1967 Film Predicted the Internet, Ecommerce, and Online Banking
source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400054,00.asp?google_editors_picks=true
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File this one under, "Sometimes futurists actually get stuff right." OpenCulture.com has unearthed a remarkably prescient short film from 1967 (wrongly labeled as 1969 in the embedded video below) that shows a family using an Internet-like technology on their home and work computers to buy goods and bank remotely via "fingertip shopping."
The film was made by the Philco-Ford Company as part of its "House of the Future" series, which also predicted that programmable microwaves and flat-panel computer displays would be available in 1999. The gender roles assigned to the married couple in the film are pretty cringe-worthy—she does all the online shopping on her multi-display computer while he sits in his office and waits for the bills to get piped over to his own rig—but the speculative technology depicted proves to be as spot-on as the Susie Homemaker plot now seems positively archaic.
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The film was made by the Philco-Ford Company as part of its "House of the Future" series, which also predicted that programmable microwaves and flat-panel computer displays would be available in 1999. The gender roles assigned to the married couple in the film are pretty cringe-worthy—she does all the online shopping on her multi-display computer while he sits in his office and waits for the bills to get piped over to his own rig—but the speculative technology depicted proves to be as spot-on as the Susie Homemaker plot now seems positively archaic.
(more at link)
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AWESOME post, Vierotchka. Thank you so much for the reference.
I archive older films like this on my outboard hard drives. Anything
that Sir Arthur C. Clark et al had imnmagined from back in the day
is my cup of tea. The shape of things to come, as H.G.Wells put it. - 3 months ago
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KB723
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Now that's some Predicting for sure, long before I was Born... =)
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