This is Flashback Friday!
Here's a photo with Fred, Carol, and Lori taken on our class trip in 1977. What ever happened to Marty Wiggins?
BTW / Try to imagine how you would have told your 18 year old self to smile because the picture would be shared on something called Facebook when you were 55! LOL
I was intrigued with the time-traveling aspects of being able to give advice to one's younger self.
"Okay, young Dennis you should take a lot, lot more pictures. Make sure you always take a camera with you, everywhere, so you can take hundreds and hundreds of photographs. Not just pictures of big events but also of everyday things.
I know hundreds sounds like a lot. Film and developing is a little expensive and eventually cameras won't need film ... but ...
Well, because by the time you get old it will be very easy to share them with all the people you know now and also many of the people you will meet over your lifetime.
Um .. that's because in the future cameras will have little screens where you see the picture and then you can copy it to any computer.
Yeah, by then ... you know like the Atari, well, everyone will have one or more but they will do more than let you play games. They are smaller so you can carry them around and fold them up, TV part and all. They will get all sorts of information and stuff from the Internet.
Oh, ... wait. Forgot that wasn't around. The Internet like when every single computer that everybody has will be able to be connect together always, even without wires. So, businesses and people will all run applications like web sites and Facebook and tell each other what they're doing right at the time. And you will be able to Google, I mean ... search for things. Almost anything.
Um, Facebook? It's like, well, it is like your own newspaper where everyone else can see what you type and the pictures you put and the things you like. There will be millions and millions of people from all over the world who join it.
It doesn't really matter where they are because people can be online anytime. Even with their phones.
Oh wait. Telephones will get really small, like a deck of cards, and fit in your pocket and they have a screen just like a television. All computers have really thin little screens too and even TV's get really big but thin.
Anyway, about phones. They'll not just be phones. In fact, most people will do other stuff rather than calling on them. On the screen you will be able to do stuff just like you can do on a computer. No not just words and pictures. You can watch video, but then it will not be on tape, but saved online. Well, computers and the Internet have all sorts of places to save stuff. More stuff than you can imagine. I don't really know where exactly. But like even music will just play from somewhere, like, automatically when you push a button. Well I mean press the button on the screen. People can put things from their phone back to the Internet too.
Oh, and those phones will take most pictures and record video too. But if you take pictures now on paper, they will be able to be scanned someday. I mean you can put them into a machine that will make them so you can save them on the all that extra space on the Internet. After that, a picture can be shown on the screens of phones or computers anywhere.
Okay, never mind all the complicated stuff, just take lots of pictures. Okay?"