The ads have great production design and direction, but I remember watching them in 1993 and thinking that they had just read/watched a bunch of 80s/early 90s s

The ads have great production design and direction, but I remember watching them in 1993 and thinking that they had just read/watched a bunch of 80s/early 90s sci fi and decided to take credit for other people's ideas without doing the hard work of implementing any of it. From previous discussions, it sounds like Bell Labs really did have prototypes of at least some of it, so I was wrong there, but I'm a little surprised if anyone had doubts as to whether any of those things would exist at some point in coming decades. For context, CD Connection was already selling CDs over the internet (telnet interface) when these ads aired. The King County (Washington) library system had a remote media-checkout system (can't remember if it was just dialup or also on the internet) where they'd mail you the material. Consumer GPS devices already existed, even if they were clunky and couldn't display a 3D map. Typical end users didn't have the bandwidth in their homes to do things like colour videoconferencing or Netflix-style on-demand video, but lots of folks were having text-based international discussions. I suppose a lot of it wasn't consumer-friendly enough for most people to have seen it in 1993, though.