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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Incorrect Predictions in Old PC Magazines
Message-ID: <1349@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 89 13:08:16 GMT
References: <1574@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <1574@helios.ee.lbl.gov> forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I was recently going through some old PC magazines from
>1984 and I was struck by the number of predictions made by
>columnists that turned out to be 100% wrong.

The most striking prediction in a trade rag I've ever seen was in
a JOKE article in Datamation about 1964.  (At that time, the IBM 7094
was THE premium comp center machine.  PCs? 15 years in the future.)
Anyway, the author was making the most outrageous predictions he could
think of for a 20-year horizon.  The one that stuck in my mind was:

"In 20 years, we'll have a computer the size of a postage stamp;  the
problem will be the 6" diameter input/output cable."

I guess brainstorming works.  You can only be truly creative when you're
playing "try and top this."

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