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* The [=SeeTee=] stories by JackWilliamson have rocketships that have to search for their targets using advanced thermal and photographic equipment. Of course that was because they were written in the 1940's, when radar was a military secret.
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*** While getting prepared for the mission, Dax makes appreciative comments about the "classic 23rd century style" of the equipment.
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*** Particularly in the early days of electronic computing, there was a serious lack of understanding of what kinds of tasks are computationally easy and what kinds are computationally hard. It was thought that converting between speech and internal data representation in the system, machine vision, and walking would be fairly simple problems to solve while symbolic algebra and other advanced mathematics would be difficult, because that's the way it is for humans. The reverse is true, because humans are the result of several hundred million years of R&D in doing the former tasks while we've had almost no R&D for the later. It isn't that making sense of the visual world, speaking and understanding speech, and locomotion are easy problems, we've just got very, ''very'' optimized wetware for those tasks, while our ability to perform higher mathematics is more or less just a happenstance by-product of abilities that were useful to staying alive in a neolithic culture.
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**** Actually, the difficult part is compiling the data (as it requires the positions, velocities, and masses of hundreds of billions of objects). Once that's done, producing the view as seen from any arbitrary point and time inside the region covered, even projecting it into the future, is a straightforward (although computationally extremely intensive) operation.
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*** While building codes have changed to make frefabs more than possible in most places, a home that's fundamentally inextensible (it's really hard to add an extension to a geodesic dome, even during the design phase) and has loads of unusable space (almost everything you might want to put into a room has a square footprint, which makes for a lot of wasted space against curved walls) is a hard sell at best.
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* Thought it might not be as obvious as some of the above example, ''MassEffect'' is an intentional version of this trope although the zeerust it invokes is not 1940s or 1950s zeerust, but rather 1970s and 1980s zeerust - [[WordOfGod according to the developers]], anyhow.
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** The computers look pretty 80s too, although they're at least better than those in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In the novelization, one of the Regula 1 scientists complains that a portable computer doesn't have enough memory for his "fifty meg"[[hottip:*:It's not specified whether he means mega''bits'' or mega''bytes'']] game.
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** The computers look pretty 80s too, although they're at least better than those in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In the novelization, one of the Regula 1 scientists complains that a portable computer doesn't have enough memory for his "fifty meg"[[hottip:*:It's meg"[[note]]It's not specified whether he means mega''bits'' or mega''bytes'']] mega''bytes''[[/note]] game.
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*** Gibson also points out a ''very'' subtle example of Zeerust: He uses the analogy "like a television tuned to a dead station" to describe the sky early on in the book. When he wrote it, he was imagining an overcast, storm-wracked sky that resembled analog static. A couple of decades later, and most televisions were displaying a blank screen of pure primary blue when they couldn't get a station. The analogy remained vivid, even though its meaning reversed itself entirely.
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* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004) is chock-a-block full of Zeerust -- not surprising, given that that was the point of the whole exercise. There is a 1930's submersible with a radio-imager that can send pictures back to the AirborneAircraftCarrier, giant bipedal robots wreck New York, and the hero's plane can go ''underwater''. The entire movie is pretty much RuleOfCool. The film appears to be set in 1939 (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is still in theaters).
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* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004) is chock-a-block full of Zeerust -- not surprising, given that that was the point of the whole exercise. There is a 1930's submersible with a radio-imager that can send pictures back to the AirborneAircraftCarrier, giant bipedal robots wreck New York, and the hero's plane can go ''underwater''. The entire movie is pretty much RuleOfCool. The RuleOfCool.
** This filmappears is has to be set in take place entirely between 25 August 1939 (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' and 1 September 1939 because ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is still in theaters).theaters (released 25 August 1939), but Germany hasn't yet invaded Poland (1 September 1939).
** This film
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* The film adaptation of ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', directed by Francois Truffaut in 1966, features zeerust aplenty, notably a propeller-powered monorail commuter train (which was an actual French prototype at the time, but was never developed), antique-looking vehicles, interactive wall-mounted television sets and payphones with a weird design. Explained in that this was one of the first films where the director deliberately went for a SchizoTech look. Also, the jetpacks at the end.
