AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Wow, I very very vaguely remember those. Video phones are kind of like robots and jet packs though, they've been promising them for decades now.

video over the internet on laptops is pretty easy, the n810 by nokia is a phone sized tablet pc with wifi and a video camera, and if the iphone or another smartphone with 3g had a camera mounted on the same side as the screen it would probably be doable on a 3g network, at least with a low res video.

Old news man, been the norm for a couple of years outside the US.

well im not outside the US and i have a shitty phone so i wouldnt know

 

[Crono]

Repost, but still interesting. Most of the technology they predicted was already in the works, and not solely by them. What's more amazing is when tech from sci-fi 50 years ago becomes real.

 

[spidey07]

That's wild. Pretty damn accurate too. I remember exactly where we were at with communications in 1993. This stuff seemed really far fetched but we knew it would happen eventually.

 

[sindows]

So where is the equivalent video for the next 15 years?

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: loki8481
hah. I can't even remember the last time I used a pay phone... though there are 2 within a block of my house.

I do remember, it was 9/11 when all the cell towers got overloaded and I didn't have a home landline.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Crono
Repost, but still interesting. Most of the technology they predicted was already in the works, and not solely by them. What's more amazing is when tech from sci-fi 50 years ago becomes real.

Exactly.. it's not really all that amazing that they made a video about that stuff. In fact it kinda sucks that it's taken so long when you think about how long ago the video was made.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: mb

Originally posted by: Crono
Repost, but still interesting. Most of the technology they predicted was already in the works, and not solely by them. What's more amazing is when tech from sci-fi 50 years ago becomes real.

Exactly.. it's not really all that amazing that they made a video about that stuff. In fact it kinda sucks that it's taken so long when you think about how long ago the video was made.

In 1993 a 56k digital circuit was "fast". The advancements in communication technology since then is nothing short of miraculous.

 

[Deeko]

Honestly, this isn't that shocking. Much of the technology in these videos are not exactly 2009 inventions, the infrastructure to be able to do them has been in the works for some time now - so in 1993, with the internet coming to fruition, it isn't that hard to extrapolate this stuff.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: loki8481
hah. I can't even remember the last time I used a pay phone... though there are 2 within a block of my house.

You must live in the ghetto then... because that's the only place I see pay phones

 

[HannibalX]

Most of that technology already existed in 1993, although was in limited production and expensive.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: sindows
So where is the equivalent video for the next 15 years?

Microsoft and other companies make videos like this all the time.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: iFX
Most of that technology already existed in 1993, although was in limited production and expensive.

Exactly what I was going to say.
1993 is only 16 years ago. A lot of this tech was around in very limited (ie: expensive and prototype) basis. It really isn't like they were using a crystal ball here. They knew what they were working on, what IBM was working, what everyone was working on and could see down the path THEY were helping create.

 

[Modelworks]

A lot of it is old tech. I worked in college part time installing phones in cars. Yes we once had to install them, placing antennas on the back glass and transmitters glued to the inside that transmitted through the glass to the antenna. Never will forget working on a Porsche and pulled back a side panel to hide the wiring and heard something snap, was so scared I broke something, instead it was a pencil I had in my pocket.


Really the biggest improvement has been just shrinking the existing stuff and ideas down in size.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Honestly, this isn't that shocking. Much of the technology in these videos are not exactly 2009 inventions, the infrastructure to be able to do them has been in the works for some time now - so in 1993, with the internet coming to fruition, it isn't that hard to extrapolate this stuff.

Okay, let's see it. Predict some stuff for 2025.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
A lot of it is old tech. I worked in college part time installing phones in cars. Yes we once had to install them, placing antennas on the back glass and transmitters glued to the inside that transmitted through the glass to the antenna. Never will forget working on a Porsche and pulled back a side panel to hide the wiring and heard something snap, was so scared I broke something, instead it was a pencil I had in my pocket.


Really the biggest improvement has been just shrinking the existing stuff and ideas down in size.

Exactly what I was going to say.
2009 is this year, and next year will be 2010 believe it or not. I have imagined a prototype object that will invert your 4th dimensional existance and allow you to slipstream to an alternate 5th dimensional reality.

