Google as predicted in 1964

Filed in archive Wired Home General on August 13, 2007

This page always amuses me to see what was predicted in 1964. Here is a girl pictured as doing her homework in the super connected home. "The Answer Machine" it was called then, and as shown in the article "Google as Predicted in 1964" here is a typewriter coupled together with a "screen" of some sort ready to give the girl answers to her homework questions.

Sound familiar? Of course now we see this as being rather ho-hum having a machine on our children's desks ready to give answers to just about any question we can throw at it. This is Google, the Answer Machine our kids all have on their desktop via a computer.

I wonder what else they accurately predicted about our "wired homes" back in 1964? An article "Yesterday's Future: Tomorrow's Home" and published in 2001, compared people's vision of a wired home in 1955 with what is real today. The 1955 version was pretty accurate with TV 'pumped' to all rooms of the home but of course got the detail wrong relating to DVD players and the like.

Still very interesting to see how far we have measured up in reality to what was predicted in previous years.