2006/10/03

Popular Mechanics ca 1954

Whenever anyone tries to sell you or convince you of the idea of what the future might look like, keep the below image in mind. It's from Popular Mechanics, supposed experts on technology.

Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'home computer' could look like in the year 2004.  However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home.  Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems.  With teletype interface and the Fortran language the computer will be easy to use.

In case the image caption is a little hard to read, here it is in full.

Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'home computer' could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientists progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language the computer will be easy to use.

Awesome. I can't wait.

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