Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Future of Technology

This 1995 Newsweek article dismisses the idea that the internet would fundamentally change the way we do things.

"Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities . . . Baloney[*] . . .The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."

*Baloney = nonsense

How have we gotten so far? Which of the articles' predictions have come true, or totally missed the mark? Going into the future, what do you predict?

Check out this TED talk for a glance at the direction we might be heading.

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