I’d say most of those things have in fact come to pass. The ones that haven’t are primarily non-technological matters of preference (ie, keyboards) or highly specialized/low profit market niches (services for the disabled, primary education).
Rotating memory is on the way out, we’ve all got (or can easily have) high resolution wireless telephony/internet, and printed newspapers and magazines are essentially dead.
He’s also very right about the growing neo-luddite movement. Case in point the organic anti-GM lobby and the anti-nuclear coal fetishists.
I’d say most of those things have in fact come to pass. The ones that haven’t are primarily non-technological matters of preference (ie, keyboards) or highly specialized/low profit market niches (services for the disabled, primary education).
Rotating memory is on the way out, we’ve all got (or can easily have) high resolution wireless telephony/internet, and printed newspapers and magazines are essentially dead.
He’s also very right about the growing neo-luddite movement. Case in point the organic anti-GM lobby and the anti-nuclear coal fetishists.