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God
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8

So how many of these things are (relatively) a reality today?

2/4/2010 2:43:32 PM

JTMONEYNCSU
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anytime

2/4/2010 2:43:51 PM

Spontaneous
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Hindsight is 20/20. Anyone can make vague predictions.

2/4/2010 2:45:47 PM

wdprice3
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old as shit

2/4/2010 2:48:22 PM

thegoodlife3
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I can't wait to be able to tuck my baby in from a phone booth

2/4/2010 2:49:40 PM

Jeepin4x4
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i've touched plenty of babies in a phonebooth

2/4/2010 2:50:41 PM

LunaK
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^

2/4/2010 2:51:24 PM

God
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^^^^ Well, yeah it's from 1993

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM. Reason : ]

2/4/2010 2:51:25 PM

Jeepin4x4
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jklol

2/4/2010 2:52:49 PM

wdprice3
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this has been posted before..

2/4/2010 2:54:40 PM

God
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Yeah like 17 years ago

2/4/2010 2:57:19 PM

dharney
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the company bringing it to me now is verizon cause i switched over on monday


take THAT AT&T!!

2/4/2010 3:02:37 PM

dharney
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the GPS navigation was pretty on target


the automatic toll thing is true too but way off.



plus like 90% of the stuff they predicted i can do with my cell phone now.


phone booths are long gone.



and they forgot to mention free abortions

2/4/2010 3:11:53 PM

Agent 0
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"the automatic toll thing is true too but way off. "


i mean besides the physical motion involved, that's basically E-Z Pass

2/4/2010 3:15:00 PM

BigHitSunday
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phone booths are still good for snitching, drug dealing, soliciting, and adultery

as long as there are motels there will be phone booths

2/4/2010 3:15:30 PM

JeepMan311
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=694TX2lQ7Uo&feature=related

2/4/2010 3:17:39 PM

Wraith
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Back to the Future 2 predicted that we'd still be using phone booths in 2015. I'm surprised that cell phones weren't predicted more as it seems like a pretty simple idea to have a portable phone that is small enough to fit in your pocket.

2/4/2010 4:39:35 PM

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"old as shit"


haha durr

2/4/2010 4:41:49 PM

BettrOffDead
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its sad that the only thing we havent done is fucking put medical records on some form of portable/transferrable electronic storage

2/4/2010 5:07:36 PM

qntmfred
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^ i dunno, that sounds pretty risky. if there's a hard drive failure with your medical records on it, you'd probably die instantly.

2/4/2010 5:11:35 PM

Smath74
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the great thing is that I remember those ads and remember being excited for stuff like that to get here!

2/4/2010 5:11:49 PM

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"its sad that the only thing we havent done is fucking put medical records on some form of portable/transferrable electronic storage"

2/4/2010 5:13:39 PM

Kurtis636
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Lack of agreement on standardized medical information formatting is a major problem and contributes to the rising cost of healthcare.

Personally I don't think you'd want to carry around your medical info. That's not the kind of thing you want other people getting a hold of.

2/4/2010 5:18:03 PM

mambagrl
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whats a phone booth? don't think those have arrived yet. Sounds interesting.

Guy on the beach had an ipad.

2/4/2010 5:20:41 PM

Spontaneous
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Yeah, information asymmetry can be a bitch.

2/4/2010 5:20:53 PM

BettrOffDead
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portable/transferrable

doesnt necessarily have to be like a chip on a card, just encrypted ass shit that can be shared from doctor to doctor

2/4/2010 5:21:26 PM

Nerdchick
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they did better than these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

it doesn't specify a year but I'm guessing it's supposed to be 1979 or so

2/4/2010 5:30:47 PM

lafta
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i tucked my baby in a phone booth
and ran away

2/4/2010 5:42:11 PM

Smath74
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^^it got the urban sprawl dead on.

Ha and it looks like it inspired "The Jetsons" cartoon directly with the car-pod, moving sidewalks, etc.

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 5:47 PM. Reason : ]

2/4/2010 5:44:11 PM

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^^^i can't wait to get my jet car

2/4/2010 5:46:38 PM

Nerdchick
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near the end the dad programs a route into the car, and it drives him to his location. I was like cool, that's kinda like GPS! but then he used a punch card to do it ...

computers are the only thing that changed as wildly as they predicted everything to change, and they have the computer being exactly the same.

2/4/2010 5:57:50 PM

zep
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^^^^^, it says 1958

2/4/2010 6:25:23 PM

elduderino
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Quote :
"it doesn't specify a year but I'm guessing it's supposed to be 1979 or so"


"An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA"

^how'd I miss that

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 6:30:48 PM

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