25 technology predictions from 30 years ago and how accurate they were
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In the mid-1990s, tech forecasters made bold predictions about the future, with results ranging from eerily accurate to spectacularly wrong. Bill Gates correctly envisioned smartphones, Ray Kurzweil predicted AI beating chess champions, and video-on-demand disrupted TV — while flying cars and paperless offices never materialized. Accurate forecasters reasoned from technology trends; wrong ones underestimated how fast behavior changes.
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