How Come: 80's was more "High Tech"

[MatrixmaN]

How come the 80's was more "High Tech" than the 90's or even '00?

It seems like we've downgraded ourselves. We went from Max Headroom, DeLorians, Virtual Reality and Digital Speedometers to Analog Speedometers, Reality TV, PT Cruizers and Max Payne. Totally taking ourselves out of technological advancement from cool stuff, to advancing hardly anything but computers themselves and going back into a technological slump of classic-crap.

Think of how much better holography, virtual reality and other stuff could be right now if we kept the technological mindset that the 80's provided. It almost seems like the 80's had better technology on a visual level tho archiac in actual technological standards of today.

I want the 80's back.

[Blazer06]

I WANT TO BE IN THE 80's so i dont have to miss out on all the cool stuff.

BTW, the delorean was my second fav. car of all time and still is


Blaze

[tony_j15]

Well, the stuff was new during the 80's, so it became the popular thing. Why we got away from it is beyond me.

[vass0922]

how in the world is max payne old!?!?!

The 80's were lame we had to live through a period where all cars were pretty much boring and lame (how many people brag about driving a 1980 something car?) There's few IMO

You couldn't of had the matrix in the 80's as the technology didn't exist.

Movies like Toy Story or Final Fantasy couldn't exist...

Digital Speedometers aren't that big of a deal
Where are you getting virtual reality was in the 80's!?!?
Oh yeah.. they had TRON in the 80's.. now there's virtual reality

what was there that we don't have now?!

Are you even old enough to have lived through the 80's and remember them!??!

OH YEAH I want Debbie Gibson and DEVO back!! ... uh no
Sorry.. disagree

[Warthog]

lol wth does Max Payne (a video game character for the uninformed) have to do with the 80s?

Anyway...80s stereo was about non existant IMO...car stereo was except for crappy tape units with equally crappy speakers. Audio quality was unheard of.

I suppose you mean the 80s was full of "cool ideas" that COULD have advanced into something bigger. The DeLorean was a cool car but many wouldn't have heard of it if it wasn't for the Back To The Future series.

IMAX movies are ages beyond the 3D movies of my childhood - red and blue lense "3d glasses"...ooh that's fun!*yack* I suppose that's your "holograph" stuff of today.

I think if you could take someone from the 80's right now and put them in this era, they wouldn't agree with you at all. Imagine the concept of EVERYONE being able to have their very own personal computer that can do things that were unimaginable in the 80s. Lets not even get into the internet. Try telling someone from the 80s about the internet.

Video/pc games - compare Halo and Half Life 2 to Pong and Pacman.
Nothing else needs to be said.

What about GPS? Being able to pinpoint your EXACT location ANYwhere on the planet with a device that costs a few hundred dollars.

A plasma television that is 2" thick - sci-fi prop in the 80s.

Digital vs. Analog speedometers - that's a style thing.

The technological leap of the 90s decade is absolutely incredible. Nothing can compare.

Warthog

[Cyclone2]

Bring back Devo! pullease

[ben-the-slacker]

and Transformers!

[RedFury]

Yeah, I want my Mr.Game and Watch with it's black and grey screen over my cellphone with games/graphics that rival the SNES!

The problem is, the technology being created today isn't touted as much as the technology to come when we were in the 80's. We got Satellite TV, Microwaves, and the Smurfs! Big Screen TV's like small movie theaters in your own home! And Gremlins! Both the creatures and the car! I played Pong in the 80's. My kids play Super Smash Bros. Melee at the ages of 4 and 7. The fact that they can use that many buttons shows the difference between then and now...heck, what was a button?!

Hmmm, and someone mentioned cars. Mustangs and Camero's with 4 cylinders anyone? The death of the Muscle car? Far as I'm concerned, the auto industry has finally listened and started creating cars that people WANT to drive, not the boxy cookie cutter cars pushed into the garages of the masses. Where was the technological development in that area? The Delorean? I don't think making a car out of stainless steel qualify's as a technological development. Sure, it was different-weird even. Not a tech breakthru. The McClaren F1 is a tech breakthru, the Enzo Ferrari is a tech breakthru. Delorean? uh...I'll pass.

[Prexaspes]

1987 Buick Grand National

You can keep the rest.

[RedFury]

Okay, can I pull my foot out of my mouth now Prex?

Okay, besides that!

Oh, and that was the LATE 80's...practically the 90's

Mid 80's were the worst for cars. I personally won't buy anything between 1978-1986