It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

"a vision of the future that is at once dated and accurate. It is a window into the low-res past, full of the supposedly outmoded technologies that still form the kernel of our day to day computing experience"

a book published in 1963 by General Dynamics Astronautics. The book asked politicians, military commanders and scientists to speculate as to where humanity would be, a hundred years hence, in the great push towards space.

Starfire, the Movie, showing a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the far-off distant year, 2004.

"You're stuck and you need some answers.
So you get help from your answer machine.
On a table next to you, is a part of the machine - a typewriter keyboard.
When you push the correct keys, your questions will be answered on a screen on the wall."

"evoking the ancient with materials collected from the fossil bed of technology" / The perfect blend between hieroglyphic and microchips circuitry

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Predictions of the Year 2000
from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900