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“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and, in 1996, catastrophically collapse.”
—Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995 Well, shit. And this one reminded me of the cloud communities piece that was submitted yesterday: "Houses will be able to fly [by 2000]… The time may come when whole communities may migrate south in the winter, or move to new lands whenever they feel the need for a change of scenery." —Futurist Arthur C. Clarke, Vogue, 1966 The post in question: http://hubski.com/pub?id=9417
Oh boy, this one killed me:
"Tomorrow’s belle of the ball may spray her hair with a substance that attracts butterflies, and then release her own butterflies from a plastic bag so that they can hover around her head during the evening." —Henry Still, Man: the Next 30 Years, 1968