Tech predictions

What was your best one

[minnapple]

I have made a few long range tech predictions over the years and a few of them have came true.

My oldest prediction was back in the 80's when we were using 9 track tape for data storage which totaled 150mg.
We had rows and rows of rack tape storage each rack holding 100 tapes.

While speaking to one of our vendor's tech, I said that someday we will be able to hold all the data stored on these racks on a single card.

Hey shook his head, and said "yeah, right Bill"

Have you guys had any predictions that became true?

[incrediBILL]

My Uncle was a hardware guy, I did software, I saw the need for a scanner device that went on top of a dot matrix printer long before the Mac came out, whatever you could print with the dot matrix would have a mirror image scanning matrix to scan it back in.

Uncle saw no use for it.

Mac comes out and someone does it as an add-on for Apple printers and made a mint.

FWIW, I worked for Tallgrass Technologies back in the early 80s, the first hard disk/tape drive combo unit for PCs and I did the 2nd generation tape backup software. I actually developed some simple tech that sped directory search up incredibly for MSDOS back in the day and it would still be faster than what we use today, they were afraid to use it, it frightened them it might 'break' even though it was a bullet-proof add-on that scaled back to what already existed in the event of failure, a win-win. Linux uses something similar today, oh well, I tried ;)

[Old_Honky]

They were using ipad type devices on Star Trek years ago. I can't wait for replicator and transporter technology.

[wheel]

I have been consistently wrong in my tech predictions.