@chris_home: Quebec may not have outlawed alcohol,... but they did outlaw movies until the 1960s.

@chris_home: Yeah, but the difference between alcohol and drugs is... alcohol is and always has been a standard feature in American life, with it's own culture that is and was relatable to everyone. Banning alcohol was like banning apple pie or swimming.

Truly obscure recordings Shazam has identified for me:

@jdale: Really? I always try to use the self-checkout. Since I know how to use it, and it's no trouble at all, I figure I should do it myself. Also when dealing with stores or restaurants or libraries I prefer to have as little contact with human staff as possible. No pressure, you know? No unfriendly attitudes to…

Actually, considering that computer power has been growing for at the same rate since around the 1960s, wouldn't we have assumed in 2000 that by 2010 cells would be more powerful then the super-PCs of the day?

Digital displays, or digital-esque displays, have been around for a shockingly longtime. There's a film from 1933, Footlight Parade, that begins with a long screen made of lights on some building scrolling a message.

Imagine if this design had been invented by the Wrights, or. Instead of the Wrights. What crazy planes we'd see flying outside.

You know, I agree with Ballmer. Digital downloading is the future - or the present, for some of us.

@Saboth: Because those bandwith caps can't possibly stay. Computers are always getting more and more powerful, so in a few years, 250 GB will seem ridiculously, when people are used to managing TBs of data.

@nothingreal: Didn't they put that rubber thing on the opposite end of the bristles in toothbrushes? I remember seeing that in a newspot form around '99 about IDEO.

@Pier Brito: And the houses of the future from the 50s seem pretty tame? round swivell cabinets? Oooh!

Sell them to the West!

@bobbobato - giz's other gay dude:

Posh posh, those cities are nothing. Here in Montreal, not only are there ethnic but also linguistic patchworks- and many of the ethnicities themselves have significant english and French splits.

@LeRon Blastoff Garnett: Actually, no. Outside heat apparently has no affect on the temperature inside. Ever feel up a fridge or freezer door? They tend to be boiling hot in some places.

@twilight-arc: Oui, mais le mot correcte est 'francophile', pas 'francofile'.

What we see in the video doesn't seem very practical. But when the technology advances so that the clothes are thicker and takes much less time to "dress", then we'll have something useful.

@LetsTryThisAgain: Poor poor you. Your notifications area must be ridiculous now. Do take a pic for us.

@DNABio: So how many masterpieces have you produced?

This doesn't shock me. Computers are Really, really, really powerful now, so powerful that less powerful devices can handle fairly complex tasks. I mean, the iPad is about as powerful as a 2,000 $ PC from 2000, and it's considered high tech.