Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AT&T Predicted the Future!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is just a fun little flashback – video 1993. – that was 20 years ago. I was born in 1993 uh and that’s quite a long time ago, in tech terms, i mean 20 years from now will be in 2033. So we’ll have you know the iphone 25s or something i mean it’s a long time from now. So a lot can happen in technology in 20 years uh 20 years ago, in 1993, att was a pretty big company still and they made this random sort of futuristic commercial.
It’S the first link in the description below the like button on this video and it is definitely worth a watch. In fact, let’s go ahead and watch it together. This is the commercial at t put out 20 years ago in 1993., [ Applause, ]. Have you ever borrowed a book from thousands of miles away across the country without stopping for directions or send someone a fax from the beach you will and the company that’ll bring it to you a t and t uh what what in 1993? How did they know? This in 1993, who made this commercial for at t in 1993., have you ever borrowed a book from thousands of miles away? I literally just did on my phone like a couple minutes ago.
Have you ever crossed the country without stopping to ask for directions? I actually did that a week ago, literally, seven days ago. I did that too and have you ever sent someone a fax from the beach? Well, if you replace the word facts with email or text or tweet or direct message or anything else, yes, i have and the company to all bring it to you at t. Well, okay, so they didn’t. They didn’t get that part right.
But, to be honest, they got way more right than they should have. They actually got hardware designs right. They got designs right, they got implementations right.
They got way more right than pretty much any other company would have even thought of or dreamed of getting close to in 1993. So this was a tv, commercial actually and att aired it on tv between tv shows and everything like any other normal commercial, and this is 20 years ago back when computers looked like this, and the internet was basically just a bunch of a couple thousand lucky people That actually had access to it and it was basically used for just sending messages back and forth between each other. In fact, sixty percent of internet traffic in 1993 was email. Now it’s not now. Uh 60 of internet traffic is definitely not email but reading a book on the internet.
First of all, that’s a thing that happens today. That’S been happening for the past couple of years and in fact google books is what i use and you can read and sync books on the internet right now and dude. She touched the screen like she touched the screen. That’S like a desktop touch screen pc like we see windows, 8, desktop touchscreen, pcs, just coming around now in like the late 2010s to like now, that’s pretty impressive that they already kind of saw that coming and google books on a windows 8 desktop touchscreen pc is Like now a thing, so that’s pretty impressive.
Att also figured that if we were going to navigate across the country without asking for directions that we would need an in-dash touchscreen car mounted gps system that narrates us directions in real time. That is a hundred percent accurate. You have to remember that cars in 1993 look nothing like they do now, or at least the inside did. The interior was all analog.
There was no digital, you know no touch, screens, no displays or anything sort of digital at all inside of cars. In 1993. Very few buttons that we see today and now it already knows that we’re going to be using things even the interface, that kind of showed was kind of similar to what i’d expect to even see in the next few years, from now pretty crazy and finally, the Dude at the end of the video sends a handwritten message digitally to someone from the beach again touch screen. Stylus fluid interface, 3g connectivity.
It’S it’s looking a lot like the galaxy tab. 10.1 does. Obviously they didn’t get the form factor.
Quite right kind of looks like a freaky fat device, but you obviously can’t predict that stuff, but they got the idea right. They got the implementation right and that’s a product that we see today. The samsung galaxy tab.
10.1 lte does exactly that right now. So you win 18 t either way you you just took the w. You win, i’m going to definitely watch all your futuristic style commercials very carefully from now on, so that i can know exactly what the world’s going to be like in 2033., either way. What do you guys think? What do you think of the world in 2033? Are we seeing it in commercials now flying cars or just google wallet everywhere? What does their future kind of hold? I know there’s a lot of kind of silly, robotic, themed, droid commercials that we’re seeing kind of phase out from the motorola days.
But honestly, a lot of the stuff is pretty interesting and i’m excited to see if anything at least awesome. Looking like google glass kind of makes its way forward for our future so either way. Let me know in the comment section below what you’re excited for and i’ll definitely go watch some att commercials now, because i’m excited thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys later peace, you .