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What old computer magazines predicted about the future

Original: The future in old computer magazines (1984–2004)

A retrospective essay revisits computer magazines from 1984 to 2004 to see how their writers imagined the future of technology. Readers are sharing memories of the era's computing culture and comparing the period's predictions about personal computers, the internet and emerging tech with what actually happened two decades later.

Why now: Nostalgia and curiosity about how accurately past tech writers foresaw today's technology

computer magazinesTomorrow As Usual

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• The future in old computer magazines (1984–2004) · tudell · 60

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