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What's Always Next?
bettiwettiwoo writes "In its 'What's Next' issue, Time has a charmingly silly piece called What's Always Next? , in which is provided '[a] sampling of the future that wasn't': things that have been predicted since day dot, but have somehow never materialized. The examples they give are: videophones; moon colonies; food in pills; cars that drive themselves; jet packs; and moving sidewalks.
... There are, after all, so many and varied things -- ranging from the very serious to the down-right silly -- that are predicted time and again, yet seem curiously absent in our daily lives. Examples: global catastrophies of the Armageddon kind (be they population overload, total environmental disasters, plagues, asteroids, or nuclear wars); a secure and bug-free Windows; the end of Madonna's singing career (her 'acting' career was, I believe, still-born)." So what are you waiting for?
And here is the link in html .
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird -- Proverbs 1:17
And here is the link where you don't have remove the %20.
Why haven't people learned that pasting URLs doesn't work on slashdot...
I don't believe that anyone in the US has a working mobile video phone - unlike us lucky, lucky people in the UK, Italy, Aus and Japan. You're just lagging behnd the curve.
:(
As to the numbers of people with them - my employer has sold several hundred thousand in the UK and Italy, meaning about 1 in 200 have one which considering we only launched in March is not too bad.
Now if only I could work out how to sign up for the p0rn on my work phone