Home Computer of the FUTURE!

[Jesda]

"Czech scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems."

Thats great and all, but what the hell is the steering wheel for? Can you imagine hauling that thing to LAN parties?

-Jesda

[DAEDALUS]

This is such a Mr1der post. Nice find.

Notice everything is analog on that "computer". This was 7 years after the invention of the transistor and several years before the invention of the integrated circuit chip. They were about to be hit by a tidal wave of technology they could not have predicted.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Dude...that's not a steering wheel...its the mouse. The small wheel controls vertical, and the big one does horizontal. I mean, come on, I realized that from the beginning. The real question: Will it run Half Life 2?

[Cyberkreig]

Dude, it looks like something out of a Nuclear reactor! I'd like to have one as art!

[Rex]

Unix, Unix, Unix, eunuch, Unix, Unix, Unix

[w1ngzer0]

lol hahaha yep punch cards and computers the size of a room.

BTW no one knew what direction computers were going if they were going robotic or some other route.

But the computers of the future will be organic

[Mr1der]

oh man!

where can I get a huge wheel for my PC?!?!?!?!?

[jEzTeR]

LMAO

Good one!

[base9se]

LOL, this was when?

[EZcheese15]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

[PalmerWMD]

That would explain all the dials and gauges.

[Jesda]

A submarine! Wow. Steering wheel finally explained. I guess its not used with "Need for Speed"