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Old 11-25-2004, 10:24 PM   #1
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I could say how the Roman Catholic church's use of propaganda through stained glass was away ahead of it's time, but I'd rather not open that can of worms.

So I'll go ahead and say that the Augmentation Knowledge Workshop was way ahead of it's time. I saw the video clip of the "Mother of All Demos" and it's just amazing. I couldn't imagine programming that from scratch.
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Old 11-25-2004, 11:28 PM   #2
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I could say how the Roman Catholic church's use of propaganda through stained glass was away ahead of it's time, but I'd rather not open that can of worms.
Wow, that's actually really really deep....and so true. The Roman Catholic church used Relics the same way too.

I always thought MP3s where ahead of their time. Those babies where around ages ago, and they always where more convenient then your standard .wav file.
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Old 11-26-2004, 05:29 AM   #3
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Jurassic Park was ahead of its time. Compare those special effects to todays, there almost NO difference. And that was a whopping 10 years ago.
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Old 11-26-2004, 09:30 PM   #4
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I could say how the Roman Catholic church's use of propaganda through stained glass was away ahead of it's time, but I'd rather not open that can of worms.

I'd say heliocentrism was ahead of its time.

And the ED-209.

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Old 11-26-2004, 10:17 PM   #5
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The Helicopter....that was definately ahead of its time.
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Old 11-26-2004, 11:14 PM   #6
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Johnny 5 was ahead of his time.
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Old 11-26-2004, 11:17 PM   #7
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The Movie "Back to the Future" was ahead of its time.
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Old 11-26-2004, 11:25 PM   #8
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For me it was the first public announcement of cloning. I remember I was in the car with my mom listening to the radio. Then all of a sudden they broke the regular program to announce that a sheep had just been successfully cloned and I just thought that was so amazing and ahead of it's time. It seemed so futuristic and amazing to me. And at that time, they hadn't explained how they did it so in my head I was just imagining this machine that they put a sheep in and then they press a button and in the other pod a sheep copy just kind of materializes, lol. Of course the actual way isn't as exciting but I still think it's cool.
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