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- CingleMolt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29No, someone is just now getting around to reading a Playboy article from 8 years ago. I'd assume the photo pages finally got worn out... ;)
- ta10n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+232006....1994....carry the.... uhh.... 8?
- shertzerj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20From the former VP of Nintendo:
"I can even imagine these games becoming part of some national health program as a way to keep people mentally fit."
Brain Age? - JoshCBFL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18What, that California knows how to party?
- Figs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@Ta10n:
that'd be 12 years. But it's 2007 already :P - Kericr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Dance Dance Revolution is being used in more than one US school as a form of exercise. (It hurts to say that.)
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13http://duggmirror.com//tech_news/Some_Wacky_Technology_Predictions_from_1994/plain.html
- penmachine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16An iPod nano is pretty close to the size and weight of a credit card, if not the exact dimensions. I prefer the 1950 predictions about the year 2000.
- BritishGolgo13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Tupac also made some extremely accurate predictions in his song he wrote in '94.
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here’s Todd Rundgren:
"The delivery of music will have a great impact on the content of personal collections. Because music will be downloaded directly to your home, you won’t have to buy an entire album–just ten minutes of your favorite songs. And since there will be no packaging, it will cost you only about a buck. To eliminate the technical complications of spinning disks, we’ll store music on nonmechanical flash-memory cards about the size of credit cards." - omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Who knew Todd Rundgren provided the business model for iTunes?
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9That would be a pretty thick credit card.
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7R.I.P. Word Press blog. We never read thee.
- kevxross, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Eh.. since you apparently don't have a credit card, ask to see the one your dad used to buy your nano.
- jasper976, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5actual article
pg. 1 http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=341432992&size=o
pg. 2 http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=341433102&size=o&context=photostream
pg. 3 http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=341433222&size=o&context=photostream
pg. 4 http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=341433343&size=o&context=photostream - tutivlahos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Right now, if you want to go scuba diving in the Mediterranean, you have to take a plane halfway around the world. But in the future, you’ll simply call up that experience on a computer and monitor and it will seem so real, you’ll need a towel to dry off."
lol
Yeah, right! - kitta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm still waiting for my Jacuzzi seat on the five minute red eye flight to Tokyo.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/03/walletex-mods-its-flash-drive-for-mp3-playin-duties/
yea, that's about the length and height of a credit card. Maybe not width, but pretty dern' close - PDubNYC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5from the link:
"Derek K. Miller Says:
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 pm
An iPod nano is pretty close to the size and weight of a credit card, if not the exact dimensions. I prefer the 1950 predictions about the year 2000."
I hate when people feel that what they have to say is so valuable that they post the exact same thing on both the source page, and the digg/engadget/etc.. page. - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ah yes, the flying car.
No longer the siren down the street, but instead the flood of water that douses the smoldering remnants of what used to be your home. - juniorcosmonaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@dinoignacio
no it's not. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think he was replying to strictnein.
Of course this distinction requires you _read_ what people say first. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There's only the one wacky one, really, the first two are spot on.
- dbarefoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3D'oh, my server's done fallen over. Thanks for the mirroring et al, and thanks to Jasper976 for citing the Flickr photos, which you can see all on one page here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/tags/thetomorrowshow/
- Pxtl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Idunno about you, but I store my music on a device that actually is roughly the size and shape of a credit card:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/ipod_nano09072005144257.jpg - Tzeentch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://www.duggmirror.com didn't seem to get it :( (?)
- aggrazel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't wait to get my hover conversion done in 2015.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stuck in the present are we?
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As Penny Arcade said
"If you play like that(casual flick) you're a giant toolbox" - dinoignacio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it's interesting to note that the font used in the article title is a non-italic Verina of the spiderman/playstation 3 font.
- shredswithpiks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@merreborn
yes... because when I think about a jacuzzi seat on a five minute flight to tokyo, it's the jacuzzi seat that seems unrealistic... - Blue_Eon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like how it said that computers would be taking pictures of the Playboy models. In essence, they are, what with all the airbrushing and Photoshopping. Playboy is more like hentai than anything else nowadays.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yeah, and actually wasn't Best Buy was on its "All CDs must be $9.99 and no this isn't some crazy loss leader scheme, we swear!" kick? So, most songs where actually less than a dollar.
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's funny to read the article and see all the references to actors and big stars of the time period. People like Tom Cruise (he still has fans?) and Sean Connery were the bee's knees back in the day.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6well, in addition to that, it looks like Wii Sports is doing a great job of getting people more active physically, also
- CingleMolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn subtraction! Gets me every time!
- akinder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Playboy... is mocking you!"
- insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Some other predictions from 1994:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9D2qbmscE&mode=related&search= - wild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If they are looking 40 years ahead, and we are only a third of the way there (13 yrs), even Branson doesn't look so crack-pot.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In the present, your butlers and other servants are fallible humans who need rest and food, but in the future, all the toiling will be done by magnificent men made of steel!
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah it did.
- funkychikensays, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1anyone notice the Spiderman/PS3 text?
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=341433102&size=o&context=photostream - GamingNews, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wish I could read this one, but it seems like the digg hit squad whacked their server.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think they predicted that on the list.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was meaning about the album, sorry.
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer the Moms of 1984. Mee-yow!
- jimrooney, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow... Playboy HAS articles?!
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You obviously don't visit 4chan NEARLY enough
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of all the futuristic inventions out there, I'd kill for cars to have deflector dishes... Just a low-power force-field generator that would prevent stuff like rain, mud, and maybe even people from ever hitting your car. Would certainly be good for protecting your windshield from rocks flicked-up from trucks on the highway... and you'd never have to wash off bugs from your bumper again.
In the meantime, more cars and devices with bluetooth wouldn't hurt. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"Songs will cost about a dollar."
That's was a stretch. Back in 1994 they also cost "about" a dollar, you just couldn't download them over teh internets. -
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