Microsoft's vision of the 'smart home' from 1999 was stunningly accurate

[Shawn Knight]

Back in 1999, Microsoft released a promotional video detailing its vision of a futuristic "smart home." Clips from the past like these are usually good for some laughs as the predictions presented typically prove to be way off the mark...

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[Skidmarksdeluxe]

And that was 15 years ago. My house hasn't changed much in that time and I don't think it'll be changing all that much in the next 15 other than the odd lick of paint here and there. I'm quite happy with the way things are.

 

[Teko03]

Amazing how Microsoft had all of the ideas and didn't push any of this to consumers. Microsoft Research is the most innovative waste of money ever.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Did you guys see how big that girls iPhone was? lol

 

[Mr WW]

The problem was that they couldn't get the basic TCP/IP protocol good working on Win98.
So simple communication between devices always dropped.

 

[gamoniac]

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