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* The film adaptation of ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', directed by Francois Truffaut in 1966, features zeerust aplenty, notably a propeller-powered monorail commuter train (which was an actual French prototype at the time, but was never developed), antique-looking vehicles, interactive wall-mounted television sets (though wall-mounted TVs actually would be a thing), and payphones with a weird design. Explained in that this was one of the first films where the director deliberately went for a SchizoTech look. Also, the jetpacks at the end.
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*** Possibly the abbreviation was re-invented as Video ''Crystal'' Recorder once data-crystals became the standard?
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* Invoked with many of Gru's gadgets and vehicles in ''Film/DespicableMe'', in order to emphasize how behind the times he is. His car, for instance, looks like a [[TechnologyMarchesOn "futuristic"]] tank taken straight out of sci-fi from TheFifties. In contrast, Vector's tech is much more up-to-date for 2010 standards.
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* The Aston Martin [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/89_Lagonda.JPG Lagonda]] and [[http://www.astonmartins.com/v8/images/am398_bulldog.jpg Bulldog]]. Pretty hideous and dated but, to give them some credit, unlike today's Astons they aren't aping the sixties JamesBond [=DB5=] in any way.
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Do we really need a \"to be fair\" statement for Starship Troopers? Science fiction movies had been using flat panel screens for at least 30 years when this movie came out. I may not have been common in homes yet, but it was far from a new concept.
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* The film ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' suffered from this more than the book. In the film version, CRT monitors were prominent despite flat-panel monitors already having been invented and in production by the time the movie was made. To be fair, flat screens had been around awhile, but were expensive, and the directors had no way of knowing [=CRTs=] would fall out of favor so rapidly.
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** There are some things in ''Futurama'' that are outdated without irony. "Kidnappster" (a pun on Napster.com) is a good one. By the time "I Dated a Robot" (the episode featuring Kidnappster) aired, Napster itself was on its last legs, having endured a lawsuit from the government over copyright violations (it would shut its doors later that year). The nature of Internet file-sharing was already starting to evolve beyond Napster by this point.
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* In the original 'TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}' ships computers start at one ton for the most basic, 2 program model. If you pay extra you can have an optical backup device. Later versions make it clearer that "tons" are neither a weight nor mass measurement for ship sizes, but a volume measurement, that of liquid hydrogen. This means your 1-ton ship's computer has a volume of a bit over fourteen cubic meters ... a cube almost on a side. Presumably this includes all the control wiring and interface hardware (keyboards, screens, servo motors to actually control the ship, etc.) and not just the computer proper, but still.
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There are cellphoned in BGC. Sylia uses a fountain-pen-shaped one in one episode. Also, Soviet dictatorship wasn\'t military.
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* The original ''BubblegumCrisis'', released in 1987 and set in 2032, is similar: clothes and hairstyles are ''very'' 1980s; car-mounted telephones exist, but not hand-held ones, meaning characters make calls from phone boxes with video screens, and [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Soviet Union and East Germany still exist.]] However it is worth noting that even though they completely missed the Internet revolution, many of the mecha designs, especially the hard suits, still look very futuristic.
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* The original ''BubblegumCrisis'', released in 1987 and set in 2032, is similar: clothes and hairstyles are ''very'' 1980s; car-mounted telephones exist, car-phones are common, but not the hand-held ones, ones are rare, meaning characters make calls from phone boxes with video screens, and [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Soviet Union and East Germany still exist.]] exist,]] at least in the very first OVA. However it is worth noting that even though they completely missed the Internet revolution, many of the mecha designs, especially the hard suits, still look very futuristic.
** Touchscreens are neat for the mobile devices that are meant to be used on-the-go, and in situations where input options are limited, but for a serious data-intensive work still ''nothing'' beats the good, old keyboard. In fact, the people who need to work with a large amount of data, such as programmers, typists and so on, tend to see even the mouse and GUI as useless bells and whistles, as using them requires taking the hands off keyboard, losing time and inducing fatigue. It helps that the keyboard input exists for 150 years now, and is a mature, established technology, devoid of its kids' diseases, while touchscreen interfaces are still in the gee-whiz stage, with the people still trying to figure out how to do them right.
