Life in 2001!

[MickeyFinn]

An article about what life would be like in 2001, as predicted in October of 1989.


http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue113/p20_21st_CENTURY_COMPUTING.php

[Bedpost]

this line is great

Saffo agrees. "The personal computer as we know it will persist longer in the home than in business," he predicts. "But by 1996–1997, they'll start to disappear. They'll become a low-end commodity like the typewriter."
However, Saffo notes that a unified TV, stereo, and computer system will initially be only superficial, a matter of unified control. "Deep, true multimedia is where the computer knows everything that's on the screen. We'll be lucky to get that kind of depth by the year 2001."