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- From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI In the Year 2025 - Responses
- Message-ID: <51044@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:51:24 GMT
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- Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- These predictions remind me of a quote I saw recently in someone's signature,
- maybe even on comp.ai:
-
- > Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes
- > and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum
- > tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
-
- I was also reminded of a picture entitled "New York City of the Future", drawn
- around 1900 or so. It featured lots of really large airships carrying
- people around the city.
-
- -Tom
-