Want some laughs? Read Wired's predictions for the future from 1996

Here's some great predictions:

 

1999 - The Male Birth Control Pill

2001 - Global wireless phone number

2002 - AIDS Vaccine

2003 - 1/5 of US workers telecommute

2003 - Universal video phones

2008 - Hemp based auto fuel

2009 - VR sunglasses

2009 - Orgasmotron

2010 - Viable smart drugs

2010 - Robot surgeon in a pill

 

Shockingly they did get some things right, but just the dates/methods of execution way wrong:

 

1997 - Affordable home cd recorders

1997 - Movies on Demand

1998 - Flat rate phone service

2005 - Computer defeats chess grandmaster

2010 - Death of audio cd as primary music format

2013 - the book goes digital

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