What 15 years can do to technology...

Technology never ceases to amaze me. I found a "Wired" magazine from January 1995 and as I flipped through it, I found some pretty incredible high-tech pieces. Fourteen years later, in 2009, these devices look like they were from the Stone Age. Where will we be 14 years from now? In 2023, I'll be 36... Will our current technology look as archaic as these?

One of my favorite quotes is very fitting:

"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." -Frances Burnett

















Six Shooter the Pioneer DRM-604x, quad-speed CD-ROM drive that holds six disks in a fast-spinning magazine.

$1,395-$2,495
















NEC's LCD 1280 monitor

Made to order! This "sleek" 13-inch LCD monitor has a crisp 24-bit display resolution of 1280x1024.

For the low, low price of... $11,755
















The NoteJet II 486 C

A color laptop with a bubble-jet printer built into the computer. Weighs under 10 pounds! $3,599 with a 340 MB hard drive.





















"AnthroCarts will knock your socks off!" And how can you resist that hairstyle??
















"If you want to see a full 8 1/2" x 11" page without scrolling, shrinking, or spending a lot of money, only the Portrait/15 Pivot makes sense."

$699
















Tektronix Phaser 140 Color Printer - 360 dpi

Starts at only $1,695
















"Beam into the ether with Magic Link, Sony's nifty pocket communicator."

"At $200, these things will be irresistible. And the built-in, low-cost modem, though easy to use, only whets the appetite for a built-in, low-cost cellular phone. When that comes - maybe in '96? - we're in PDA nirvana."

YES! CD-ROM.

Photos and descriptions from "Wired" Magazine, January 1995: 3.01.