Blast from the Past- Predictions Look How Many Came True!
It was 1993
I don’t actually remember this series of ads by AT&T, but to look at them now is pretty cool. So many of their predictions came true – from GPS, to Kindle and Skype.
The part that’s not cool, is while AT & T predicted them, AT& T owns none of them …
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Branie – I sat in amazement watching that. Crazy to think that was only 1993.
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I do remember those ads. And I remember having a good connection to my AOL account in 1993 after I got the cool floppy disc in the mail.
AT&T may not have those things… but they do have the iPhone. Now that is impressive.
Doug – Admit it, you had a Compuserve account before AOL, didn’t you? Haha. I did.
Crazy accurate predictions about the future from '93 AT&T ads. Crazier that they own none of the things they predicted- http://bit.ly/4sVMZF
Hi Matt – Yeah, 93 doesn’t seem THAT long ago… And they were so dead bang on target!
Hi Doug – Good point, AT&T did manage to corner the Iphone market (for a period) … but they didn’t seem to do too well in the innovation department, which is the point I believe they were trying to make in these commercials. It would be interesting to know where the ball was dropped.
@Brandie The change really came with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and what they saw in 1993 coming down the pike. AT&T had to re-focus their whole business direction.
@Matt No Compuserve for me. I worked for a big corp in Boston where we had e-mail in the 1980′s and worked on a MiniVax providing content to 300+ CS people (I was the non-tech guy).
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Is Bill Mahr doing the voiceover? I graduated high school in ’93 and never would have imagined that my Ford Festiva (you can stop laughing any time now) would someday be able to have a GPS and satellite radio.
It’s Tom Selleck doing the voice over. I can’t believe we didn’t have GPS or OnDemand back in 93. Seems like those have been around forever. Good stuff Brandie! Thanks for bringing it back.