@th3rdsergeevich @ZySoua I don't think zombies are a plausible real-world apocalypse scenario.
Orwellian dystopia, on the other hand, is already here, and only getting worse. Nuclear war seems very likely, too.
@pixelherodev @ZySoua I was talking mostly about models cultivated by pop culture, literature and movie / gaming industry. And the pessimistic ones seems to be more alluring and profitable.
@th3rdsergeevich @ZySoua Good point.
Worse, the ideas portrayed as *good* and *heroic* today are honestly horrifying.
@pixelherodev @th3rdsergeevich @ZySoua we are all becoming what doctors call "scroll zombies"
Zombies have no regards to the real world, and soon, we wont too
@allinone0 @th3rdsergeevich @ZySoua Uhuh, sure. Surrrrre. That's rough, buddy.
@ZySoua Utterly amusing to see that the author could imagine something like a phone in your pocket* but didn't conceive of the idea of a different ring tone.
*: When I was a kid I long scoffed at the idea of the Star Trek transponders ever becoming reality, because, duh, no electric lead, so how is that gonna work!? Yeah, little did I know.
@carcinopithecus @shuro @ZySoua
Highly likely that the 'Tring tring' was for the purpose of being recognisable. I was struck by the sheer savvy of coming up with a "phone in your pocket" idea in the first place.
@ZySoua joke's on you, prescient cartoonist of yesteryear: we have the technology to silence the infernal ringing.
@MightyOwlbear @ZySoua not to mention texting. But it's a funny cartoon all the same, imagining the future is hard. People often just extend what they perceive to be modern in their time
@ZySoua
There's this famous video in french which imagines portable TVs back in 1947. And it really looks like smartphones today. It's funny if you can understand it a bit.
@ZySoua fairly accurate…
@ZySoua Of course, only men would possess such a device.
@ZySoua This seems to be the reprint version of the comic from 1923, but the original was published in 1919 with the title "The Pocket Telephone: When it will ring" https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WH0933&pos=124
@ZySoua This is way more accurate than it has any right to be considering it’s age.
@ZySoua i'm looking at this and trying to imagine how chill a life would be where this is a reductio ad absurdum 😭
@ZySoua Missed opportunity: sharing 103 year old memes.
@ZySoua I was kneejerk like "what, did this moron forget that in the future we can mute our electronics"
@ZySoua now i want to read all the other comics in which this prophet predicts the future!
@ZySoua wait ... They ring?
@ZySoua when you're holding the ghoul baby
@ZySoua I miss that kind of silly view of the future. All we have nowadays is either an Orwellian dystopia, a zombie apocalypse or a nuclear war.