digg

Facebook Connect Join Digg About

The home computer in 1999. The 1966 prediction watch!

video.google.com — All the predictions came true, but what they didn't anticipate was miniaturization.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 10, 2007

Digg DudeWhat is Digg?

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted and voted on by the community. Take the Tour to learn more.

285 Comments

show profanity settings
expand all
  • GeoffChang, on 10/10/2007, -2/+653The husband doesn't seem too happy about the wife's transactions.
  • wontstoptalking, on 10/10/2007, -3/+413LOL!

    "What the wife buys at the buying consol, the husband will pay for at the paying consol"!!!

    Typical 1966.
  • ch4os1337, on 10/10/2007, -4/+258Man.. look how far we have come in 8 years...
  • Lane, on 10/10/2007, -3/+228The girlfriend has to get her shopping approved? Great idea 1966!
  • chembro84, on 10/10/2007, -2/+218Not too far off (actually completely accurate as to what we had available in 1999)
  • Vodka2389, on 10/10/2007, -0/+212Some things never change.
  • kedohmen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+199The future is gonna be AWESOME!!!
  • s14sh3r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+191Hi, I'm with the Communal Service Agency. I'm here to check your circuits.
  • BARTZ13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+127For as old as the film is. Its predictions were rational and fairly accurate. Compared to others I've seen.
  • ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+113I still want my flying car.
  • apersaud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+102Thank God for windowed user interfaces. I couldn't have handled having 10 monitors for 10 different tasks on one desk.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+91I can't wait for that electronic correspondence machine they speak of. I'm going to buy one in 1999.
  • TheSaladMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+89Yea, now she just pays herself, either way it still comes out of your account. :D
  • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+81One interesting thing is that they thought you'd need different monitors and each monitor was dedicated. Obviously, we can just use different Windows, within an all-encompassing GUI.
  • u8myfoood, on 10/10/2007, -4/+81in 1999, i think majority of us had CRTs, not those 6" thick LCDs that you see in the video.
  • homersaysdoh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+79Am I the only one who was expecting the narrator to say something like "And on his other computer dad can download and print vast amounts of pornography so he can gratify him self while his wife purchases overpriced ***** on her computer".....?
  • Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+74Just off on the way in which these services are available. Scan a department store rack? Why?! Didn't they know about pictures in the 60's??
  • wilhoitm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+59Where are all the Ads next to the items on the console? ;-)
  • kedohmen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+55A woman with her own bank account in 1966!?!?! What are you a dirty pinko Commie?!?!
  • fairviewjim, on 10/10/2007, -5/+55correction--1967.
  • ophello, on 10/10/2007, -0/+48wow. dead on.

    it would be cool to have a retro lcd like that, with a fatty receiver/computer beneath.
  • jonnyeh, on 10/10/2007, -2/+50They know, they just don't care.
  • MJG2007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42Man....that 1967 guy better hope he never gets any malware with constant popups or he'll be buried in monitors.
  • shlolz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+373 words. Al. Gor. Ithm.
  • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35Get a girlfriend with her own job and bank account. Then she can approve, and pay for, her own shopping!

    Otherwise, it'll just be taken for granted (which is a human trait, not a female one).
  • redfox2600, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30It just a modify microfilm projector.
  • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -6/+35Sounds like a night at the bar, 2007.

    You know I still love ya ladies, even if you don't know how expensive you really are.
  • Thyris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29I think they naturally assumed motion picture would be more 'futuristic'. non-moving pictures are so boring (flash vs jpg for example?).
    What's funny is the video is still static, cause it's just a pile of clothes. heh.
  • MuffinPatrol, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29no.
  • D3koy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26eerie, isn't it?
  • kedohmen, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28Suck on that Womens Lib!
  • DontSayFanboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25your husband put a computer in the kitchen for you to use?
  • CthulhuDawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24I think those were actually projectors of some sort.
  • maduin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Blue screen effects have been around since the 50's.
  • mtrip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23And jetpacks. What's up with the jetpacks, they're like seven years behind schedule by now!
  • blackfeathers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23the predictions of these technologies are fairly accurate considering that was 1967. since then there were obviously paradigm shifts and changes in how we do things but the basic idea is still there: baby monitors, flatter monitor displays, multimedia communications and control centers, online shopping, online banking, et al. at one's desk.
  • logicbus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23I want 10 monitors that all run the Matrix screen saver.
  • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Cereal ports. Al-gore-ithms. Hooray for technology!
  • buu2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Yea. And if the majority of us owned a backyard pool and screen watching security monitors, we'd be bloody rich enough to afford the newest tech on the block: a thinnish monitor.
  • cjh24, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22i like the idea of redundent circuitry, something that is only just being developed.
    but instead of a "switch-board" array, we will have "silicon-chips" (lol) which detect errors (such as a busted transistor) and re-route the current through an analogous circuit.
  • nismoskys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20dead on! apply directly to the forehead.
  • MCDupree, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Flying car? People can barely drive as it is, and you want them to FLY?
  • giid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Yes, hello Fran, I'd like to place a call on port 80 to 72.14.207.99.
  • ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Today I was thinking about my computer from 1974. (well, it really belonged to the college) Keyboard or paper tape input, 300 baud (via phone receiver cradle) to a mainframe where it timeshared. No video, roll feed paper display ("echo off" was a handy Basic command to save paper). Basic, FORTRAN or Assembly language only. Usually Basic, FORTRAN was easier on punched cards. Engineering and science majors were allowed so many minutes a quarter, subject to the timeshare priorities of the instructors. I had a TA job in the Physics department which allowed unlimited access to a terminal after hours. The extra time allowed me to ace my Comp Sci classes. Graphics where a challenge, ASCII only baby! We did manage porn. Sort of.
  • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20searching for warez...
  • VdgX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17So in 1967's future all text has to be handwritten? I can't read half of internet comments as it is. Add horrible handwriting to that equation and *Shudders*
  • techmaster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17LOL they actually thought there would be switchboard operators actually routing packets. Good thing Cisco came along, or the internet would REALLY suck right now!
  • NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18I'm still working on step 1: Get a girlfriend.
  • vervalsing, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19There's some good old fashioned family sexism for you.
  • Fetching more discussions...
    Show 51 - 100 of 288 discussions

  • Add a Comment

    Login or register to comment!
    Or, sign-in super fast with your Facebook account ...


© Digg Inc. 2009 — Content created and posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain | Terms of Use Updated | Privacy Policy
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.