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]
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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]
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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! ...

