This just blew my mind. Back in 1987 Apple made a video about a future computer that would have a touchscreen with a computerise assistant you could talk to. They were off in their prediction by only 18 days. Wow. More »
Apple’s original iPod came out 10 years ago this month. It will likely die tomorrow (at least its Classic form). Yet the original iPod begat the iPhone and iOS. It changed computing. Almost nobody realised that at the time. More »
Internet shopping, online banking, self-diagnosing circuits, individual computers; this was surprisingly advanced stuff for 1966. More »
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What will the year 2019 look like? It may not be too far away, but Tron, Aliens and Blade Runner’s concept designer, Syd Mead, has gazed into his crystal ball in this short video here. [Fastco]
HG Wells prophesied of a “new order” where newspapers would be “dead” and instead we’d “ring up N.E.W.S. on our telephones” and “listen in to a summary of what has happened in the last 2-3 hours”. How right he was. More »
