Post by MIT Media Lab

In Quartz, Cris Tolomia looks back at 25 tech predictions from the 1990s, including some from Media Lab researchers. “What's most useful about revisiting these predictions isn't the scorecard,” Tolomia writes. “It's the pattern. The forecasters who got the big things right shared a common quality: they understood the underlying technology well enough to reason from first principles about what it would enable.”