+Ian Sandoval Yep cause I tuck my baby in from a video phone booth almost every night. LOL

+Ian Sandoval Well, that, and pay phones.

AT&T’s network enables all of these services, even if you’re not an AT&T customer, plus all of the current communication companies split off of AT&T when the government decided to split them up since they were a monopoly. Also, no one 25 years ago knew in the future they would always have a tablet or a smartphone with them... AT&T used a phone booth as an example to get the point of video calling across, since at the time phone booths were convenient and everywhere

Not really most of that stuff at and t actually does deliver in some way

That's mean

Liar

We send documents all the time digitally, we just don't call it "faxing" anymore. Though yes, the death of phone booths was a thing. We all got cell phones.

@@TitaniumDragon Unfortunately some industries do still rely on faxes. For some reason. And they go through all sorts of ridiculous contortions to make it still actually work. But mostly I was joking about how kids wouldn't have any reference point for any of those things that many of us grew up with.

It's all stuff they were working on back then.

Best comment.

@@milesaway1980 What does it mean

@@michaelwayneterry It is part of the closing monologue in blade runner. Considered one of the best in all of film.

Jon Neal ah, thanks

You will.

actually they did, bell labs which is owned by ATT invented the internet.

To be fair, all of this stuff was already in the pipelines back then in very early phases, but they did do a very good job of including almost nothing that didn't happen. Ironically, the only really "wrong" thing was the phone booths, and not because of the video part - it's because phone booths are obsolete.

I wonder if they could sue for stealing their ideas?

First carrier to support iPhone

They provided the wireless service. The kind of service that allowed other companies to develop all of these technologies on top of. People who can't grasp this implication shouldn't be allowed to use the word "irony". See: Irony, you dumbass.

Wellll, not so fast. Read the book "Thanks for being late" by Thomas Friedman.

Hope you got what you expected

Amazing 31 years later now

@@Traction311 oh wow, was like watching this ad yesterday...

+GreyFox405 Really, I doubt that.

+GreyFox405 Umm, no... AT&T's network carries the data that enables all of these services and they even provide several of them. lol

It is thanks to AT&T for as much as was implied.

Lol.

+Cameron S. Either 1984 or Escape from LA. Or maybe Running Man.

Well if you listen to ONE side... The world will be in chaos... Oceans will have risen several feet, there is no food, there's water shortages, pollution went rampant, and the U.S. is the target of every other nation. If you listen to the OTHER side... The U.S. will be the center of a movement that will get the world on its feet and begin the new age of technology with freedom and all at little cost. I know which one I'm hoping is right... :)

@@jeffreymontgomery7516 You mean the morons who killed a hundred thousand Americans by going into denial about a disease epidemic, and have made the world a much worse place? Yeah, that aged well. Also, FYI, it's the fake news networks that claim that people claim sea levels will rise several feet in 20 years. The present scientific projection is that we will see 0.6 to 2 meters of sea level rise by 2100 relative to 2000. Likewise, the "mass starvation" thing is bullshit; no one but the lunatic fringe claims that. Fake news networks try to claim that people "on the other side" make very outrageous claims on a regular basis to make themselves seem reasonable. The authoritarians like Trump, Putin, and Xi hate science and are completely in denial about reality. They need to be gone, along with all their supporters. Sadly, it's going to be a lot of work getting rid of all those people. The main reason why things get better is not magic, it's because people work to make a better tommorrow.

BLM and other shit

+RentAnEducation A place for Clark Kent.

+Mindchime Official That's the reason you never see him anymore.

A place in public used to masterbate

What's a fax?

It's a spacetime ship.

I think even a lot of us Gen X'rs don't even know where our office fax machine anymore (assuming we still have one). Fax machines are so 90's. I can't even remember the last time I saw one of those so called 'phone booths'...hahaha

mikefly562 That's because you're carrying the phone booth in your pocket. Sure they were inexact with some unimportant details, but overall the commercials are spot on.

+Andris Jansons If you can't figure out how to operate a fax machine I feel very sorry for you.

+Andris Jansons It seems silly now because we realized it makes more sense to keep it in digital form and print it off if the need arises, but that need is quickly dissipating.

You can thank director David Fincher for that.

edisonmonstera The more you know, I guess. Neat.

Yup, it all makes sense now!

Well blade runner also got a lot of stuff correct about the future

+Ben Willock It's where Superman used to change clothes. You know back before he discovered the Turkish Bath in the East Village

+9HighFlyer9 And those were long gone by 1993, the ones I saw Sunday weren't protecting YOU from the elements, they were protecting the phone, which was long gone. 3 of them within half a mile all Bell.

Erdogan is gay.

Alex Leon Careful, you might hurt his feelings! He's a delicate little flower

A place to masterbate.

+lkrnpk You ever want to see said Presidential candidate lose in a landslide of epic proportions? YOU WILL. And the country that will bring it to you...US of A. www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-unpopularity-20160401-story.html

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The future is now.