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Walter Cronkite Tours the Home of 2001 (1967)
- personlurking 14y agoHere's one of the 25-min shows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MGYrcapdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MGYrcapdk
- tanepiper 14y agoThe delivery methods might be slightly different (hardware devices rather than printed paper- although http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/) but most of this isn't too far from the truth. The main issues though that aren't covered are the dividing lines of wealth that allow people to have these - and the density of living space.
- ju2tin 14y agoThe main way in which these predictions were off the mark is that media distribution in Cronkite's 2001 is still a one-way street, from news organization to individual news consumer. His future world missed the extent to which arguably the most important content generation is done by the consumers themselves -- Twitter, YouTube, blogs, forums, etc. (Okay, there was no Twitter or YouTube in 2001. But you know what I mean.)