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Shoutout to the 1997 magazine at my dentist's office in Tacoma that promised we'd all have flying cars by 2020
I was sitting in the waiting room in Tacoma getting a filling done when I picked up a 1997 issue of some old tech mag. There was a whole spread predicting that by 2020 every family would own a personal flying car and traffic jams would be a thing of the past. It said the average commute would drop to 12 minutes because we'd all just zip over the highways. Meanwhile I sat there for 45 minutes past my appointment time because their scheduling software crashed twice. The funny part is the same article said computers would never fit in a pocket. I showed it to the hygienist and she laughed and said her phone does more than that whole magazine predicted. What old prediction did you stumble on somewhere random like that?
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paul33021d ago
Laughed way too hard at the scheduling software crashing twice, that part really ties the whole thing together. I had something like that happen at a Jiffy Lube in 2019 where the waiting room had a 1988 Popular Science saying we'd all be on moon vacations by now. My favorite part was the article claiming cordless phones were just a fad since nobody would want to carry a phone around with them. That hygienist nailed it though, her phone probably runs circles around every gadget that magazine dreamed up.
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