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a crazy impossible prediction of the future from 1930
@jd What they got wrong: smoking allowed at a restaurant.
@moonman @jd I'd also say that they got the whole video calls thing wrong. Sure, people make Skype video calls on their phones sometimes, but actual video calls on the phone network isn't really happening, because no one seems to want that. AT&T tried selling video phones back in the 60s, but the customers weren't willing to pay for it.
@thor @jd phones are a lot smaller than in that picture haha.
@thor @moonman @jd Everyone in the past was obsessed about video calls but they seemed to be oblivious to the fact that by the nature of them, they're impractical so they'll always be relegated to special occassions. Even with lifelike holographic tech, vr and all that, it still requires you to be static, on a relatively empty place, and doing not much else than the call. Contrast that to a voice call which only requires you have a mic and speaker next to you and that shows why it never caught on.
@jd @moonman I think the main thing they didn't think about back then is that people would be camera shy, or that they'd simply want privacy for other reasons.