Computers in 1999… as predicted in 1966!
Boing Boing posted about a prediction made in 1966 regarding the future of computing in 1999. The documentary was sponsored by the Philco-Ford Corporation, and it does a pretty accurate job at predicting the future of computing. For example, they predict that shopping and bill paying will be able to be done via computer.
Boing Boing points out that the video failed to predict we’d still be using keyboards… I argue that keyboards provide a much faster method of text entry than any other input method to date. Try writing a URL in a browser window using a Tablet PC, and you’ll understand how painfully slow handwriting is. However, this doesn’t mean that all input methods have been invented already; for example, I’d like to see a computer “listen” to my internal “voice,” so that the computer just “knows” what I want. That may mark the end of the keyboard, but who knows.
Let’s wait and see what computers are like in 2040.
P.S: The documentary also predicts the kitchen of the future!
Well, I’d say they hit it on the ball really…except for the tinge of chauvenism, chauvenism…and, uh, chauvenism.
rant/
Why is the guy shaking his head when he saw the bill? His wife spending money again?
Most of my guy friends spend more money on shiny new technology than girls on jewelry and shoes.
Women aren’t the only money suckers. Guys are too. For buying those huge video screens to check up on wife’s spending habit. Got nothing better to do?
/rant – the panda will now return to her regular jovial self