“Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'home computer' could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.”
[Popular Science, 1954. A gift .jpg of kangaroo computer driving gloves to Barb Donelan for sending this.]
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Fark Alert: Damned you, digital truth! A reader writes guessing that this is a Fark Job [if not Worth 1000], and the suggestion sets off a siren in my head that wails duck and cover. I'm not inclined to track this down like it's a Bruno Magli loafer in the O.J. Simpson case. But I DO care, since I long for a computer with a steering wheel. Honestly, the clues are right there in front of us. If this were real, the TV would have a moulded plastic pedestal. And the driver would never have printed his own output―he'd have his secretary do it.
But is it for real?
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
I think it was from a PhotoShop contest at fark.com
Posted by: Reggie | 19 November 2004 at 11:43 AM