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Future Predictions in 1976
Technology
I recently found an old sheet of paper from 1976. There was writing on it. As I read it, I realized it contained my predictions about future technology. Here is what I predicted:
“I envision a future where people will carry an impossibly small device in their pocket that is a computer, telephone, encyclopedia, atlas, food replicator, and camera all in one. People will use it to take excellent quality photographs, and send the photographs to each other through satellite communication. Then oddly, the young people in that day will purposely degrade the photographs so they look like they were taken by the cheap film cartridge cameras of today. And people in their 50s won’t understand why.” — Mark Starlin 1976
I’m still waiting for the food replicator.
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