For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.
The first weekend of Pokemon Go was the closest we ever got to world peace.
and then it was used to train the war machine.
I would argue that Rainman (1988) being a lot of people’s first introduction to autism propped up the autistic savant trope
Hackers (1995) did not reflect reality at all, and entirely made up a look, sound and feel of hacker culture for the film. Tech press largely panned it as rediculous, unrealistic and innaccurate, but hacker culture actually morphed into something close to what was depicted in that film because it’s honestly way cooler and way better than what the actual hacker culture was at the time
Others have already pointed out really good examples like Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle which spawned a lot of food safety laws, or Wargames (1983) basically prompting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Edit to add: I also remembered another very influenctial author at the turn of the century was Henry George who wrote a now under-discussed book called Progress and Poverty which is widely credited for triggering the beginning of the Progressive Era
In a similar vein, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species basically kicked off the entire field of biology with the scientific theory of evolution
Bugs Bunny changed so much of the world you have no idea. Changed the diet of rabbits because he was making fun of a celebrity. Changed an obscure biblical character into a name for an idiot.
Dr Seuss changed the English language almost as much as Shakespeare.
Also, Shakespeare.
BioShock Infinite accidentally, and indirectly, caused a massive advancement in the animation industry.
Kung Fu Panda changed China’s movie industry.
Bugs Bunny took over the soviet Union after lenins death and all that followed. Lets not forget that episode “bugs bunny and the soviet Genosits!” Bugs Bunny wearing a Stalin Costume
Marx, Kant, all of Leibniz’ writings. Leibniz needs to be honored more for how ahead of his time he was. Computing algorythms in the 17th century. Mathematics on universe? The last Polymath…
Leibniz was for sure a bonafide genius, but my god was he a weird, foppish little Christian dandy
Oooh yess and i love him! He is litterly like me (i read his letters and letters about him)
Marx is probably the single most important writer in all of history, and it’s honestly unlikely that he will ever be supplanted. The dude gave us the science for understanding how human societies function and how to resolve structural problems. What could be more important than that?
The first code of laws of civilization?
Except that historical materialism shows that civilizations and laws change based modes and relationships of production. So sure, the first set of laws were important, but Marxism allows us to analyze and optimally shape those laws. To me, that is a more important development.
No, yeah, you’re right. I see your point and you’re right :)
The 95 Thesen by Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation. That’s an impact that cannot be understated.
It didnt start it. That has long been brewing. Lollards, waldensians, hussites, fracitellis, all came prior.
Matrin Luthers trials, were just the cherry ontop, the last drop. Supported by the duke of Saxony in the absolute disgusting mess of authority that was the HRE and the vast spread of his translation of the bible due to the printing press was what differed him from Wickliff, why he failed and Luther “succeeded”. These are the things that made the reformation spread like a fire. Luther never wanted to split the church, he was still very pro church and nobility authority over the peasents (unlike Thomas Münzer). But the Rulers wanted more power and the people were done with the clerical order and read how they arent following what jesus was preaching.
The Borgias, Pope Alexander VI was on another level of corrupt and would have probably whiped his ass with the papal robes.
Sorry its early my ADHD meds are kicking in as im typing this and history is my autistic hyperfocus :)
Haha, absolutely! That is why I said “sparked”. The Reformatory forces had been brewing for ages! It’s a super interesting period of history!!!
Thanks for the meds reminder and the history lesson! 💚
Haha no problem
A Grand Day Out saved the Wensleydale cheese company when they were on the brink of bankruptcy.
“Not even Wendsleydale?”
PPAP because now everytime I have a pen, and I have apple, I say apple pen… and when I have a pen, and I have pineapple, its pineapple pen. Penpineappleapplepen
Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species.
both good and bad, that one. Lots of good for understanding life on earth (us included), lots of bad for how humans started treating skin color.
Origin of species wasn’t published until 1859…
A good couple hundred years after the Atlantic slave trade started. People were already using skin color as a basis for atrocities. The first formal racial classification of people was done in 1684.
Goethe’s book “The sorrows of young Werther” caused several suicides of people who emulated the protagonist.
The communicator in Star Trek was an important inspiration for the development of the cell phone and the creators stated that one of their motifs for developing a hand-held telephone was to have something like the Star Trek communicator.
The works of Aristotle; there is probably no more influential set of works that will ever exist.
The translation of his works, into “modern” European languages (Latin, French etc…) can be credibly argued was the beginning of the Renaissance; which lead to the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment.
The Islamic Golden Age also has roots in Aristotle’s work, his and other ancient scholars writings were translated into Arabic; enriching the thought of the many great philosophers of Arabic world. Which (among other things) gave us the basis for modern mathematics.
Silent Spring
Carson’s most direct legacy in the environmental movement was the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States, and related efforts to ban or limit its use throughout the world. The 1967 formation of the Environmental Defense Fund was the first major milestone in the campaign against DDT. The organization brought lawsuits against the government to “establish a citizen’s right to a clean environment”, and the arguments against DDT largely mirrored Carson’s. By 1972, the Environmental Defense Fund and other activist groups had succeeded in securing a phase-out of DDT use in the United States, except in emergency cases.
