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AT&T was putting out ads that correctly predicted more or less all of our current consumer tech world in 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo&feat

AT&T was putting out ads that correctly predicted more or less all of our current consumer tech world in 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo&feature=share&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo&feature=share&si... The use cases were pretty clear and you didn’t need to be a quasi-religious fanatic with vested financial interests to find them believable.

bandrami 4y ago
Hell, the 3rd season of James Burke's Connections in 1983 showed him talking to a voice-activated and voice-responding virtual digital assistant over a satellite modem scheduling videoconferences, buying airplane tickets, and making electronic financial transactions. Everything about that was already possible in 1983 except for the voice recognition; it just wasn't yet cheap enough to be in mass use.