Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Predicting the Future (in 1969)

What amazes about this video (via) is how much they get absolutely right. It's a little corny, of course; it's hard to believe that this is the country that a year earlier produced 2001: A Space Odyssey, but maybe they were operating with a smaller budget that Kubrick's. The surprising thing that they didn't get right is the lack of a keyboard. Still, think of all the technical prognosticators who came along in the 80s when the PC was launched. All they ever really talked about was already figured out here.

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