Predictions about the future are rarely true. We still don’t have the flying cars that science fiction told us we’d have soon. But predictions didn’t always imagine more than we actually got, sometimes they imagined less. For example nobody thought of the computing power that an average “smartphone” has today.
Today morning I found this picture, which is supposed to be from 1954 and shows how a “typical home computer could like like in 2004”:
It was posted by German Twitter user @ennomane, was retweeted and soon became part of the toptweets_de. When I wanted to blog it, I wanted to find out the identity of the original poster. Good! Research prevents from spreading false information! Because by now this person had found out that this is not actually a work from 1954 but a hoax. About.com Urban Legends explains the hoax. If you understand German, you could read ennomane’s post “Twitter, die Hoax-Maschine”.
By the way, if you’re generally interested in future predictions from the past, you should check out Paleo Future. The blogs deals with “a look into the future that never was”.
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