I am lucky enough to have one of the shows that I recorded on a tape back in 1988. This show was prophetic. Notably it featured the first MRI machine which was only large enough for someone to put their leg into. They said that there were plans to build larger versions of the machine in the 1990's that a whole person could fit into. It also featured the enormous liquid-cooled Cray II supercomputer with a whopping 2 gigabytes of RAM memory. Another neat thing was a commercial for CompuServe on the tape. It was a pre-World Wide Web dial-up service that featured the largest bulletin board. And here is the kicker; they ONLY charged ten cents a minute to connect.

I wish that this show could be downloaded off the Web. I find it interesting to look at technological predictions that came true or didn't.

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Explores technological innovations expected to improve lives and hit mass market after 2000, but even concepts from the 1980s remain futuristic and unlikely for consumer use anytime soon.

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