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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.
Back in 1909, a fanciful New York Times journalist decided to spice things up by pretending to describe a futuristic 2009 “centennial celebration”. His portrait of future New York City is surprisingly eco-conscious and pedestrian-friendly.
Stephen Hawking, brilliant astrophysicist and nefarious alien doomsday prophet, is again atop his soapbox preaching the end of humanity should we not board spaceships and colonise the solar system and beyond.
Joining Blockbuster on that depressing 2011 deathwatch are two companies we’ve been known to cover here at Gizmodo: T-Mobile and RadioShack. Is anything good going to happen next year?
15 years ago Bill Gates published The Road Ahead, a book in which he laid out his vision for the future of personal computing. The Atlantic took a look at how his predictions and how they held up.
Stan Shih, founder of Acer, has made a bold prediction with a cowardly timeline: that US computer brands aren’t competitive enough to stick it out another 20 years. That’d work out just great for, let’s see… oh, right, Stan Shih!
