Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway (1993)

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"The same system will allow anybody with a camcorder to distribute videos to the world -- a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent or a deluge of truly awful home movies."

So Time magazine predicted youtube...

Took me a couple minutes to realize that the article assumes that all of this would essentially happen with and through the Cable companies and that a TV-like interface would be a dominant part of it.

Amazing how much the standards have changed. Amazing that YouTube is acceptable for most people, when 15 years ago they were predicting HD style content.

In fairness, HD is gradually enroaching on online video; to some extent, it's been a matter of waiting for the cameras to catch up and become affordable for more than a few. I go to YouTube mainly for music videos now, whereas anything creative tends to appear on Vimeo first.

> a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent and a deluge of truly awful home movies

Fixed.

Pretty accurate, as far as predictive articles go (even "very near-future predictive articles"). Funnily conservative sometimes - it never sees the "all of them, for free" option ahead.

Even more predictions on the future...

ATT's You Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8

MCI's No More There http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJhRPBJPoO0

And hulu.com still doesn't work in Canada. Grrr.

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