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Walter Cronkite Predicts the Home Office of the 21st Century from 1967

Feb 04 2013

Today, if you're watching video online, you're likely busy catching up on Super Bowl ads (and perhaps Googling this Paul Harvey feller).

But as long as you're in the mood for reflection, take a look at these videos from 1967 in which Walter Cronkite tries to predict what the living room, kitchen, and, most peculiarly, home office of the 21st century will look like.

"In the home of the future, we may not have to go to work; the work would come to us. In the 21st century, it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console."

Maybe.

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