From 1954 "Popular Mechanics" Magazine

[Dungeon Keeper]

Classic. This is too funny for words. In case you cannot read what it says, I will write it here.
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Scientist from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasable for the average home. Also, the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With the teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.
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Wooooow.......that's actually quite incredible. Funny, but incredible that we've advanced so friggin far.

[Cain]

Hmmm they were only off by a little

[Larrin]

its strange how impossible people though technological advances were back then.....nowadays it seems people expect that in 10 years computers will be grown on bean plants and be implanted in you skin and controled by eye movements....i know in the future people will look back and think we were foolish, i just wonder if it will be because we expected too much or too little...

[Cain]

All I know is that with nanotechnology that can make an internal computer you could add in a wireless internet implant and have psudotelepathic thought. You would just have to worry about someone hacking your brain...

[Dungeon Keeper]

I don't know about growing them on bean plants, but the technology is already here to implant them in your skin. Take a look at the "Cyberpunk" rpg gaming system. The things they talk about in that game were fantasy when it was created, but reality today.

[Larrin]

Science-Fiction becoming Reality?? It doesn't seem possible....

[Cain]

Yes it is only a matter of time before the bluetooth headset and cell phone completly fuse into one, and they'll have little satalite dish's like O'hura's little ear thiny! ^_^

[Chronica]

Look at the microchips they INJECT into pets now... soon it'll happen to us when we're born. Every time we walk through a door to a business we'll be scanned and logged into a database. Most companies do that with corporate cards, or thumb print identification, but those are easy to bypass these days. Crimes could be figured out sooner if they do this. Heck I think that every baby born needs to have their fingerprints entered into the system incase later on they commit a crime. :P

[Cain]

the thing with the chips is they just store a number though, not that much information. Plus the scanner has to be pritty close to the chip to detect it and the chips have a tendancy to wander...