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Tech Time Warp of the Week: This Tech Giant Saw the Future. Then Google Put It Out of Business
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/tech-time-warp-week-tech-giant-saw-future-google-put-business/Tech Time Warp of the Week: This Tech Giant Saw the Future. Then Google Put It Out of Business
By Cade Metz
09.26.14 | 6:51 pm
Before Uber and Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter, Google and Yahoo, DEC saw the future of the internet.
Take a gander at the video above, a classic from the year 1994 in which the mighty computer maker lays out the next twenty years of internet revolution in a mere three minutes of screen time.
“A global electronic mall is under construction,” the company tells the world’s businesses, by way of an oh-so-’90s narrator. “This means a new array of risks and opportunities. In the future, you’ll be forced to compete with distant companies you never encountered before, and you’ll be able to expand to new markets at low cost. Here, new business models will evolve quickly, with new kinds of partnerships and collaboration—new ways of working together and serving customers and making money.”
How’s that for digital prescience? He even mentions WIRED—though we’re most impressed by the bit about making money, which our narrator delivers with some extra oomph.
