Video
on-demand and HD display - I guess these are something we are really thankful for. This was predicted by Roger Ebert in 1987. He said,“We will have high-definition, wide-screen television sets and a push-button dialing system to order the movie you want at the time you want it. You’ll not go to a video store but instead order a movie on demand and then pay for it. Videocassette tapes as we know them now will be obsolete both for showing prerecorded movies and for recording movies. " . He said this when the Omni magazine interviewed him. Must have sounded so philosophical and totally crazy at that time.
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Decades before it became commonplace, futurists predicted moving images transmitted across distances for communication and entertainment. The eventual rise of television, video calls, and online streaming fulfilled what once sounded like science fiction.