Every so often, someone pops up with something from the past that seems to imply knowledge of the present. There’s this pic of a young Steve Jobs wearing something that looks an awful lot like an Apple Watch.
Or these paintings from 1860, 1918, and 1937, all showing people staring at their iPhones.
But this one follows a different tack, more an eerie prediction of future tech, in a magazine blurb on the future of computing. Pretty solid predictions.
[H/T, Robert Macmillan]
Gerrold nailed it, having been part of the lineage of authors who said similar things. Trouble is, last time I checked, his mobile device of choice was a Kindle tablet. Because walled garden or something.
The last paragraph is really good. Most of it is, some not so much. But overall, pretty good.
Wait a minute, hadn’t the Blackerry been out for a year when Gerald wrote this?