Technology Marches On/Quotes

"Help our school buy a computer!"

—Sign seen in Freaks and Geeks set c.1980

Well known, but very dated, PSA

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—http://www.adrr.com/lingua/alien.htm

"Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. (deadly silence) The ... record player? (more silence) It was before CDs. Plastic hadn't been invented yet."

—Arthur's Mr. Ratburn running afoul of this trope

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

—Popular Mechanics, 1949

They probably redesigned the whole Sickbay, too! I know Engineers, they love to change things!

—Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek the Motion Picture