2003’s Soul-Crushing Office of Tomorrow Tracked Your Every Move

2003's Soul-Crushing Office of Tomorrow Tracked Your Every Move

Sometimes the most accurate visions of the future are also the most terrifying. Like this employee-tracking system imagined in a 2003 concept video by Accenture.

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A Brief History of Speech Recognition’s Glorious Retrofuture

A Brief History of Speech Recognition's Glorious Retrofuture

In the two decades following World War II, it seemed there was no limit to technological growth. Sure, a computer was still the size of an entire room, and no one had telephones in their pockets. But techno-utopian ideas like flying cars and jetpacks and meal pills were all being taken very seriously as the inevitable fruits of science’s labor.

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