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spencer_ross
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17h ago
Question about that 2016 article saying we'd all have self-driving cars by 2020
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barbara399
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19h ago
Unpopular opinion: I used to think self checkout was a fad, then a cashier in Reno proved me wrong
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nathan_patel
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1d ago
Shoutout to the 1995 issue of Popular Mechanics that swore we'd have no more traffic by 2005
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nancys90
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1d ago
A guy at the Boise library said my 'future of the web' ad clipping was cheating, so I redid my whole board
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danielmartinez
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4d ago
Shoutout to the $800 I put into a used car in 2019 because everyone said it was a money pit
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joelsanchez
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4d ago
I laughed at my buddy's prediction in 2016 that he'd pay his mortgage with YouTube money, then he showed me his AdSense page
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thomas_young
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4d ago
My dad bet me $50 in 2008 that nobody would ever watch movies on a phone
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susan_wells
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4d ago
Serious question, what old tech prediction did you actually believe until you hit a number that proved it dead?
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mason.paige
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5d ago
Serious question, did anyone actually believe that whole 'no one will ever need more than 640K of RAM' line back in 1981?
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ivan211
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7d ago
Serious question, does anyone else remember that 2005 Wired article saying we would all be eating bug protein bars by 2015?
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felixward
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8d ago
A guy on this sub told me my cold takes were boring, so I went digging through a 1995 issue of Wired and found a doozy
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sagey69
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8d ago
Shoutout to the 1962 Popular Mechanics article promising we would all have robot maids by 1982
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olivere30
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14d ago
That 1999 article about flying cars made me flip my stance on predictions
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noahs82
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17d ago
Ken Olsen quote looked dumb for years, but now I get it
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jordan653
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19d ago
That 1977 'videophone will replace mail' article aged like milk, just read it at my dentist's office
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