*** Rhysling turned out to be a genius singer-songwriter, and would've made a fortune in our days. Unfortunately, the story was written good ten years before the concept of a ''rock star''. In TheForties there weren't a snowball chance in hell that a washed out blind ship's mechanic could make it big in the entertainment business. Not to say that Rhysling wasn't ''famous'' — he was. He simply haven't had a penny out of his fame, and stayed a street busker to the end, though it might have do with his personal preferences.
** Though long outdated as a main storage, tape is still the tech of choice for the ''backups'' and ''archives'', when the access speed is of no concern and the amounts of data to store are enormous. It's still cheapest form of storage byte-for-byte among all other technologies.
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* Edward Bellamy's "LookingBackward", written in 1887, portrays the U.S. in the year 2000 as a "socialist utopia"--actually a top-down, Soviet-style military dictatorship. Bellamy's descriptions of credit cards and the Internet, however, were surprisingly spot-on, if primitive.
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* Edward Bellamy's "LookingBackward", written in 1887, portrays the U.S. in the year 2000 as a "socialist utopia"--actually a top-down, Soviet-style top-down military dictatorship. Bellamy's descriptions of credit cards and the Internet, however, were surprisingly spot-on, if primitive.
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**It should be noted, however, that Bellamy failed to imagine even radio, let alone television. The main entertainment in the year 2000 was sitting around in your living room listening to music piped in over telephone wires. While this may suggest the infrastructure of the internet, the absence of any wireless technology (e.g., radio) is striking. Also, the automatic retractable awnings over the sidewalks is highlighted as an impressive technology which was no doubt feasible when the book was written.
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** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' really made things interesting, considering it is a modern ''Trek'' with [[TheAestheticsOfTechnology modern designs]] yet is supposed to be set ''before'' the Original Series. It was a challenge to make their hand-held communicators bigger than modern cell phones yet smaller than the clunky boxes they used. The designers even said that in 40 years, the modern ''Trek'' will look like Zeerust (really, it won't take that long). Plotwise, things haven't changed much either: one of the stock patterns of threat in ''ST: TOS'' is "Step 1: take away the communicators". Similarly, by 2005 or so, the stock pattern in all contemporary media is "Step 1: [[CanYouHearMeNow take away the cell phone]]". Most writers then and now haven't worked out how to create dire circumstance while having reliable mobile communication available (this is why ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' didn't get cellphones until the last season).
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* ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon}}'' features an unusually late period of retro-futurism. The 80s/90s Cyberpunk action movie setting is replete with props that are then-modern technology with [=LEDs=] and neon lights stuck on, bogus computer TechnoBabble, and seemingly post-processing added lasers. The cutscenes are meta-fictional by way of low resolution pixel art as was standard in video games made in that era.
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* George O. Smith's ''Venus Equilateral'' stories (1942-1945) feature a 3-mile-long, 1-mile-diameter space-communications station stuffed with vacuum tubes. The problem of communicating with ships in flight is solved with complicated cams. The engineer-heroes work out problems by sketching them out on tablecloths and using their slide rules.
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* George O. Smith's ''Venus Equilateral'' stories (1942-1945) feature a 3-mile-long, 1-mile-diameter -long, -diameter space-communications station stuffed with vacuum tubes. The problem of communicating with ships in flight is solved with complicated cams. The engineer-heroes work out problems by sketching them out on tablecloths and using their slide rules.
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** ''My Cyberian Rhapsody'' had a man rent a cybersex machine with everything being put on a 5 1/4 inch floppy disc.
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* In the original 'TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}' ships computers start at one ton for the most basic, 2 program model. If you pay extra you can have an optical backup device. Later versions make it clearer that "tons" are neither a weight nor mass measurement for ship sizes, but a volume measurement, that of liquid hydrogen. This means your 1-ton ship's computer has a volume of a bit over fourteen cubic meters ... a cube almost 8 feet on a side. Presumably this includes all the control wiring and interface hardware (keyboards, screens, servo motors to actually control the ship, etc.) and not just the computer proper, but still.
