Yesterday, Paisano shared the following video on his Twitter account, and we just couldn’t resist sharing it with you also for what it teaches us about modern day computers.

While this may be funny to look back at now, it is startling in how close to correct they were. True, online shopping doesn’t involve a camera in a store, and you don’t write out emails on your “electronic correspondence machine”, but the basic ideas are all there for what you are reading this very article on now.

Why is this important to a blog about simplifying technology?  Can you imagine how overwhelming this would seem to someone watching it in 1969?  The idea that their lives would be overtaken by computer screens and monitors, letting them shop from home, print out documents, sending electronic letters to one another, banking online and so on?  Now think about how today’s technology seems overwhelming to you at times.

Get it yet?

All new technologies seem like something you’ll never grasp when they first appear, but later on they become so common place that you don’t even think about it.  Sure it can be scary when you first hear about them, but could you imagine life without the “electronic corrspondence machine” now?  Doubtful.

This video is a perfect example of why we started StarterTech.com, and that is try to make technology more accessible and a little less scary.