world-shaker:

1993 View of the Future by AT&T

It’s kind of spooky just how accurate this is. 

(by jsrambler)

Except for the outsized antenna on the tablet, it’s like today. Except AT&T has dropped out of everything in the ad except renting bandwidth.

18 March 2013 142 world-shaker
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    It is probably because they were currently planning out there data networks. like 3G
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    This video very accurately predicted the future, even down to the voice Google Maps would use for turn by turn...
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