A Real Fortune Teller from 1999.

Doesn't destroy your privacy if you stay off social media, but many people don't see that as an option.

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Doesn't destroy your privacy if you stay off social media, but many people don't see that as an option.

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Not even close to being true.

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I'd love to know if that is real.

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It's real.

It's the same guy that wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles" episode of Star Trek.

In 1999, Ester Schindler asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine.

Meh, anybody could have predicted that.

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Doesn't destroy your privacy if you stay off social media, but many people don't see that as an option.

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Sorry to break it to you, but your phone listens to what you do regardless of whether you're on social media. It knows where you are, who you talk to, etc.


Even if you insulate yourself from all of that, we still have no privacy anymore. When you only had a land line, you could just not answer the phone and "disappear" for a while. Now we are on call 24/7. Try not answering your phone for 3 or 4 hours when your SO is calling: they'll either think your dead or cheating.

Arm chair quarterbacking is really easy too.

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Doesn't destroy your privacy if you stay off social media,

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do you use gmail? or google maps? if so better check those settings.

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The truest words are of the last sentence

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Agreed, once upon a time commuting to work was a great place to think and get your thoughts for the day together, that's gone along with a lot of other time once considered private. People say just turn it off, not that simple when bosses, customers, spouses, kids expect it to be on.