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was a hugely influential…
wait is that Maven?? (famous) maven???
I Will NOT REVEAL MY SECRETS TO YOU!!! GRRR YOU ARE MY ENEMY
I almost got away with it to if it weren’t for my intense fame.
Final Destination caused an entire generation of drivers to abjectly refuse to take up any space within a quarter mile behind a log truck.
Honestly I got a lot more of that from IdiotsInCars on reddit
That youtube channel is a great way to learn what stupid mistakes drivers commonly make, to know what to look for/avoid.
For anybody wanting to watch the movie so they understand this meme, don’t actually watch Final Destination, because the log scene is not in there. I know this because I watched the whole movie waiting to see it, and never saw it.
The log scene is in Final Destination 2.
That series is so irritating. Basically kids haunted by the ghost of Rube Goldberg.
Final Destination 2 also had the best final kill of the entire franchise. Most of the movie is not great, but the open and close are two of my favorite moments in a cinema.
I’ve never seen the Final Destination movies, but the one with the tanning bed scene came out when I was in high school.
…Interestingly enough, that was right around when the cliquey “cool” girls stopped going to tanning salons in the winter.
I still do this for this exact reason.
Refuse to? Buddy, I’m hunting for them. I don’t have to do this anymore and my family gets a big payout. Sign me up.
Might I recommend any given highway in and around Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.
On my way!
Bad news, the scene was CGI’d because logs don’t bounce like that.
Ya just gotta ruin my dreams, eh? /s
I’ve heard that bricks are much more effective IRL.
I swear this is just an online meme and people are larping about it being a genuine fear.
Never seen the movies but I 100% would change lanes to avoid driving behind a log truck. I do it for other trucks, too, if they’re carrying what look like barely-strapped-down loads.
I never even considered that this wouldn’t be a common fear lol.
I can tell you it’s true for at least one person.
First thing that came to mind is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle which led to, among other things, the creation of the FDA.
That wasn’t his goal though; he’s quoted as saying: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
I know, the whole book is about how America is a giant con to get immigrants to come over so they can be exploited for profit then left to die with they can no longer work 12 hour shifts, meanwhile they get to watch their kids get poisoned by companies, ran over by commercial trucks and robbed of any dignity or chance they deserve.
Instead people read it and were like ‘omg some filthy polacks finger could be in my sausage, that’s disgusting!’
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Damn, shrinkflation hitting everything
There was a minor news story about a decade ago about Tyson getting caught employing minors on the meat packing floor.
Star Trek introduced a lot of the first concepts of what we currently use as every day technology, it had a first hand tangible impact on the lives of pretty much every human alive today.
Hey I love star trek as much as the next guy but this is a bit of an overstatement.
They didn’t invent anything, it’s just a portrayal of what the future might look like.
Some of it is very obvious and not much of a prediction: like a hand held device with sensors - but they did get the form factor and use cases completely wrong.
Most of it is obviously remains fictional, like transporters.
Sorry if you want to say trek predicted the future you have to ignore the majority of the show which they got completely wrong.
Nowhere did I say they invented anything nor predicted the future. Learn some reading comprehension.
Oh sorry, it’s just that you seemed to be saying that star trek changed the world by introducing the first concepts of tech we used today.
It did. Do you not understand the difference between invention and first concept? I never gave them credit for everything, but it’s indisputable that the cell phone was inspired directly by Star Trek communicators, that is according to the inventor of the first cell phone, as well as the concept of multi-funtion interface devices which is exactly what you’re likely holding in your hand at this very moment which is also a cell phone.
Feel free to die on that hill, but what I’m saying is an objective fact.
LOL.
There’s some “objective facts” in that guys memoirs aparently:
As Martin Cooper reveals in his new memoir Cutting the Cord: The Creator of the Cell Phone Speaks Out, cellular technology was actually being developed in the late ’50s and through the ’60s. By the time Star Trek debuted in 1966, Cooper and his team at Motorola were practically in the home stretch; in 1973, they debuted the first-ever handheld mobile telephone, the brick-like DynaTAC. Cooper himself made the first cell phone call on October 17, 1973—to his chief competitor at AT&T, with whom he’d been in a bit of a cellular space race, as revealed in the book
The article goes on to explain coopers role in the star trek myth.
Very obviously, handheld devices were inevitable and predictable in the 60s when ToS was written. That was my original point.
See, it’s this kind of shit, this is exactly why people can’t fucking stand contrarians. Jesus fucking christ, get a life.
Ok let’s recap:
- you trot out something you learned from some shatner edutainment you saw, as fact
- assertion does not withstand a moment’s critical thought
- you double down with some ad hominem and some “objective facts”
- facts are proven false by your own purported source
- you triple down with more ad hominem, because of course you’re not the problem.
This pattern of interaction is common among a particular type of person. I’ll give you a tip for free: it’s not smart people.
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Geordi is also why I became an engineer.
Hell yeah.
