Paleo-Future is a good site that shows how over time, what Humanity believed the future would look like. The results are quite hilarious. It will be interesting to see if the future predictions get better now with the compass of disruption at hand.
Here is an excerpt of one article, from 1981, that got very close.
Such developments may lie far in the future, but there’s no doubt that the computer is going to affect home entertainment soon. The magazines, books, records, tapes and television sets we now have will begin to disappear. But in their place the computer will offer us a greater range of entertainment.
The home computer will be linked to a radio dish on your roof. A satellite or radio mast feeds it with many television channels; on the viewscreen of the computer, you can sit and watch the news or sport in several other countries as well as your own. The radio dish or telephone wires also link your home to computer complexes that feed it with all kinds of recorded entertainment – films, television shows you have missed, video magazines and news. Music comes through the computer too, playing whatever you want and whenever with a quality far beyond today’s records and tapes. If you want to read something on your own, a portable screen linked to the computer displays any story of your choice.
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