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Sunday, January 5, 2003

The Future: 10 Years Past, Still Geek

jw93cgweditorial_sml.jpg The Future Is Here, or, was here, about 10 years ago. One of my pals came across this old letter I wrote to Computer Graphics World magazine back in December of 1992 and I've dug it out for giggles, just in case anybody had any doubts about what I geek I was, or am. Yes, I used to be deep into Amiga computers before fully switching to Mac. The funny thing is, and I realize that predicting the future of computing ten years out is quite the challenge, Mr. Stock was SO far off on his specifics -- yeah, real-time video in/out with a 200 meg hard drive and 8 megs of RAM! :^) Of course, I've been forced to teach Photoshop on such a platform. Yikes. To his credit, his vague items (speech, wireless) were fairly accurate. In retrospect, I feel good about my claims, even though I never got a commission check from Amiga and they were so horribly mis-managed that they pretty much died. What are your predictions for computer technology 10 years from now?


posted by jeremy at 09:57 AM | On This Day: 2001


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I am guessing that in ten years computers will be wireless modular devices that connect to various data banks at home or the office, interacting wirelessly with keyboards and mice and large hard drives of movies/music/photos, etc. and controlling tivo type TV entertainment as well as next gen consoles and the like. I know it sounds like the bust appliance market, but just look at the newton, way ahead of its time, same with the current crop of tablet and the earlier internet appliances.

posted by: Anthony Ianniciello on January 8, 2003 8:53 PM