1st
April
2008
Great Quote of the Day - Computing Predictions from 1967
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Directly from the great site, Modern Mechanix here’s the second paragraph from an Atlantic Monthly article from 1967. Keep in mind that this is what desktop computers looked like in 1967.
“The modern computer is more than a sophisticated indexing or adding machine, or a miniaturized library; it is the keystone for a new communications medium whose capacities and implications we are only beginning to realize. In the foreseeable future, computer systems will be tied together by television, satellites, and lasers, and we will move large quantities of information over vast distances in imperceptible units of time.”
This prediction was pretty much spot on… even the imperceptible units of time.
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