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Blast from the Past- Predictions Look How Many Came True!

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December 3, 2009

It was 1993

I don’t actually remember this series of ads by AT&T, but to look at them now is pretty cool. So many of their predictions came true – from GPS, to Kindle and Skype.

The part that’s not cool, is while AT & T predicted them, AT& T owns none of them …

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Written By Brandie Young

Brandie is an unapologetically candid marketing professional who was recently mentioned on BusinessWeek as a Top Young Female Entrepreneur. She recently co-founded consulting firm MarketingTBD. She's held senior level positions with GE and Fidelity, as well as with entrepreneurial start-ups. Raised by a real estate Broker, Brandie is passionate about real estate and is an avid investor. Follow her on Twitter.

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December 3, 2009 at 10:14 am

Blast from the Past – Predictions (Look How Many Came True!):
It was 1993
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Pat Hallesy

December 3, 2009 at 10:44 am

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December 3, 2009 at 11:01 am

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RealEstate Babble

December 3, 2009 at 11:17 am

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Matt Stigliano

December 3, 2009 at 11:43 am

Branie – I sat in amazement watching that. Crazy to think that was only 1993.

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- Matt Stigliano
  
  December 3, 2009 at 11:47 am
  
  D’oh! Please forgive me. That should read: BranDie
  
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BHG Real Estate

December 3, 2009 at 2:51 pm

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AnneMarie Stephenson

December 3, 2009 at 3:58 pm

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Doug Francis

December 3, 2009 at 4:37 pm

I do remember those ads. And I remember having a good connection to my AOL account in 1993 after I got the cool floppy disc in the mail.

AT&T may not have those things… but they do have the iPhone. Now that is impressive.

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- Matt Stigliano
  
  December 3, 2009 at 6:36 pm
  
  Doug – Admit it, you had a Compuserve account before AOL, didn’t you? Haha. I did.
  
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Connect Realty

December 3, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Crazy accurate predictions about the future from '93 AT&T ads. Crazier that they own none of the things they predicted- https://bit.ly/4sVMZF

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Brandie Young

December 3, 2009 at 6:18 pm

Hi Matt – Yeah, 93 doesn’t seem THAT long ago… And they were so dead bang on target!

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Brandie Young

December 3, 2009 at 6:20 pm

Hi Doug – Good point, AT&T did manage to corner the Iphone market (for a period) … but they didn’t seem to do too well in the innovation department, which is the point I believe they were trying to make in these commercials. It would be interesting to know where the ball was dropped.

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Doug Francis

December 3, 2009 at 7:04 pm

@Brandie The change really came with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and what they saw in 1993 coming down the pike. AT&T had to re-focus their whole business direction.

@Matt No Compuserve for me. I worked for a big corp in Boston where we had e-mail in the 1980’s and worked on a MiniVax providing content to 300+ CS people (I was the non-tech guy).

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TReXGlobal.com

December 3, 2009 at 11:16 pm

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Ben Goheen

December 4, 2009 at 12:50 am

Is Bill Mahr doing the voiceover? I graduated high school in ’93 and never would have imagined that my Ford Festiva (you can stop laughing any time now) would someday be able to have a GPS and satellite radio.

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Erin Golding

December 4, 2009 at 11:13 am

It’s Tom Selleck doing the voice over. I can’t believe we didn’t have GPS or OnDemand back in 93. Seems like those have been around forever. Good stuff Brandie! Thanks for bringing it back.

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