Thread: AT&T Predicts the future in 1993

It's really not too difficult for large companies like AT&T to predict 7 years ahead. Their R&D departments are well ahead of what is available in the market. I started working for Kodak in '82 as the disc film equipment was making it's debut their shops. Rumor was going around that Kodak Park leaders were saying that 35mm film was dead and we all thought they were crazy. Little did we know that Mr. Sutton, a Kodak R&D scientist invented digital photography. Where is 35mm film now? It would really be interesting to see what some of these companies have in their R&D departments. I got to see some of Kodak's and was amazed. Some of the stuff I saw still isn't being sold to the public. Now if AT&T predicted my ex wife and the problems I had with her I would say they predicted the future! LOL

Because of those predictions I can't sit on the beach in peace without work "can ya just hop on for one moment and take a look at something?"

I can hear Lewis Black right now... Sure, I'll hop right on the FU bus right now! FU you incompetent little S!

Seventeen years ago. That's pretty impressive. Sure, R&D create things and technologies oftentimes years prior to public introduction; I'd sure like to know what technologies would be the norm seventeen years from now and I hope they'd improve and enrich the lives of the majority of humanity.

Chris L

Progress doesn't come in even steps. Some facets develop by leaps and bounds and some like a snail. I remember the N.Y Worlds fair in 1964 and the predictions made by all the commercial exhibitors for what the world would be like 25-30 years down the road. Boy were they wrong.

When you really think about it the typical persons life in 1900 is not unlike ours. We still get up go to work and toil and get old, sick and die. It's all the window dressing and gee wiz stuff that has changed.

holy cow i remember watching those commercials when they came out and though "that would be really cool if they could actually do that" now its not really cool its just part of life

-dan-

Yeah, yeah, how come they couldn't predict Lady Gaga? Or did they just keep it to themselves

Originally Posted by gugi

Yeah, yeah, how come they couldn't predict Lady Gaga? Or did they just keep it to themselves

You mean how come they couldn't PREVENT her?

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

You mean how come they couldn't PREVENT her?

two words: poker face

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