I am gobsmacked that someone would have seen, correctly, this far into the future in 1969. While the computer screens themselves take up too much room as expected for that year, the imagined services they are predicted to render are spot on. Amazing. [Tip o' de hat to Chris Abraham's Marketing Conversation™]
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16/10/2009 at 6:44 am Permalink
Another prediction -
The Internet, as it is rapidly transforming into a singular and all-encompassing source for all forms of media/communication, is simultaneously sewing it’s own seeds of self-destruction. The Internet will become far too complex and chaotic and will drive most serious users into smaller and smaller “walled-gardens” and subnets.
Economically, it will be impossible to meet the demand for isolated bandwidth and infrastructure, and the Internet (www), as you know it, will implode under its own weight. Fortunately, the combination of environmental collapse and global financial failure will coincide, and mankind will probably return to a comfortable mid-20th Century mode of existence.
Moral of this story: Enjoy this cyber-artificiality while you can cuz it jus ain’t gonna last…
17/11/2009 at 8:15 pm Permalink
So, they have the Internet on computers now?
If you did not get it that is Homer Simpson. What a long way we have come.