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It is fascinating what people did predict and what they didn't predict. Smartphones, smartwatches, e-books, face-time calls was all predicted. What people didn'
by goto11 8y ago
It is fascinating what people did predict and what they didn't predict. Smartphones, smartwatches, e-books, face-time calls was all predicted.
What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call.
- eitland 8y ago> What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news Didn't need to predict those. Analog equivalents always existed. > and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call. Who wouldn't ;-) Thanks to the transition to asynchronous message based communication I can have more and more meaningful communication with a larger part of my family than I would if I had to FaceTime or call them. In business it is even more useful as it provides a trail of who did what in addition to the other advantages.
- selestify 8y agoAnalog equivalents existed, but did anyone care to extrapolate from the analog to the digital?
- jayd16 8y agoHmm I feel like Jetsons might have had a video telemarketer but most incarnations of the metaverse talk about commercial enterprise and it's ramifications.
- cptvideo 8y agoHere’s something else that they didn’t predict: that sales of books printed on paper are at their all-time highest now.
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- asveikau 8y ago> Clickbait, Have you ever seen newspaper headlines from, say, the early 20th century? > e-mail phishing, The Nigerian prince scam started in regular postal mail ... > viral fake news Again, early 20th century newspapers... Remember the Maine! > and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call. Telegrams and voice calls overlapped in existence.