AT&T Predicts Future Technologies in 1993, Doesn’t Deliver Them
Global positioning systems, video conferencing, tollbooth transponders, voice-activated key locks, a crazy notebook fax machine, and the wrist phone: all these and more were predicted by AT&T in a 1993 ad campaign that confidently asserted “You Will”—as in you will buy our products. (Isn’t it just like a former monopoly to be so pushy?) As…