Imagine being able to undo the biggest mistakes in your life and moving forward in an alternate preferred timeline. :shocked:

All I need to do is to perfect the whole anti-time thing and not having much money to make progress beyond the dream stage.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

Originally posted by: SandEagle
yup, i remember all of those commercials. i thought AT&T was dreaming if they could bring that s*** to fruition. oh how wrong I was.

To be fair, you were essentially correct. I'm pretty sure AT&T failed pretty hard at personally inventing any of those things

They broke off from NCR and NCR was directly responsible for much of it.

Lucent/Agere/Avaya were responsible for a bunch of it too. They were all AT&T spin offs.

They need to do another round of these ads... but only if they bring back Tom Selleck!

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

Originally posted by: SandEagle
yup, i remember all of those commercials. i thought AT&T was dreaming if they could bring that s*** to fruition. oh how wrong I was.

To be fair, you were essentially correct. I'm pretty sure AT&T failed pretty hard at personally inventing any of those things

They broke off from NCR and NCR was directly responsible for much of it.

Lucent/Agere/Avaya were responsible for a bunch of it too. They were all AT&T spin offs.

They need to do another round of these ads... but only if they bring back Tom Selleck!

They could use the theme, "We told you so!"



MotionMan

 

[fallout man]

YouTube comment:

"Have you ever seen a gif of shitting? dick nipples...from a catamaran?"

Indeed.

 

[ballmode]

Minority Report

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Deeko
Honestly, this isn't that shocking. Much of the technology in these videos are not exactly 2009 inventions, the infrastructure to be able to do them has been in the works for some time now - so in 1993, with the internet coming to fruition, it isn't that hard to extrapolate this stuff.

Okay, let's see it. Predict some stuff for 2025.

Printable devices and electronics. Need a new programmable remote for the latest device in your home theater? Check your cartridge level and print one from SourceForge onto a flexible PCB that goes inside your remote housing you also printed on your 3D printer. Go to the rubber-buttons section at Wal-Mart and buy another numeric keypad membrane and some random auxiliary buttons in the hardware section (in the sorted bins between the screws and the wire fasteners they carry today).

 

[sandorski]

"Scary accuracy"? Not really. That was all the buzz at the time and not something AT&T came up with. Now if the Ad was from 1983, I'd be making a Pilgrimage to AT&T HQ to give my Respect and begging for Mercy.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Deeko
Honestly, this isn't that shocking. Much of the technology in these videos are not exactly 2009 inventions, the infrastructure to be able to do them has been in the works for some time now - so in 1993, with the internet coming to fruition, it isn't that hard to extrapolate this stuff.

Okay, let's see it. Predict some stuff for 2025.

Printable devices and electronics. Need a new programmable remote for the latest device in your home theater? Check your cartridge level and print one from SourceForge onto a flexible PCB that goes inside your remote housing you also printed on your 3D printer. Go to the rubber-buttons section at Wal-Mart and buy another numeric keypad membrane and some random auxiliary buttons in the hardware section (in the sorted bins between the screws and the wire fasteners they carry today).

That sounds like the worst idea ever. Normal people do not want to assemble their own remotes or other electronic devices.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Deeko
Honestly, this isn't that shocking. Much of the technology in these videos are not exactly 2009 inventions, the infrastructure to be able to do them has been in the works for some time now - so in 1993, with the internet coming to fruition, it isn't that hard to extrapolate this stuff.

Okay, let's see it. Predict some stuff for 2025.

Printable devices and electronics. Need a new programmable remote for the latest device in your home theater? Check your cartridge level and print one from SourceForge onto a flexible PCB that goes inside your remote housing you also printed on your 3D printer. Go to the rubber-buttons section at Wal-Mart and buy another numeric keypad membrane and some random auxiliary buttons in the hardware section (in the sorted bins between the screws and the wire fasteners they carry today).

...or buy a Harmony Remote.

MotionMan

 

[lurk3r]

Originally posted by: rockyct
Yeah, that is pretty accurate. Of course, AT&T didn't really do any of that. The internet did.

So we must have to thank Al Gore since he invented the internet.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: lurk3r

Originally posted by: rockyct
Yeah, that is pretty accurate. Of course, AT&T didn't really do any of that. The internet did.

So we must have to thank Al Gore since he invented the internet.

...and give SOME credit to Tom Selleck, too.

MotionMan