Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Technological predictions from the past

Some accurate, some not:

http://www.money.co.uk/misc/technological-prophecies.htm

The article misses here and there.

It mentions Vannevar Bush and the Internet but not H. G. Wells’ prediction of the Universal Encyclopedia, which was sort of Google, made some decades before Bush.

It also refers to a woman in the background in an old movie, holding what appears to be a cell phone. That one has been debunked.

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