Birthday again!

[elisi]

Wishing the Happiest of Birthdays to treacle_a! Hope your day was as wonderful as you planned! *hugs*

And, since I'm here and I think it might amuse/cheer you, I thought I could link to The Internet as Imagined in 1969. The world ain't perfect, but at least it's moving forward!

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[yourlibrarian]

Funny the things they got both right and wrong. I imagine so much of it focused on handwriting (the bills, the email) because they didn't imagine men, who were anticipated as the primary users, would learn to type. And of course women who needed only to shop and push buttons, wouldn't need to either.

All of which should tip off the prognosticators of today -- your "isms" are likely to make you blind to the real future.

[elisi]

Funny the things they got both right and wrong.
*nods*

I imagine so much of it focused on handwriting (the bills, the email) because they didn't imagine men, who were anticipated as the primary users, would learn to type. And of course women who needed only to shop and push buttons, wouldn't need to either.
It just looks so *odd* - like a car made out of wood or something. And yet other things are very spot-on.

All of which should tip off the prognosticators of today -- your "isms" are likely to make you blind to the real future.
Very true. And how you see the future inevitably says something about who you are.