Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-4010415-20190201184055

To be honest, technology can improve within just a handful of years, especially once you've got the ball rolling and have gotten more advanced.

Atlas is more advanced than the real world. We're just now creating robots that automatically stabilize themselves when bumped and react to their environment with great accuracy, but they're mere blocks with four legs, like some a prototype for a robot dog. We can 3D-print materials to replace body parts, but our prosthetic technology isn't near as advanced as Atlas'.

They're further ahead than we are, know more than we do about how to create such technology, and merely have to build upon what they know, look for improvements to make, etc.

That's actually one thing that helps technology progress fairly quickly - when you already have the basis, all you need to do then is look for ways to improve it.

I'm 25 (will be 26 in several days, actually), and we've seen so many advancements in technology within, not only the first two decades of my life, but even just the first decade.


 * We've gone from fat projection TVs, to thin plasma and LCD TVs


 * We have touch screen technology now


 * Gone from VHS to DVD to Blu-ray already


 * From CD to MP3


 * Gigabyte to Terabyte


 * Laptops are no longer clunky, unwieldy monstrosities


 * We're able to store more data in smaller objects


 * Video game graphics alone have gone from blurry, jagged polygons to being so stunningly realistic that you could almost be fooled into thinking it's actually filmed. From Final Fantasy 7 and the original Spyro the Dragon on PS1, to the capabilities of Unreal Engine 4 and the graphics of games like Until Dawn.


 * We now have motion capture that's even capable of capturing facial movements and expressions