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0 pointsunethical_ban9y ago0 comments

I've gotten the opposite impression. There was a set of drawings from 1910 predicting Paris in 2010. There were some obvious whiffs, but it broadly predicted automation, remote audio/video communications, and other things.

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mason2409y ago

Predicting advances in technology are easy. What's hard is predict is it's impact on society.

How many people in 1950 would have guessed that social media would be a thing?

masklinn9y ago

> it broadly predicted automation, remote audio/video communications, and other things

It trivially extrapolated technologies it already had: macro-automation and long-range communication (extrapolated from the early telephones to video). Did it predict laptops or smartphones though?

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