Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Home computer

“Scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems”

Comes with teletype and fortran and everything.


Categories: Memories.

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12 comments

  1. ingaborg

    I have to say, smart peeps! They correctly predicted that it would become possible.

    BTW, have you tried Effies, the little Turkish restaurant on King Street?

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  3. strange_complex

    I smell Photoshop, especially as regards the electronic typewriter on the desk at the front, and probably as regards the monitor on the wall, too.

    I also don’t believe for one minute that the text at the bottom is contemporary with (the majority of) the image: it simply isn’t in the right kind of language for what I suppose is meant to be the 40s / 50s.

    Also, if it was written in the 40s / 50s, why choose a date as specific as 2004 for the time when computers like this would supposedly exist? Could it possibly be because the text was actually written in 2004, I wonder…..?

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    • venta

      Actually, 2004 would make a certain amount of sense if the picture was captioned in 1954.

      But, frankly, it doesn’t seem very likely to me either :)

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  6. Anonymous

    Scientific progress ?….. egotists

    In 50 years time I expect progress to be hallucigenic, halitsotic or something

    Smiff

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