While I normally do take the time to check my sources I find myself eating humble pie because I wasn’t diligent enough in doing so in a recent post. I had received the image of Home Computer of the Future from a family member in an email and while I did spend a few minutes checking out Modern Mechanix and similar sites to see if I could identify the origin of the image I didn’t fully follow through. Subsequently I use the image (which as now been removed) in a post to help make the point that we don’t really do a good job of predicting the future in response to all the iPad hype and predictions that we have been deluged with since the devices release. I have to thank Rene from the Daily Denada for graciously bringing this to my attention.
At least I am in good company. According to the Museum of Hoaxes the picture:
even fooled Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, who displayed it at a computer conference as proof of the impossibility of predicting future technology
Lesson learned – once again.
