Readers reply: what have been the most prescient or accurate predictions of the future?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers the art of soothsaying, prognostication and futurismThis week’s question: What would be the most useful superpower?‘Fingertip shopping will be one of the many homemakers’ conveniences. This video console will be channelled into the store of her choice …” I’ve always been fascinated by this 1967 video (not 1969, as the label says) which accurately foresaw the advent of online shopping, CCTV, fax/email and electronic banking. (It was a little…
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