28.04.2011 23:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Newspaper thinktank predicted the iPad in 1994

It's not often (well, ever) that I consider the possibility someone might be from the future, but maybe Roger Fiddler was. In 2007 the Paleofuture blog pointed to the video below, where Fiddler and his team at Knight-Ridder describe an electronic newspaper running on what might as well be an iPad except that the video was made way back in 1994. Most futurists are off the mark, or make forecasts for technologies that are so far off in the future, you'll never know if they are right, but the Knight-Ridder team's predictions for the "electronic tablet" were just eerie. Granted, they forecast it for the turn of the century -- and in their version of the future, people still wore collarless den

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