[ih] Fiction->History

[Miles Fidelman]

John Day wrote:
> C’mon, Craig, ;-) predictions over 20 years is hardly any time at all. ;-)  I was thinking of all of those predictions by experts of 50 to 100 years.  They seldom even get the broad brush right.
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> Actually, at a recent conference I got asked the “old man question.”  ;-)  “Gee, what do you think about having all of these iPhones and iPads and stuff?”  ;-)  After stifling a chuckle, I patiently explained that in 1974, there was a book called Computer Lib/Dream Machines  by Ted Nelson and Stewart Brand that laid out the Dynabook and much else. We have just been waiting for the hardware to catch up.  ;-)  (And BTW, I still have my copy).
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> Predicting over the last 40 years in our field has been relatively easy. The hard part has been predicting the dumb things that have happened!  ;-)
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Internet porn was easy to predict.  Kitten memes, not so much. :-)

Miles

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra