Just thought I would throw in a couple of links here to the mid-90s AT&T campaign tagged “You Will.” They predicted a whole bunch of stuff – WWAN, EZ-Pass, GPS, video on demand, videoconferencing, and so on and so forth – real heady stuff in an era where most people had no idea what the Internet was about.
Thing is, it pretty much all came true.
I mean, I have my iPhone which does all sorts of insane stuff. I have my Kindle where I get my magazines, I have the EZ-Pass on my car for the tolls, I’ve remotely controlled other people’s desktops from 2500 miles away (something I first contemplated in 1997 when wondering if I could telecommute for tech support with the notional NeXTSTEP Mac OS), I’ve done video chat cross-country, and I actually have sent a fax (well, an email) from the beach, more than once. And video on demand is the only way we see movies these days.
We really do live in the future. I don’t think I appreciate that enough.