Mars, we don’t have flying cars, and we don’t have computers that can think for themselves despite what LLM providers would have you think. Our 2001 looked nothing like that which was imagined.

I recently bought a JBL Trio everything in one box music thing.

It has the ability in almost real time, there's a bit of buffering, to unmix any music I stream to it from my phone. You can dial out vocals, the guitar, drums, etc.

Being able to separate the tracks in audio, let alone do it in basically real time, would have seemed like black magic in the 70s. Hell, it seems like black magic now.

1980's nerd here.

I fly camera drones, sometimes for money. I can buy a DJI mini 3 for under $400 US, and it is capable of taking perfectly steady video and pictures even in a pretty good wind. It will also stay in one spot in midair for close to half an hour before the battery runs down.

And a DJI mini 3 is a cheap beginner camera drone.

I think the notion of a pocket-sized device that gives you instant access to virtually all the knowledge humanity has ever produced is hard to beat.

Could you imagine showing a modern game console to someone from the 70s?

When I was a child my parents worried that microwave ovens would make their own food toxic, and told me TV would ruin my eyes. Now they sleep with a wireless super computer plugged in to a world wide-network, with a camera and lidar pointed at themselves around the clock.

Being able to look up and verify just about any fact in seconds via a magical device that fits in your pocket and only needs to be charged once a day, then never using it to do that.

Well maybe not crazier than their wildest imaginations since there's Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.
but certainly matching it.

This however, I think anyone from the 1970s would fail to describe what they're looking at first try..

Having a portable device that can play any song you want still blows my mind. I had a Walkman as a kid and thought that was great but being able to listen to anything at the touch of a button is so next level