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How about this thing?

http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/5/14/tablet-newspaper-1994.html

Bah, for good predictions of the future, it's the Ladies' Home Journal or nothing.

http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/17/what-may-happen-in-the-next-hundred-years-ladies-home-journa.html

Maybe off-topic since I only read the headline, not even the summary. Check out Paleofuture.

Check this supersonic fantasy machine: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/12/16/the-sno-melter-1960.html

And a Ladies Home Journal article in 1900 had similar predictions.
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/17/what-may-happen-in-the-next-hundred-years-ladies-home-journa.html

It's actually quite educational to look back 100 years or more, and see exactly where they thought we would be:

To view the "future" as it was seen in each decade since 1870:
http://www.paleofuture.com/

I get a kick out of the postcard with the pilot flying by a sky bar grabbing a drink "to go". Never mind drunk driving, hammered is the only way to fly!

As another user pointed out, that is a hoax.

But don't be alarmed - I suggest a trip to one of my favourite blogs, Paleo-Future, where they've catalogued several genuine funky visions of these futuristic computer things. Just search for "computer" in the blog archive, click away, and be amazed. =)

This one was written in 1900, and is surprisingly accurate:

http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/04/what-may-happen-in-next-hundred-years.html

Some highlights:

Submarine boats submerged for days will be capable of wiping a whole navy off the face of the deep. Balloons and flying machines will carry telescopes of one-hundred-mile vision with camera attachments, photographing an enemy within that radius. These photographs as distinct and large as if taken from across the street, will be lowered to the commanding officer in charge of troops below

Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a "hello girl".

The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.