On the Lighter Side 2

Mike started this thread "idea" and its about time we get it going abit again. Here is a link to the original thread: On the Lighter SideSince what we discuss in these forums is of a serious nature and I would never intentionaly make light of the topics....There still is a joy of the Lord and I believe God has given us the gift of laughter. I find myself taking myself to seriously sometimes, so with that in mind....Humor us!Only let it be with the thought of "what is edifying".-Mike Balog

Photo Moment: In 1954, scientists guess what a home computer will look like in 2004 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine: Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.hahhaah I thought this was hilarious :smart:

LOL. What's the steering wheel for? Had they invented racing games back then? LOLhee hee what about the printer.. looks like you could make a newspaper with that baby. Could make the SermonIndex newsletter a reality. :-P

Looks like you could go into orbit with that thing.hehe I think I need one of those things to run SI properly! :-P

Here is a test: what is wrong with this picture?Does anyone else see the inconsistency?

quote: "We are in dark times, but the morning is to come. A Joyous future of repentance. What a joyous time it will be!God is the one who rises up nations and tears them down. God has the power to rise up this dead nation to life and godliness once more. Let us all pray in faith and rejoice in hope through the Spirit. Above all putting on love the bond of perfection."I also am standing in expectation of what God is going to do.I did not take the picture. Actually it was Jeff aka J_A_Olver, who showed it to me.

----Study: PCs make kids dumberStudents who use computers frequently at school perform worse than their peers at maths and reading, a study claims.Those using computers several times a week performed "sizably and statistically significantly worse" than those who used them less often.Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann of the CESifo economic research organisation in Munich base their conclusions on an analysis of test performance and background data from the 2000 PISA study. This study involved tens of thousands of students in 31 countries, including the UK, organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).----

I found this funny at first but really its pretty sad and very true.

Here is a funny correction to the image that this thread started off with:---Popular Mechanics: Don't Blame UsNEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2004--Those co-workers who constantly clutter your inbox with e-mail forwards aren't the only ones who have fallen for a recent Internet hoax involving a fictitious 1954 POPULAR MECHANICS article. It appears two savvy software CEOs have also been taken in by the Photoshop handiwork of a Danish software designer.A manipulated photo of a mock submarine console (above), passed off as a 1950s projection of the 2004 home computer, was used by Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote speech yesterday in San Francisco to illustrate how rapidly technology improves. And this past fall, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor posted the image on his blog before later posting a correction.Even we scratched our heads for a minute after first seeing the graphic. But after a closer look, everyone agreed that something wasn't quite right. More research revealed, much to our relief, that this was one prediction we did not make.