40-year-old computer future
In 1969, the Japanese magazine Shōnen Sunday published a forecast of how computers will change our lives in the future. The journal article was called “Computopia”, that is, computer utopia. You can look and make a conclusion how far the forecast of 40 years ago corresponds to reality.
For example, school classes should look like this at the beginning of the 21st century. On personal computers, children multiply 3000 by 25. Corrections are made with a light pencil directly on the display.
The teacher is present on the big screen where there should be a blackboard in a normal classroom.
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Robot overseers drive around the room, who hit children with rubber balls on the head, apparently, for the wrong solution of the problem or for bad behavior (sticks can go down from the ceiling, so you can't run away from the robot). Children have fun laughing, if a friend got it. Along the walls of the class are tape drives and punch card receivers.
In the upper right corner of the illustration, the boy is in the grip of some kind of mechanism. Apparently, he is punished.
The second illustration shows the house of the future. It was assumed that this forecast would be justified in twenty years, that is, by 1989.
Computers have become an integral part of people's lives, even in the home. Having come home, a man can put on a home suit, similar to Spider-Man's clothes, sit in a comfortable, sleek armchair and talk on a videophone mounted directly in the armchair. At this time, the home computer (a large closet with a bunch of buttons) prints a fresh newspaper for the head of the family and displays information from the air conditioner on the monitor.
The wife is sitting next to and making some kind of printout, similar to a cashier's check. Paper climbs out of the printer attached to the ironing board, on which the robot-iron drives.
The robot cook is also present in the room, it looks like a samovar and stands in the middle of the dining table, arranging food in skeet. The table on wheels with heated dishes is also automated.
A child watch a three-dimensional TV (projectors from three sides), and flying cars outside the window. A robot vacuum cleaner drives on the floor.
The futurological revelations of the Japanese are being completed by a computerized hospital.
Scanned illustrations of Shōnen Sunday in full scale: 1 , 2 , 3 .
via Pink Tentacle
For example, school classes should look like this at the beginning of the 21st century. On personal computers, children multiply 3000 by 25. Corrections are made with a light pencil directly on the display.
The teacher is present on the big screen where there should be a blackboard in a normal classroom.
')
Robot overseers drive around the room, who hit children with rubber balls on the head, apparently, for the wrong solution of the problem or for bad behavior (sticks can go down from the ceiling, so you can't run away from the robot). Children have fun laughing, if a friend got it. Along the walls of the class are tape drives and punch card receivers.
In the upper right corner of the illustration, the boy is in the grip of some kind of mechanism. Apparently, he is punished.
The second illustration shows the house of the future. It was assumed that this forecast would be justified in twenty years, that is, by 1989.
Computers have become an integral part of people's lives, even in the home. Having come home, a man can put on a home suit, similar to Spider-Man's clothes, sit in a comfortable, sleek armchair and talk on a videophone mounted directly in the armchair. At this time, the home computer (a large closet with a bunch of buttons) prints a fresh newspaper for the head of the family and displays information from the air conditioner on the monitor.
The wife is sitting next to and making some kind of printout, similar to a cashier's check. Paper climbs out of the printer attached to the ironing board, on which the robot-iron drives.
The robot cook is also present in the room, it looks like a samovar and stands in the middle of the dining table, arranging food in skeet. The table on wheels with heated dishes is also automated.
A child watch a three-dimensional TV (projectors from three sides), and flying cars outside the window. A robot vacuum cleaner drives on the floor.
The futurological revelations of the Japanese are being completed by a computerized hospital.
Scanned illustrations of Shōnen Sunday in full scale: 1 , 2 , 3 .
via Pink Tentacle
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/73201/
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