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AT&T‘s 1993 "You Will" ad campaign.

Heard about this AT&T ad campaign on Peter Diamanti's podcast "Moonshot" today.
They basically predicted the future in 1993. 

(You will hear 6x "You Will … and the company that will bring it to you … AT&T. — sorry 😬)

None of this was too far-fetched in 1993 though, was it? That’s the year I got online and got a glimpse of what promises the internet held. It’s also the year the Apple Newton came out, ushering in the era of PDAs. The GPS navigation on the car was prescient but the satellites were in place. AT&T being the monopoly of the time was in a strong position to extrapolate the future.

In some ways I am more impressed by Vannevar Bush’s concept of the memex (a networked computer and subsequent information explosion) published in July 1945!

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I was a toddler in 93, the first contact with a computer was with those black/green type interfaces (MS-DOS or UNIX???) and than as a user with Windows 95. But is it true that AT&T wanted to create their own closed off internet as a monopolist. 

Douglas Engelbart's video call presentation was truly visionary. I think that was in the 60s. Not just a simulation, but also technically implemented with the means available at the time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhpTiWyVa6k&pp=ygUlZG91Z2xhcyBlbmdlbGJhcnQgbW90aGVyIG9mIGFsbCBkZW1vcw%3D%3D

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In the US, AOL was the dominant closed-internet quasi-monopoly at the onset

None of this was too far-fetched in 1993 though, was it? That’s the year I got online and got a glimpse of what promises the internet held. It’s also the year the Apple Newton came out, ushering in the era of PDAs. The GPS navigation on the car was prescient but the satellites were in place. AT&T being the monopoly of the time was in a strong position to extrapolate the future.

In some ways I am more impressed by Vannevar Bush’s concept of the memex (a networked computer and subsequent information explosion) published in July 1945! https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/227181.227186