Friday :: 03 July 2009 :: 09:14 PM
175 days to Christmas!
A Look Into The Future From The Vantage Of 1954
Dateline 1954 - a look fifty years into the future
Scientists from the Rand Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'home computer' could look like 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 fifty years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With the teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use.
Random Humor: Another Work Place Joke
A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they went out to the flagpole with ladders and tape measures, and they were falling off the ladders, dropping the tape measures - the whole thing was just a mess.
An engineer came along and saw what they were trying to do, walked over, pulled the flagpole out of the ground, laid it flat, measured it from end to end, gave the measurement to one of the managers and walked away.
After the engineer was gone, one manager turned to another and laughed. "Isn't that just like an engineer? We're looking for the height and he gives us the length."