manalang
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06:39:50 pm on September 19, 2004 | # |
Caption below the image reads:
Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use and only [truncated]
Could you imagine what they would have predicted a “portable” computer would look like?
Update: Turns out this is a hoax. I got this from del.icio.us/popular — the original image came from here… from some guy named Scott

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