I think this is so exciting

hertfordseasider

hertfordseasider

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Every now and again some form of advancement in technology really makes me gasp in wonder and the jet pack that is now being used by a paramedic in Cumbria is something that has really caught my imagination,

Technological advancement since I was a kid in the 60;s and 70's is incredible but because we live it we tend to take it for granted and don't notice it as much as we should, I mean when /I was a teenager digital watches were sci-fi. All, for me, this jet pack really is sci-fi, it's amazing and I wonder how long it will be before we see these sold commercially?

Amazing sci-fi jet pack
 
I was talking to a mate about this the other week. Certainly a fantastic way to get urgent care to patients in need of help in the mountain rescue setting👍

I can imagine they are pretty difficult to operate and quite risky to use, so can’t see them being safe for general use.
 
I would argue quite the opposite. Our technology has generally been quite stagnant in the last 50 years. Most changes (aside from perhaps telecommunications) have been evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

The Boeing 707 entered service in 1958, and if one pulled up at your gate (with a fresh paintjob) the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a much newer model such as a 777.

Commercial shipping has been using the same basic designs since the 1960s. Cars haven't really changed that much.
 
The Navy are using them as well. Saw a video a while back of them taking off from carrier deck and landing on back of smaller boat
 
GeminiPool said:
I would argue quite the opposite. Our technology has generally been quite stagnant in the last 50 years. Most changes (aside from perhaps telecommunications) have been evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

The Boeing 707 entered service in 1958, and if one pulled up at your gate (with a fresh paintjob) the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a much newer model such as a 777.

Commercial shipping has been using the same basic designs since the 1960s. Cars haven't really changed that much.
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Yes it's been stagnant not much has advanced from the state of the art 48k ZX Spectum I used to play manic miner on in 1982. The Talbot Horizon rot box is still a plague of today....car wings are still rusting completely and I wish the choke was obsolete. As for surgery if only they'd stop ripping knees open and find something like key hole surgery.
 
Shandypants said:
Yes it's been stagnant not much has advanced from the state of the art 48k ZX Spectum I used to play manic miner on in 1982. The Talbot Horizon rot box is still a plague of today....car wings are still rusting completely and I wish the choke was obsolete. As for surgery if only they'd stop ripping knees open and find something like key hole surgery.
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Of those examples, only key hole surgery is a revolutionary change, rather than evolutionary.

Computers might be faster, but the basic principle is the same. Computing power hit a major plateau about 15 years ago, and developments since have been about increasing efficiency and application through reduced architecture size.

The car is largely the same as it always was. Things like electronic fuel injection and fly-by-wire engine management computers are entirely evolutionary refinements. A time traveller from the 60s would still recognise a modern car and be able to drive one.

Next week, it will be 61 years since we put the first man into space. A mere eight years later we reached the moon. Where have we been since?
 
GeminiPool said:
Of those examples, only key hole surgery is a revolutionary change, rather than evolutionary.

Computers might be faster, but the basic principle is the same. Computing power hit a major plateau about 15 years ago, and developments since have been about increasing efficiency and application through reduced architecture size.

The car is largely the same as it always was. Things like electronic fuel injection and fly-by-wire engine management computers are entirely evolutionary refinements. A time traveller from the 60s would still recognise a modern car and be able to drive one.

Next week, it will be 61 years since we put the first man into space. A mere eight years later we reached the moon. Where have we been since?
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But would they be buying vast amounts of Plastic Padding, which made up the majority of the sills and lower bodywork of my cars back then?

I can't remember the last time I found rust on the bodywork of my cars.
 
GeminiPool said:
Of those examples, only key hole surgery is a revolutionary change, rather than evolutionary.

Computers might be faster, but the basic principle is the same. Computing power hit a major plateau about 15 years ago, and developments since have been about increasing efficiency and application through reduced architecture size.

The car is largely the same as it always was. Things like electronic fuel injection and fly-by-wire engine management computers are entirely evolutionary refinements. A time traveller from the 60s would still recognise a modern car and be able to drive one.

Next week, it will be 61 years since we put the first man into space. A mere eight years later we reached the moon. Where have we been since?
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Give over, you could play around with a car 20 years ago. Today they cannot be meddled with the DIYer, they are computer driven. Computers are so far advanced than 20 years ago...
 
3D printing is a revolutionary technology. The fact that now the average Joe can now buy their own for under 100 quid and start churning out a wide variety of models and toys is crazy.

Here's a few of the things I've recently printed.
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BigHandsOliverKahn said:
The problem with every technological advancement is that they start out with a positive purpose, like rescuing people on mountains, then an evil person recognises how they can be used to kill people. One day a suicide bomber will fly into a crowd using one of these.
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That's so true. I'm in a number of 3D printing Facebook groups and you wouldn't believe how many people post photos of the latest assault rifle they've just printed. Guns that actually fire real bullets. Unlicensed, unregistered, untraceable. No prizes for guessing which country they're all from.
 
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