Here we're treated to a glimpse of the future from the distant past.
It's always kind of funny to look back on things like this and see just how wrong people were in making predictions about the future (I am, after all, still waiting for my damn flying car), but I find this one especially amusing.
Of course, you can't really fault people for failing to predict the invention of the transistor, but you'd think they could have imagined that things would be getting at least a little bit smaller.
Then again, such shortsightedness is hardly anything new. Consider the (relatively) recent comments of a certain very wealthy man about no one ever needing more than 640 K of memory...
For some time now there's been a big focus on the concept of "convergence," bringing unrelated technologies together with a computer (of some sort) at the center of it all.
In the world of convergence, which is a vision of the future that has largely come to pass, your computer is your telephone, your entertainment system, and your home security system.
In the vision of the future represented by the picture above, though, "convergence" evidently extended to your vehicle.
What else could that steering wheel be for?
PC meets SUV, from the looks of it...
Thanks to Scott for passing this picture along to me.
2 comments:
Unfortunately, there is no clear indication of its function, so we're forced to engage in conjecture. My guess? Remote control for your robot wife.
Silly Heimdall! It's for going mobile! I forgot to tell you that this is the laptop computer of the future. Now with Centrino mobile technology! The only problem is that the 1 Mhz CPU is a real gas hog.
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