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Loader Twitter.com Login Join Twitter! Remember the AT "You Will" ads from 1993? Amazing how many of these came true... http://bit.ly/GqCZ8 8:42 AM Sep 17th from TweetDeck Pogue David Pogue Footer 2009 Twitter About Us Contact Blog Status Goodies API Business Help Jobs Terms Privacy

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Remember The AT&T Ads About the Future? You Will [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — ... day, magazines would be sent to you as a CD-ROM sponsored by ads. Uh, no. Crazy to think that was only 16 years ago. It's ironic that the main two things the ads get wrong are now core AT&T; businesses: We don't fax from the beach (we email; but close enough), and we don't video chat from public telephones (or with our iPhones—where's my forward-facing camera damn it). And as for tele-commuting in your bare feet? Hey, I'm doing that right now… [YouTube via David Pogue] ...

Remember Those AT&T Ads About the Future? You Will [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — ... day, magazines would be sent to you as a CD-ROM sponsored by ads. Uh, no. Crazy to think that was only 16 years ago. It's ironic that the main two things the ads get wrong are now core AT&T; businesses: We don't fax from the beach (we email; but close enough), and we don't video chat from public telephones (or with our iPhones—where's my forward-facing camera damn it). And as for tele-commuting in your bare feet? Hey, I'm doing that right now… [YouTube via David Pogue] ...

AT&T's 1993 predictions were remarkably accurate
Core77 — ... But as David Pogue twitters, "Remember the AT&T; 'You Will' ads from 1993? Amazing how many of these came true..." and man--he's right! ...