I saw the below video clip on John Cook's Venture Blog (Seattle) and it made me laugh for the whole afternoon.
You have to watch the whole 1981 news clip from San Francisco TV Station KRON. The idea of reading news on a home computer was so unique that they interviewed a person and below his name put the tag line "Owns Home Computer". Funny to think that not that long ago owning a computer would make you news-worthy.
I wonder what utterly cutting edge things we use today will seem so ridiculously silly and outdated in 25 years. Facebook? Twitter? Will our kids look back at us and say "oh, please! How sad!" when looking at our technology, media, communications, and fashion in the year 2009.
Have A Great Day.
thom
2 comments:
I saw this the other day. I was fascinated by it. What really struck me is that the newspapers had 28 years to prepare for the tech today and yet they still don't seem to get it.
I also like the old man who owned his own home computer. The fact that he was older was interesting to me. He probably never saw the Internet boom of the '90's or the tech of today.
Also, newspapers were once .20 cents??!! Whoa!
I saw this the other day. I was fascinated by it. What really struck me is that the newspapers had 28 years to prepare for the tech today and yet they still don't seem to get it.
I also like the old man who owned his own home computer. The fact that he was older was interesting to me. He probably never saw the Internet boom of the '90's or the tech of today.
Also, newspapers were once .20 cents??!! Whoa!
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