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* In the original 'TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}' ships computers start at one ton for the most basic, 2 program model. If you pay extra you can have an optical backup device. Later versions make it clearer that "tons" are neither a weight nor mass measurement for ship sizes, but a volume measurement, that of liquid hydrogen. This means your 1-ton ship's computer has a volume of a bit over fourteen cubic meters ... a cube almost 8 feet almost on a side. Presumably this includes all the control wiring and interface hardware (keyboards, screens, servo motors to actually control the ship, etc.) and not just the computer proper, but still.
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* Pan Am's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldport_%28Pan_Am%29 Worldport]] terminal at JFK Airport looks like any other "futuristic" structure designed and built in the 1960s. The structure's architecture is famous for its large 4 acre flying saucer shaped roof that suspends over the terminal. After Pan Am collapsed in 1991, the terminal was acquired by Delta Airlines and is still in use today but is planned on being demolished in 2015 after the planned expansion of a neighboring terminal is completed.
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* Pan Am's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldport_%28Pan_Am%29 Worldport]] terminal at JFK Airport looks like any other "futuristic" structure designed and built in the 1960s. The structure's architecture is famous for its large 4 acre large flying saucer shaped roof that suspends over the terminal. After Pan Am collapsed in 1991, the terminal was acquired by Delta Airlines and is still in use today but is planned on being demolished in 2015 after the planned expansion of a neighboring terminal is completed.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landmark_Hotel_and_Casino The Landmark Hotel & Casino]] in Las Vegas was a resort built in the 1960s with a "futuristic" architecture inspired by the Seattle Space Needle. When the resort opened in 1969; The 356 foot tower was one of the tallest structures in the city. The resort operated until 1990 and was closed due to economic issues and because it could not keep up with newer and larger resorts that were dwarfing the tower. The Landmark was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SiNeuuQXmM demolished]] in 1995.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landmark_Hotel_and_Casino The Landmark Hotel & Casino]] in Las Vegas was a resort built in the 1960s with a "futuristic" architecture inspired by the Seattle Space Needle. When the resort opened in 1969; The 356 foot The tower was one of the tallest structures in the city. The resort operated until 1990 and was closed due to economic issues and because it could not keep up with newer and larger resorts that were dwarfing the tower. The Landmark was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SiNeuuQXmM demolished]] in 1995.
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* So, how about that [[RetCon 20XX]], eh? Remember when that mad scientist ([[BobAndGeorge who looked like Albert Einstein]]) stole a bunch of robots from his coworker scientist ([[BobAndGeorge who looked like Santa Claus]]) to take over the world? Aren't you glad the Santa-scientist refitted his personal assistant robot to become a [[VideoGame/MegaMan super fighting robot]] who went on to stop that madman? Several times? Don't look now, I hear some scientist in the Soviet Union is threatening a similar attack...
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** Oddly enough, the subsequent remakes managed to be even more Zeerusty than the original. The 1980s version tried to depict a more futuristic world where technology was more integrated into modern life, with the result being that the technology's greater presence makes the show's datedness even more obvious and jarring to modern viewers. Even though they got the part about more people using computers right, the computers look totally anachronistic; the futuristic architecture and flying cars they use are often hideously impractical; and all the robots that don't look identical to humans look like a cross between old Kenner toys and outdated computer parts. The latest anime from the early '00s is more self aware about this and deliberately goes with an over-the-top retro-futuristic style similar to that used in the earlier Tezuka-inspired film ''Metropolis''. In most ways this is an improvement, but sadly, it sacrifices most of the down to Earth charm that arguably helped make the original such a huge hit.
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* ''Film/BladeRunner'', which was made in 1982, thinks that in the year 2019 we'll have flying cars, skies so choked with pollution that you never see the sun, off-world colonies, implantable memories and androids so lifelike that we'll need detailed personality tests to distinguish them from the real thing.
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