What if Technology Had Stalled in the 80s?: GeekBits Podcast Episode 7

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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Welcome
01:22 - We got stuck in 1982
01:54 - Podcasting in 1982?
03:30 - ISDN found a reason to exist!
06:20 - More powerful 80s computers
08:15 - Driving adoption of computers
09:50 - Amazon on a Commodore 64
13:10 - Bloated modern websites
17:06 - Quantum-Link was Thin Computing!
21:15 - We would have MRI and CAT scan!
23:28 - Nerd Alert - David's computer watch
24:50 - No smartphones
25:39 - Cars with 80s tech!
31:30 - Lots of separate devices
33:05 - Streaming Netflix 80s style
34:12 - Star Trek got it wrong and programming
44:00 - 80s Space Travel
48:40 - Would life be all that different?
52:30 - Signing off

We asked ourselves "What if technology had stalled in the 80s?" "How would the world be different today?" Well we took this thought experiment and used it for the basis of The Geekbits Podcast episode 7!

That's right David's shower thought of the month is the idea that technology stalled in 1982 and wasn't able to advance any further. This is some hypothetical issue where the processors couldn't be made to go any faster. That's right everyone in the 2020s would still be using 8 bit computers!

We asked ourselves a bunch of questions:
Would we have the Internet?
What about websites like eBay, and Amazon?
What about online shopping in general?
How would cars have advanced?
Would we have MRIs and CAT scans?
What about the space program?
What about the smartphone?

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