OT: 1954 to 2004

[Ming Yue]

This is what the RAND corporation thought a home computer would look like in 2004.

[Ai Lek Ou Seun]

Wow...uncanny...that's what my looks like....except it has a bigger steering wheel.;)

[FngSaiYuk]

It's a fake, that image was never taken (it's basically a photochop) and RAND corp never published it.

[Vash]

Is it windows or a Mac?

[mantis108]

And I thought tricorder was quaint. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the back to the future moment.

Beam me up, scotty. :D

Mantis108

[Ming Yue]

oooo it is fake. I got suckered. :rolleyes:

The picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand side of the photo)

[PHILBERT]

Its obviously fake. The wheel is a different shade, so is the man, the tv set and the type writer. They are all different shades then the rest of the photo and a poor photo chop at that.

[Shaolinlueb]

does anyone remember back in the 50's/60'
s that walt disney had a future land of what homes would look like in the 80's? :hehe:

[IronFist]

Oh fvck that I thought it was real.